Photography Techniques

Bruce Smith is a fashion photographer with over 30 years experience in the industry. His new book, Pro Digital Fashion Photography tells you everything you need to know to succeed in the fashion industry. Here he offers some advice about taking great fashion photographs.

Karl Taylor's back to explain what high key and low key lighting is.

ePHOTOzine spoke to portrait photographer Michael Alan Bielat to see how he lights portraits.

Emma Cattell takes fashion photographs for the Daily Mirror. Here's how she does it.

Creating portraits with a fashion edge in the studio.

We're moving on from the first shoot to produce a different set of portraits with the same kit.

Here's ePHOTOzine's guide to photographing historical buildings.

Michael Bates shows us how Layers can be used in GIMP.

Zooming in with a telephoto and picking on detail is fun to do.

A 'rust fix' is something John Gravett likes to have every once in a while. Here he explains how you can shoot successful rust shots without too much effort.

Lean how to add watermarks to images in GIMP.

If you have to take photographs in the middle of the day make sure you make your own shade.

Michael Bates show us how to create a frosted glass border in GIMP.

David Clapp shares his tips on taking and processing infrared photographs.

If you take your camera to your local park you'll find plenty of interesting objects to photograph.

How to plan a photography walk and what to take with you.

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.

The famous high key effect is one of the most interesting, yet simple, effects you can achieve in digital photography

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

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.

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.

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.

Chris Burfoot AMPA shows us how to set up studio lighting.

A tripod is an essential part of an arsenal carried by any travel and nature photographer so you need to make sure you have the right one.

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

A technique growing in popularity is light painting and photographer Simon Plant has some advice for creating our very own light painted images.

How to use the gradient tool to add a digital rainbow to shots in Photoshop.

Part three of our four part series and kindly reproduced from the Procedures for Professional Imaging manual - aperture and shutter speed selection

Create starburst filter effects with ease using Photoshop's custom brushes

With every increasing zooms on compact cameras and the affordability of digital SLRs, the world of fast cars is open to everyone, as Duncan Evans explains.

Here's a fun trick to make your picture look like a jigsaw with some pieces missing.

Gary Hickin Shows you how to set up and shoot a still life.

If you want to create a shallow depth of field in your photographs but have not got the necessary equipment at the time, you can always recreate this effect later on using image manipulation software such as Gimp.