Photography Techniques

Robin Whalley shows you how to convert your boring landscapes into monochrome masterpieces.

Mike Ellis shares his advice on shooting and producing HDR shots.

Adjusting White Balance with Lightroom will improve the colour balance of your digital photos.

Infra-red photography is a bit like Marmite you either love it or hate it and John Powell, the founder of the Infra-Red Photographic Society most definitely adores it. He started taking infra-red images in the eighties and here he tells ePHOTOzine why more people should be looking at the world in a way we can't usually see.

A carpet of red or a single bright flower, either way poppies are a wonderfully coloured, photographic subject.

Here's our guide to taking photos at the Appleby Horse Fair.

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.

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

You've taken the pictures now add a little bit of colour to your incense smoke images in Photoshop.

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

Chris Burfoot continues his excellent guide to getting the best results from studio lighting.

Today it's the turn of the arctic tern as we list a few tips on how to photograph them.

Peter Bargh of ePHOTOzine shows you how to use Photoshop's Color Range tool to change a background.

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

How to use Photoshop's lasso selection tools.

Windows XP comes with a small program called Windows Movie Maker that most photographers may not have realised could be a useful tool. Peter Bargh shows you how it can be used as great tool for creating fun slide shows.

This tutorial will show you how to fix the lighting in an outdoor photograph using GIMP's colour and sharpening tools while maintaining a natural end result.