Action Photography - A race car captured while passing the photographer
When trying your hand at action photography, it can be hard to get reasonable results until you get some experience. Here are 7 quick tips to get you started with fast action photography so that you can start capturing some reasonable images right from the start.
Lightning Storm
I love taking photos of lightning. When I was young, my parents would take my sister and I away on summer Holidays. Most years, we’d stay at a small beach-side town just North of Newcastle on the NSW coast of Australia. One year, after we had settled in for a few days, I recall my Dad having some films developed. I had assumed that the photos were typical holiday shots but I was wrong. It turns out that somewhere between 2am and 4am the previous night, my Dad had heard a thunderstorm rolling in. He had gathered up his camera (a Ricoh 35mm SLR) and his Tripod, and had headed for the beach…