Photography Techniques

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

Ten Tips for taking better autumn photos with your compact camera.

Mike Browne, from PhotographyCourses.Biz, has a new series to share with you. This time it's on composition.

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.

Mark Humpage is a stormchaser and photographer. Here's his advice on time lapse weather photography.

A simple technique to combine a selection of photos using Photoshop to make a montage.

Damien Lovegrove tells us why having a plan when shooting a wedding is a very good idea.

Leading landscape photographers Mark Bauer & Ross Hoddinott share their top tips on shooting landscapes.

How and why should you use longer lenses for taking photos.

Here Mark Galer explains one of the more sophisticated montage techniques available to Photoshop users that enables selective blending of pixels based on their tonal or colour value.

To make sure eyes stay on your subject try adding blur to the background.

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.

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.

Peter Bargh takes a look at the fascinating world of macro photography.