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Photography Techniques
Welcome to our Techniques Area
So you've got the camera, you have the accessories, you've read the manual... but the practical process of photography or photo editing is still largely a mystery. Welcome to the Techniques section of ePHOTOzine where we'll demist your foggy photographic windscreen and make everything clear. From focal lengths and fill-flash to Hollywood portraits, using metering and shooting classic cars there's techniques for everyone. There are also cover photo editing techniques showing how to create speed, grainy black and white, add creative edges, replace backgrounds and more.
Hot Techniques
Latest Techniques
Bird Photography
Struggling to capture that picture perfect Puffin? Are your subjects flying out of frame before you've clicked the shutter button? If so, you need Joe Kellard's help.
3 steps to better photos
Joe Kellard has three easy steps which will help you on your way to photography success.
Winter portraits
With the days getting colder and the nights drawing in, Michael Alan Bielat takes us indoors to shoot some portraits.
How to start your first exhibition - part two
Exhibiting isn't easy but Patricia Fenn's back with some advice to help you out.
Spirograph style torch art
How to create Spirograph photos using a torch and your camera's long exposure mode
15 essential zoo photography tips
A selection of 15 essential tips that you should consider when taking photographs at a zoo
Capturing water drops
Water drop images are great to look at and are quite easy to make. This tutorial will show you how to do it.
How to start your first exhibition - part one.
Exhibiting isn't easy but Patricia Fenn has some words of advice to help.
Simon Plant's light painting advice
A technique growing in popularity is light painting and photographer Simon Plant has some advice for creating our very own light painted images.
Taking good photographs in bad weather
Travel Photographer and writer Ian M Butterfield visited Rome to shoot buildings and blue skies. Unfortunately the weather had other ideas. In this feature Ian shares his top tips on what to do when the weather turn...
Autumn landscapes
Shawn Soderstrom may live on the opposite side of the world but he still has Autumns worth photographing. Here he tells us why we should make the most of Autumn colours.
Tilt lens effect using Photoshop
How to create toy model type photos using a tilt lens effect in Photoshop
Skydiving photography
Fancy jumping out of a plane with a parachute and a camera? ePHOTOzine member, Mike Murphy is the man to speak to about it.
Child portrait techniques
Even though the new school term has started it doesn't mean all child portraits have to be taken by the school photographer.
