Photography Techniques

Ted Byrne shares his tips on capturing birds in flight.

John Gravett finds out if switching to a longer lens is better than using a convertor.

A teleconverter will seriously enhance your lens's pulling power, so are ideal accessories for nature and action photographers.

Ted Byrne shares his tips on photographing Hummingbirds.

ePz member Duncan Simey shows us how to create drag zoom landscapes.

Anyone can take a picture of a person but to take a really great picture of someone takes practice, patience and a little bit of know how. We spoke to three professional portrait photographers to see what tips they have for taking better portraits. Here's part one.

Take your camera out in town to photograph the flora that will soon be decorating the streets.

Reflections are every where so why not make the most of them?

If you're heading to a festival this year to take some pictures you're going to need much more than just your wellies and a tent.

Here is a round up of just some of the top motorsport and car photographers found on ePHOTOzine.

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.

As the weather's nice make the most of it and head out into your garden with your camera.

How to blend two images together in Photoshop.

Here are our top 10 tips to consider when asked to photograph your first wedding.

We take a look at the various rating and organisation methods available in Lightroom.

How to create a digital graduated filter effect.

learn what high key and low key lighting is.

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

Andrew S Gibson shares his composition tips for shooting in a square format.

Give your modern photos a vintage twist in a few easy steps.

How to make a digital photo look like a Polaroid in Photoshop.