Lenses and Optical Items Photography Techniques

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

We explain why it's good to pack a polariser when you're going on holiday.

A teleconverter will seriously enhance your lens's pulling power, so are ideal accessories for nature and action photographers.

Get adventurous with your camera settings.

David Clapp shows us how to adapt manual focus lenses for digital cameras.

You can dramatically alter the tones of a black & white photograph by placing coloured filters over the camera lens. It's all explained here.

If you have a zoom lens with a manual zoom ring you can adjust it as you take the photograph and create interesting effects.

Peter Bargh explains what polarising filters are, how they work and provides a series of tips to get the best out of them.

Having mastered the basic camera controls, you may want to become more creative with your camera. One easy way of doing this is by using different focal length lenses.

Optical filters can make all the difference to your pictures, especially when you shoot on transparency film, as Mike Busselle explains.

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

Michael Bates shows us how Layers can be used in GIMP.

Zooming in with a telephoto and picking on detail is fun to do.

A 'rust fix' is something John Gravett likes to have every once in a while. Here he explains how you can shoot successful rust shots without too much effort.

Lean how to add watermarks to images in GIMP.

If you have to take photographs in the middle of the day make sure you make your own shade.

Michael Bates show us how to create a frosted glass border in GIMP.

David Clapp shares his tips on taking and processing infrared photographs.

If you take your camera to your local park you'll find plenty of interesting objects to photograph.

How to plan a photography walk and what to take with you.

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

Having mastered the basic camera controls, you may want to become more creative with your camera. One easy way of doing this is by using different focal length lenses.

Peter Bargh explains what polarising filters are, how they work and provides a series of tips to get the best out of them.

You can dramatically alter the tones of a black & white photograph by placing coloured filters over the camera lens. It's all explained here.

If you have a zoom lens with a manual zoom ring you can adjust it as you take the photograph and create interesting effects.

Optical filters can make all the difference to your pictures, especially when you shoot on transparency film, as Mike Busselle explains.

We explain why it's good to pack a polariser when you're going on holiday.

Get adventurous with your camera settings.

A teleconverter will seriously enhance your lens's pulling power, so are ideal accessories for nature and action photographers.

David Clapp shows us how to adapt manual focus lenses for digital cameras.

Having mastered the basic camera controls, you may want to become more creative with your camera. One easy way of doing this is by using different focal length lenses.

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

Peter Bargh explains what polarising filters are, how they work and provides a series of tips to get the best out of them.

You can dramatically alter the tones of a black & white photograph by placing coloured filters over the camera lens. It's all explained here.

David Clapp shows us how to adapt manual focus lenses for digital cameras.

Optical filters can make all the difference to your pictures, especially when you shoot on transparency film, as Mike Busselle explains.

We explain why it's good to pack a polariser when you're going on holiday.

A teleconverter will seriously enhance your lens's pulling power, so are ideal accessories for nature and action photographers.

If you have a zoom lens with a manual zoom ring you can adjust it as you take the photograph and create interesting effects.

Get adventurous with your camera settings.