Photography Techniques

Make the most of your camera's built-in flash to get the best results from your photos.

Robin Whalley shows us how to create an infrared landscape in Photoshop.

High Key images are popular and easy to re-create in Photoshop.

Give images some drama in Photoshop by adding film grain.

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

Tone mapped HDR images are rarely perfect when the HDR program finishes with them. They can look flat, lack overall contrast, and can suffer from artifacts, ghosting and halos. Ferrell McCollough of www.beforethecoffee.com explains how to correct such problems.

Take one toy doll and add a photo of one of your family for this fun action figure collage using Photoshop.

Over the next three articles Dr Mike Ware describes three iron-based processes - new cyanotype, argyrotype and platino-palladiotype. They have the same working methods so, to avoid repetition, the equipment, materials and handling procedures you will need are described here first.

Use a small pocket torch to add interesting light effect to still life subjects

If you're dreaming of a White Christmas look no further. We show you how to create a snow scene using Photoshop

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.

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.

We try to shed a little light on Lightroom's Catalog to give new users a little more knowledge.

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

Have you used diagonal lines in your landscape shots? If not, here are a few reasons why you should.

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

Michael Bates shows us how to turn a person into stone and create a statue effect using the free image editing software, Gimp

Here's a round up of some of the top insect macro talent we have on site, in no particular order.

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.

Sending pictures by email is easy with a tiny amount of computer knowledge

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