Photography Techniques

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

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

Have you ever wondered how photographers capture that crucial knock-out in the boxing ring? Well boxing photographer Steve Merry has the answers.

Photographer Edwin Brosens shares his wisdom on how to shoot wood ants effectively.

Pixels, resolution and compression expained.

Norman Koren explains why you should learn how to use your camera's meter and the Zone system to make your photos stand out from the crowd

Dr Mike Ware's comprehensive guide to Cyanotype printing

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

In this month's Photoshop Elements tutorial Peter Bargh shows you how to use one photograph of a sky to make a seascape style landscape.

An old Hollywood film trick to smooth skin tones was to film through a soft filter. Photographers of the stars have used the same trick. Here's how it's done digitally.

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.

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

See how a hand-held light meter will help you get better exposures, even if you are using a digital camera.

Blurring water is a popular technique that works really well in the right type of image.

How to add stars to any night sky in Photoshop.

Your garden can be the perfect place to photograph a windmill.

Winter's on the way which means the football season is well under way. Frank Reid and Sam Furlong give us their tips for capturing perfect match photographs.

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.

Here are five things you'll need to consider before heading out to photograph Puffins.

Is there such thing as the right camera when it comes to shooting landscapes? Robin Whalley gets his compact out to put this theory to the test.

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.