Photography Techniques

A guide to each tool of one of the most used image editing program on the planet

We list 5 ways you can quickly improve / fix your shots when you're back infront of your computer.

The concept of high dynamic range processing has been around since 1997, but has started to increase pace in the digital photography world. Peter Bargh explains what it's all about and how you use it.

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.

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

We explain how you can take great photographs of tadpoles in a pond.

All you need to know to get close to your subject

Karl Taylor has some essential tips that will keep you taking great photos even when there’s only a little bit of light in the sky.

In this guide we share some tips to make the most of steam railway photography.

When you've got your sunset don't think you have to pack your kit up and head home.

Andy Warhol’s work features one of the most recognisable styles of print in the art world and his silk screen prints of stars as famous as Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor are iconic. Here Michael Bates recreates the effect for using the free image editing program, Gimp.

Create pinhole camera style photographs using Photoshop

From sparkling rain to tranquil lakes, water provides a range of subjects allow our creative photography juices to flow.