Photography Techniques

10 tips from photographer Itai Danan you need to read before you head off on your holidays with your camera.

Holding a camera steady is essential if you want to make the most of your camera and lens quality.

Peter Bargh rounds up the gadgets that will help you move really close to your subject in this guide to macro gear.

Here are ten tips to help you improve your phone photography skills.

Here are 5 of ePHOTOzine's techniques all about camera supports.

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.

Find out why a flashgun is great for outdoor portraits.

Learn how to shoot lighthouse silhouettes for the next time you're heading off on holiday or on a day trip.

Here are a few things you should consider when buying and using a tripod.

Soon our fields will be awash with yellow and the colourful landscape can make for interesting imagery.

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.

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

Tips on shooting landscapes with brilliant skies.

Here's a simple technique to give your portrait photo a subtle hint of colour using the saturation setting of Paint Shop Pro X3.

We explain how to use fill-in flash

Don't let a messy background spoil your shot when you can replace it with your own.

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.

Stationary subjects are easier to photograph, aren't they? Well, not necessarily. Michael Jenkins gives an excellent beginners' guide to photographing Architecture.

Today is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day so here are a few tips to get you started in Pinhole Photography.

Michael Bates shows us how to use GIMP's Path tool to selectively colour an object.

How to blend two images together in Photoshop.