Photography Techniques

Why using the human form or another familiar object is a simple way to add scale to your shots.

Want letters after your name? Here's a useful guide to help you pass

The coastline around the UK has several piers jutting out towards the sea. As well as providing amusements for the kids and hosting the local entertainment, they can provide fascinating subjects for photographers.

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.

Tom McGahan extols the virtues of shooting landscapes in black & white

Stained glass windows are colourful and prime target for great photographs. In this article Peter Bargh explains the common problems and offer ways to help you improve your chances.

Aidan O'Rourke demonstrates how you can combine two images for better quality.

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

“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.

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.

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.

Here are some of the techniques we've featured on site that you need quick shutter speeds for.

Russ Barker, takes us on a scenic tour of the American Southwest Slot Canyons and explains all you need to know to get a good set of photos.

A Photoshop tutorial on improving foggy shots.

Want to know what kit you need for a photo walk? Take a look at this article that has a few handy tips too.

ePHOTOzine member Garr8 shares a few quick tips on taking abstract photos of oil and water.

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

How to use wide-angle lens distortion creatively.

Trees looks great in Autumn but you don't have to wait until then to photograph them.

Bridges come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, plus they are everywhere so you are seriously spoilt for choice on this day.