Photography Techniques

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

Fun, kids portraits look great on the wall.

Here are a few conker photography ideas.

Find the ideal hyperfocal distance to ensure your landscape images are sharp throughout.

David Clapp shows us how to adapt manual focus lenses for digital cameras.

Nathan Gallagher gives ePHOTOzine some tips for capturing snowboarders.

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

How to add a sky to a photo of a lighthouse using Photoshop.

See how creating a Photoshop Action can save you time when performing regular and mundain image editing tasks.

Sunrise can be one of the most beautiful natural spectacles to photograph. Here's our handy beginner's guide to to taking some stunning pictures of them.

Being in complete control of your results helps ensure better photographs. One way is to process your own C41 colour films.

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.

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.

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

How to create the look of a medium format contact print with slightly rough edge in GIMP.

“You have 15 minutes to shoot the CEO. Get ready.” How would you photograph the CEO of a large corporation for a magazine? Creative director Clive Branson shared his secrets of portrait photography.