Photography Techniques

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

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

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.

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.

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

David Clapp shows us how The Nikon 14-24 Lens on a Canon 1DsIII can be used for landscapes.

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

This article provides an overview into the world of panoramic photography, focusing mainly on those areas that differ from other forms of photography.

Creating cut outs in textured images is easy with an image editing program that has layers. Here Peter Bargh shows you how it's done using Paint Shop Pro.

Takui Neko shows you how to recreate colour infrared results digital without needing to use specialist film or processing

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.

Here are a few tips on photographing dandelion clocks creatively.

This tutorial will show you how to add more punch to a sky in a photograph.

Paul Charlton explains how we can tint photos that can be varied at a later date without affecting the original Using Curves Adjustment Layers.

learn what high key and low key lighting is.

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.

Michael Bates shows us how we can create reflections in GIMP.

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

See how a little bit of blur can create an autumn shot that's a little more arty but still recognisable.

Many cameras have a built-in flash which can be used in more creative ways than you may think as we explain.