Photography Techniques

A close up still-life technique to take rainbow-colour photos of soap bubbles.

Backgrounds aren't always given as much attention as they should.

Want to take a photo that's good enough to eat? Have a look at our ten food photography tips.

Still Life photography provides a fine opportunity to learn about composition and lighting.

Create a splash and be ready to be surprised with the photographic result.

Make the most of the autumnal shades and have a go at some close up work with leaves.

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

Don't let a bad weather forecast put you off shooting landscapes this October.

A car is something most of us now use everyday but have you ever thought about using it as an object for photography? Well three photographers who specialise in car photography have some advice and pointers about this type of work.

Combine the cross polarisation plastic technique with close ups of ice to create multi-coloured patterns.

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.

When you take infrared photographs with a digital camera in the normal colour shooting mode they are processed with a red colour cast. Here's how you remove the cast using Gimp.

Learn how to shoot macro images of rain drops with the help of Edwin Brosens.

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.

When you've taken a portrait and the background lets it down, there's only one thing to do and that's remove it. This tutorial will show you just how easy it is to remove the background from an image and create a new one.

Our cities change appearance as the sun sets and it's a great time to shoot buildings.

We show you how adding a vignette to a portrait or wedding photo can really improve the look of your image.

See how a hand-held light meter will help you get better exposures, even if you are using a digital camera.

Photography teacher, JP Pullos shows you how to create blurry backgrounds in your photos.

learn what high key and low key lighting is.

Photographer Taylor Mathis shows how different types of light will change the look of your food photography.