Photography Techniques

Here are a few tips on how you can create blurry backgrounds with a compact camera.

You don't have to be into the digital imaging world if you want to create bizarre color images. Darkroom enthusiasts have been doing it for years with Colorvir. </B><br>

See why not everything needs to be sharp all of the time in your shots.

Robin Whalley's tips on shooting in the city after the sun has set.

Fungi are flourishing at this time of year so get ready to get down and dirty in search of a few species.

Here's some hints and tips on shooting wildlife with a compact camera.

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

To some graveyards are spooky locations, but to photographers they offer masses of shooting potential. Pete explains why.

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

Go for a short walk in search of symmetrical lines of trees.

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.

Vignettes are a simple yet subtle way to guide the eye through a shot and here are four ways to create one.

Here's another roundup of some of the great landscape talent we have on the site.

Tips on looking for and shooting patterns in architecture.

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.

Take better photos by following these basic photography rules.

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.

Jeff Cable shares his advice on shooting sport photography.

This tutorial will show you how to remove objects in Photoshop with the Clone tool.

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

Next time you are at the coast get your camera out and photograph a lighthouse.