I said I'd do better than this!

But today's shot was just an excuse to try out Canon’s Remote Capture software. I set up the camera in the conservatory, linked via USB to the iBook laptop in the dining room. Setting the camera up disturbed the doves so I had to wait an hour or so before they returned, where from warmth of the dining room I could pic my moments and snap away with the space bar. BTW it was another dark grey rainy day, I had to use ISO 800 just to get a half respectable shutter speed.

Notes on Canon remote capture.

i. Obviously with a DSLR there’s no on screen viewfinder.
ii. There’s no way to wake the camera via the USB link, so turn off the standby mode.
iii. Download takes an age, and you can’t fire the shutter while an image is downloading.

Other than that, it’s great and I was actually editing in Photoshop while waiting for the next bit of action - try that with film!