Photography Techniques

Michael Jenkins gives some tips on correctly composing your photograph

Gavin Parsons gives an excellent introduction to underwater photography and some tips to get you started.

Chris Burfoot continues his excellent guide to getting the best results from studio lighting.

Taking pictures of images on a television screen is easy if you follow a few simple procedures. We tell you how to get good results from snapping TV screens here.

A simple technique that you can use to change the colour of part of an image without having to make tricky cutouts or complex selections.

Enhance your black & white pictures with a few simple adjustments in Photoshop Elements.

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

From sparkling rain to tranquil lakes, water provides a range of subjects allow our creative photography juices to flow.

Load up your camera with infrared film and shoot the world in a whole new light.

Some images lend themselves to selective toning and here's a good example of what can be achieved.

These ten tips will get any beginners on track to making impressive photos.

Learn how to fill the frame with a small bird that's just a dot to the naked eye. It's all done with a digital camera attached to a spotting scope.

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.

The various resizing options in Photoshop are looked at by Peter Bargh of ePHOTOzine.

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

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

Using layers to make a quick composite image of balloons

Here are ten tips on how to use and what to shoot with a telephoto lens.

Here's a basic introduction on what the brush tool is and what it can be used for.

Add a halo shadow effect around your still life subject to make it more three dimensional and appear to leap off the background. It's just like using a ring flash.

Matt Thompson has a quick piece of advice on creating hard and soft light indoors.

How to give your images a pop of colour in Photoshop.

Professional portrait photographer Rossella Vanon shares her top tips for taking better portraits.