The Hobby Photographer

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 [...]

Landscape Photography From a technical standpoint, landscape photography really shouldn’t be too much of a challenge. With only a few simple steps in the overall technique, most of us should be well on our way to shooting incredible landscape photos in no time. In practice though, without much experience in landscape photography, our results can be less [...]

I find that long and tall photos can be just awesome when printed and hung. I’m lucky enough to live close to one of Ken Duncan’s galleries, and I visit there regularly. There are always wonderful landscape photos that have been shot in portrait mode and printed on a massive scale, some of them measuring [...]