Photography Techniques

A picture is worth a thousand words, so make someone very happy on Mother's Day by giving her a new portrait or two and here's some advice on how to shoot it.

Here are a few tips on using your tripod safely on rugged terrain.

Dogs can make great subjects but they can be tricky to capture and work with. Here are a few tips to help you perfect your canine photography technique.

Unsure if you need a tripod in your life? This article will give you eight reasons why tripods are useful.

Here are some tips to help you capture the last blooms of snowdrops still decorating gardens across the UK as well as other small spring flowers.

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.

Learn how to turn fields of crops into interesting photos you'd be happy to have on your wall.

Enjoy the fresh, crisp air that winter has to offer and head out to shoot some mountainscapes.

Attaching a neutral density filter to your camera lens will bring you several benefits, as Peter Bargh explains.

Here is our top ten guide to photographing water, in all its forms.

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

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

Here's a quick tutorial which will show you how to use the Quick Mask Tool in Photoshop to make a selection.

Professional photographer Brett Harkness shares his ten top portrait photography tips with you.

Here we are going to learn how to replace the background of a photograph and correct the lighting so that the two images are seamlessly combined to recreate a special moment. Michael Bates is your tutor and he's using the free editing program Gimp

Stationary subjects are easier to photograph, aren't they? Well, not necessarily. Michael Jenkins gives an excellent beginners' guide to photographing Architecture.