Photography Techniques

Find the ideal hyperfocal distance to ensure your landscape images are sharp throughout.

Tony Prower, better known on ePHOTOzine as the Happy Ostrich, explains how you to take photos of the Northern Lights.

John Gravett returns with more exposure advice this time we're looking at multiple exposures.

The effect of blurring the non-critical parts of an image helps separate the main subject from the rest of the foreground and background that might otherwise be found as distracting. Anthony Moringello shows us how to digitally create depth-of-field.

Photographs taken with a digital camera very often only need a series of small changes to significantly improve them. Using Photoshop 6 let's show you what we mean with the image below.

Photoshop's Gradient tool explained.

Peter Bargh provides an all-inclusive guide to developing your first black and white film.

Pixels, resolution and compression expained.

Richard Ross shows how to apply those familiar camera exposure techniques in the darkroom

A comprehensive pictorial guide to the Platino-Palladiotype process with Dr Mike Ware

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.

You don't have to venture very far to find some water to photograph.

Recreate those olde-worlde sepia photographs using image editing software. Peter Bargh is your guide.

Sometimes landscapes can be a little on the cool side but a quick photo filter can sort them out.

Get outside and photograph tulips with the help of these few tips.

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

How to use Photoshop's lasso selection tools.

Get in close and focus your attention on faces.

Struggling to capture that picture perfect Puffin? Are your subjects flying out of frame before you've clicked the shutter button? If so, you need Joe Kellard's help.

How to use Photoshop Elements to remove dust and scratch marks from your old photographs.

Martin Jordan braved the crowds of fashionistas for catwalk photography and a report for ePz!