Photography Techniques

Here are ten situations when manual focus can work better than your camera's auto focus.

Kat Landreth shows us what's new in GIMP 2.8 and shows us the features not to be missed.

A fascinating underground world awaits your discovery. Find out what you need and how to shoot in the dark from a leading cave photographer.

Michael Bates shows us how to remove imperfections and improve an image in Gimp.

Robin Whalley shows us how to use Healing Tools in Photoshop.

Light painting or drawing is a photographic technique some photographers are finding very addictive and ePHOTOzine spoke to a couple of light junkies to find out more about it.

Tony Prower, better known on ePHOTOzine as the Happy Ostrich, explains how you to take photos of the Northern Lights.

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

Barry Beckham shows us how to use Photoshop's Clone tool

Here's a round up of some of the ePz photographers who shoot good landscapes, and how they take their stunning shots.

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.

Tips on shooting landscapes with brilliant skies.

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

Get up early and take some shots of morning dew.

Barry Beckham shows us how to use Photoshop's Clone tool

John Gravett shares his tips and advice on photographing birds during the winter.

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

John Gravett of Lakeland Photographic Holidays shares his wide angle photography tips with ePz.

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

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

Gary Hickin Shows you how to set up and shoot a still life.