Photography Techniques

Running events are the perfect opportunity for you to capture some close-up, photographic action.

Here are a few tips on photographing dandelion clocks creatively.

Don't let a messy background spoil your shot when you can replace it with your own.

Learn how to shoot macro images of rain drops with the help of Edwin Brosens.

Trees looks great in Autumn but you don't have to wait until then to photograph them.

Here are some tips on how you can control natural light in your photos.

We try to shed a little light on Lightroom's Catalog to give new users a little more knowledge.

Puffins make great characters for portraits so why not head to the coast and spend an hour or two photographing these popular sea birds.

As the weather's nice make the most of it and head out into your garden with your camera.

Visit a birds of prey centre and shoot some interesting imagery with the help of these tips.

We explain how you can take great photographs of tadpoles in a pond.

Soon our fields will be awash with yellow and the colourful landscape can make for interesting imagery.

Why is it when we go on holiday and need a passport photo we rely on that robot booth to churn out automated pictures at a tune of over £3 per shot? Peter Bargh shows you how to shoot, prepare and print pictures for your passport with ease.

Having a little knowledge about how the camera's shutter speed works can help you obtain pictures with more impact.

Peter Bargh explains how you can use the valuable Layer Mask option of Photoshop to make better colour changes and selections, in this step by step image editing technique.

See how a hand-held light meter will help you get better exposures, even if you are using a digital camera.

The famous high key effect is one of the most interesting, yet simple, effects you can achieve in digital photography

The eyes are one of the most important parts of a portrait, and usually the first thing we notice. Therefore, a small amount of enhancement on the eyes can go a very long way to producing a portrait with real zing.

Once you grasp the basic principles of focusing your photographs will take on a whole new depth.

Attaching a neutral density filter to your camera lens will bring you several benefits, as Peter Bargh explains.

Photoshop expert, Terry Steeley, kicks off the first of a new series of tutorials for ePHOTOzine that looks at how to watermark our digital images to protect them from being used without our consent.

Chris Burfoot AMPA shows us how to set up studio lighting.

Being more selective with your views often leads to better landscapes. When taking landscapes George Standen suggests less is often more.

You don't have to keep the same aspect ratio when saving and printing pictures. Sometimes an unusal format can enhance a photo. Peter Bargh prepares to stretch the format.

Just as with portraits car photography is all about flattering the subject.

Photographer Delly Carr and Sony Europe have some tips to make your twilight photographs shine.

Tim Wallace works with famous car companies such as Jaguar. Here's how he got there.

Sending pictures by email is easy with a tiny amount of computer knowledge

How to photograph oil on water with a basic set up to create abstract images.

Learn more about backlighting about from Michael Freeman in this extract from his latest book.

Caves hold many secrets and amazing formations very few people have ever seen. Four cave photographers from different parts of the world tell ePHOTOzine how we can capture some of the amazing places hidden below our feet.

Kelly Rowland, Nuno Frade, Steve Sharp and Rob Eavis continue to tell ePHOTOzine how we can capture some of the amazing places hidden below our feet.