Photography Techniques

David Clapp swaps people for plants as he puts the Sigma 85mm f/1.4 to the test as a macro lens.

Colin Speedie, photographer and professional yachtsman, talks about the Shark Trust project and how the Canon EOS 1V helps him to achieve spectacular results.

Peter Bargh shows you how to take better still lifes which, for one, could help you with your ebay listings.

Behind the scenes with Miss Aniela on a photo shoot in Death Valley.

Not all blur is bad as you'll find out if you read this article.

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.

When you've taken a portrait and the background lets it down, there's only one thing to do and that's remove it. This tutorial will show you just how easy it is to remove the background from an image and create a new one.

Adding a frame to an image in Photoshop is easy and this tutorial will show you how to do it.

A guide to shooting our rocky landscape to create abstract patterns and textures.

Want to shoot some monochrome landscapes? Take a look at this article.

By using two polarising filters - one at the light source and one on the camera - spectacular images can be created from clear plastics.

How to produce a photo of the same person in various parts of the scene.

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

John Gravett is a landscape photographer who lives and works in the lakes so who better to ask for a few autumn photography tips.

How to give a photo a sepia tone using Adobe Lightroom.