Join for FREE and you can:

"One-stop-shop online do-everything photographic site! A veritable Swiss Army Knife of a site, ePHOTOzine has everything a photographer could wish for"
Web User Magazine

437,000+ visitors a month
and 69,600+ members can't
be wrong!
(ABCe Accredited)

Join our free newsletter to be entered into our prize draw sponsored by BluBox.

[hide this message]

Photography Techniques

Browse By Category:

Submit your own technique here

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.

UV protection for your photos

A guide to UV protection by Ken Seal

Creating oil-effect paintings

Lack any kind of artistic ability but want to create oil-painting style portraits? You’ve come to the rig...

Portraits: What's in a Face?

“You have 15 minutes to shoot the CEO. Get ready.” How would you photograph the CEO of a large corporatio...

Creating a slide show with Windows Movie Make...

Windows XP comes with a small program called Windows Movie Maker that most photographers may not have rea...

8 Comments

Using a Softbox - studio lighting beginners' ...

A softbox is a useful studio light accessory that provides a wonderful soft light as Chris Burfoot AMPA A...

Have a Chemical Bath

No, it’s not an article on body disposal. Duncan Evans explains how to distress those lovely clean digita...

Using a Main and Fill light - studio lighting...

Chris Burfoot explains how to replace a reflector with a second studio flash to act as a controllable fil...

Photoshop CS3 Effects Template

Duncan Evans explains how to use Smart Objects and Smart Filters to create an effects template in Photosh...

7 Comments

Guide to Creating a Photoshop Action

Peter Bargh explains how creating a Photoshop Action can save you time when performing regular and munda...

Quick edges

Want to add a custom edge effect to your photo, but without the expense of buying a plug-in to do the job...

Browse By Category:

Submit your own technique here

First · Prev | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 | Next · Last