The Hobby Photographer

7 fast action photography tips 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.

Taking Photos of Lightning 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 [...]

Photos of Sunsets I just love taking photos of sunsets. In fact, it was taking photos of sunsets that inspired me to learn more about photography. My wife and I were enjoying our honeymoon on the western coast of Fiji, and each day was topped off with a spectacular scene as the sun fell behind [...]

Long Exposure Photography Long exposure photography techniques can be used to obtain many different special effects. One that I hear people ask about regularly is how to achieve “milky water”. This effect is often seen on landscape photos of streams, waterfalls or beaches, where the majority of the scene looks perfectly normal, but the water [...]

Night Photography Have you ever seen night photography? Those dark, artistic looking photos that seem to overlook a road or freeway but instead of cars, there are red and white streaks of light drawn across the frame that seem to disappear into the blackness? Have you ever wondered what these photos are of or how [...]