Photography Techniques

Tackle one of the most colourful subjects with the help of our nature expert, Jason Smalley.

Mike Browne is back sharing his knowledge with beginners. This time he has tips on lenses and focal lengths.

Discover some simple techniques to master an advanced subject with the assistance of professional motorsports photographer, Mike Veglia .

Optical filters can make all the difference to your pictures, especially when you shoot on transparency film, as Mike Busselle explains.

Want some basic tips on how to photograph buildings? Take a look at this article.

The Cheltenham Racing Festival is on this week so now seems the perfect time to try some horse photography.

Here's ePHOTOzine's guide to photographing historical buildings.

Tone mapped HDR images are rarely perfect when the HDR program finishes with them. They can look flat, lack overall contrast, and can suffer from artifacts, ghosting and halos. Ferrell McCollough of www.beforethecoffee.com explains how to correct such problems.

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.

Make selections quickly with the Magic Wand tool.

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

How to use a flatbed scanner more creatively.

How to use Photoshop's Dust and Scratch filter to improve your old photos.

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

An old Hollywood film trick to smooth skin tones was to film through a soft filter. Photographers of the stars have used the same trick. Here's how it's done digitally.

Ben Boswell shares his tips on shooting silhouettes.

Here's ten top ways to photograph trees this summer and throughout the rest of the year.

Create artistic shapes on paper in this traditional darkroom technique shared by Peter Bargh.

Find out why a flashgun is great for outdoor portraits.