Not being an expert photographer I still manage to get a lot of shots that simply do not cut the mustard ie they are not as sharp as I want them to be.
Now I know photographing wild birds is somewhat of a black art so you need all the help you can get.
In my search for perfection I came across a video on youtube called "The Ultimate Aperture Priority Hack !!!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTTGI6ZEsZM
The guy from Beyond Photography goes on to explain how to set your camera so that when in AV mode your shutter speed wont go below what you set it at, thinking this will be a big help I followed his instructions to set up a Canon camera to do this, it didn't work I couldn't figure out why, I tried it on 7dmk2 and 5dmk4 same result.
I then spoke to a pal of mine who said that the setting he was adjusting was only used for when you are using auto iso and that you need to set the minimum shutter speed in the custom settings tab in the menu.
So I tried that and hey ho spot on this setting works a treat, now if the camera cannot achieve the minimum shutter speed it just will not shoot at all which will mean an increase to the number of keepers with a bit of luck.
Two lessons learnt, not all on youtube is spot on and don't be afraid to ask even if it makes you look a bit of a numpty.
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