Photography Techniques

Learn how to shoot flowers in a way that'll make your shots stand out from the crowd.

Is the British weather letting you down again? Well, we have some ideas to keep you busy indoors.

Here's ePHOTOzine's guide for lenses in the landscape and a few tips on composition and depth of field.

Take your camera into a hot climate and you're bound to encounter problems. This collection of invaluable tips from Jack Jackson will help you avoid potential disasters whether in a dust storm in a Mediterranean holiday resort or on an African Safari.

Here's our guide to photographing Silver Birch trees during autumn.

Destruction and dereliction isn't necessarily a bad thing.

How to make sure your focal point draws the viewer's attention.

Alan Graham of AnD Creations wildlife libraries shares his experience at underwater photography in this useful technique guide

In part four of our beginners guide to nature photography Ian Andrews looks at what can be achieved using specialist lenses.

From sparkling rain to tranquil lakes, water provides a range of subjects allow our creative photography juices to flow.

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.

Sending pictures by email is easy with a tiny amount of computer knowledge

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

Here's a quick tutorial which will show you how to use the Quick Mask Tool in Photoshop to make a selection.

Once you grasp the basic principles of focusing your photographs will take on a whole new depth.

How to use Photoshop's Layer Masks to merge two images side by side, edge to edge.

How to take great close-up shots with your point-and-shoot.

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.

Puffins make great characters for portraits so why not head to the coast and spend an hour or two photographing these popular sea birds.

So, why do you need to know about Shutters and Apertures? Mike Browne from PhotographyCourses.Biz explains.

How to make objects in layers take on the shape of objects in lower layers