Photography Techniques

David Clapp swaps people for plants as he puts the Sigma 85mm f/1.4 to the test as a macro lens.

This tutorial will show you how to use Christmas lights to add interest to your indoor portrait shots.

Tips on producing great gig images in low light.

David Clapp shows us how to adapt manual focus lenses for digital cameras.

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.

Once you grasp the basic principles of focusing your photographs will take on a whole new depth.

Shooting different lengths in portraits affects how the image is composed and perceived, as Duncan Evans explains.

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

Want to take a photo that's good enough to eat? Have a look at our ten food photography tips.

Here are ten pieces of advice to help you take better photos in low light.

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.

Improve your flash pictures by getting the flashgun off your camera and firing it remotely with a slave.

Windows XP comes with a small program called Windows Movie Maker that most photographers may not have realised could be a useful tool. Peter Bargh shows you how it can be used as great tool for creating fun slide shows.

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.

Today it's the turn of the arctic tern as we list a few tips on how to photograph them.

Tips on photographing this popular summer sport.

Pick a location or just walk outside your house and see what interesting things there are to photograph a few minutes from your front door.

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

You can create interesting images by simply moving several images into one document as this tutorial will show you.

Here are five popular tutorials on urban photography ePHOTOzine have published on site.

Should landscapes always be shot in the landscape orientation? Ben Boswell finds out.