Photography Techniques

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.

Learn how a zoom lens can help you create unusual images that have a sense of speed and movement or an abstract feel.

Five ways to use foreground interest to make a better landscape.

Shoot some different types of water shots and have a go at capturing some water bubbles.

Learn how to shoot lighthouse silhouettes for the next time you're heading off on holiday or on a day trip.

Have you used diagonal lines in your landscape shots? If not, here are a few reasons why you should.

Here's ePHOTOzine's guide to photographing historical buildings.

While rain has a habit of spoiling a day's photography, it can also be used to create interesting abstracts.

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.

Peter Bargh takes a look at the fascinating world of macro photography.

A digital imaging technique using Photoshop 6 to apply to colour images, to reproduce the effects created when coloured filters are used with a monochrome film.

Using layers and Motion Blur filter to create a sense of speed.

Peter Bargh mistreats a black & white film while processing to create an interesting reticulation effect.

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

Collections are a great way to manage and organise images in Lightroom once you know how to use them.

To make sure eyes stay on your subject try adding blur to the background.

Adding a frame to an image in Photoshop is easy and this tutorial will show you how to do it.

Paul Hobson is a wildlife photographer and lecturer of environmental science at Sheffield college and here he gives ePHOTOzine a few pointers about how we can make our wildlife photography the best.

Shoot some different types of water shots and have a go at capturing some water bubbles.