Photography Techniques

“You have 15 minutes to shoot the CEO. Get ready.” How would you photograph the CEO of a large corporation for a magazine? Creative director Clive Branson shared his secrets of portrait photography.

Light has many moods and if you want to take better pictures Steve Bavister suggests you need to learn how to make the most if it.

Some people seem unaware that to take a great flower photograph you need just as much passion and skill as you do for portrait, landscape or wildlife photography. Here is a quick guide to show you how to take a great photograph of a flower or garden.

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.

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

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

Give images some drama in Photoshop by adding film grain.

Learn to take advantage of dark nights and produce great photos with Peter Bargh of ePHOTOzine.

How to take great photos for the holiday album before you've even stepped off the plane.

Consider taking photographs each day for a whole year as a project to keep your photography alive.

Here's how you can fix converging verticals in the free photo editing software GIMP.

Learn how to take better snaps of your dog at the beach.

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 shows you how to make your pictures like line drawings using lith film in this traditional darkroom technique.