Photography Techniques

Peter Bargh suggests you try sepia toning your black & white prints to create a nostalgic feel.

It's not just about light and exposure, Alex Lee suggests gaining a rapport with your subject is essential if you want to take natural and relaxed portraits.

Mountaineer, diver, photographer, lecturer and author, Jack Jackson shares his wealth of experiences in this shark photography guide

Peter Bargh of ePHOTOzine shows you how to use your enlarger to straighten up the walls of a building that are suffering from converging verticals.

Barry Beckham's technique shows us how to spruce up a railway photo with a snazzy colour effect.

One of the most fascinating and rewarding areas of photography is shooting close-up and macro studies. Small may be beautiful, but Steve Bavister shows you how to make it big. using photos by Peter Bargh.

<br />Ariadne Van Zandbergen, a leading wildlife and travel photographer, shares a collection of tips to help you phoptograph people of Africa.

Peter Bargh shows you how to make a contact sheet of your black & white negatives.

Mark Graham looks at a technique to help you scan A3 images on an A4 scanner and then stitch them together using Satori image editing software.

Unless you have the insight of Mystic Meg you'll need to make a test strip to determine the correct exposure time when making an enlargement. Peter Bargh is your guide for this traditional darkroom technique.

Discover some simple techniques to master an advanced subject with the assistance of professional motorsports photographer, Mike Veglia .

Fun in the darkroom? Here Peter Bargh shows you how to lower the tone to create a posterised print

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.

Don't let a messy background spoil your shot when you can replace it with your own.

How to use Photoshop's Layer Masks to merge two images side by side, edge to edge.

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

Andy Warhol’s work features one of the most recognisable styles of print in the art world and his silk screen prints of stars as famous as Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor are iconic. Here Michael Bates recreates the effect for using the free image editing program, Gimp.

Vignettes are a simple yet subtle way to guide the eye through a shot and here are four ways to create one.

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.

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

Are you bored with images that have plain, straight edges? John Pearson shows Photoshop users how to create interesting effects of their own using Layer Masks. The method provides control so that the effect can be bold or subtle according to taste.

Create pinhole camera style photographs using Photoshop

Here Mark Galer explains one of the more sophisticated montage techniques available to Photoshop users that enables selective blending of pixels based on their tonal or colour value.