Photography Techniques

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

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

Nathan Gallagher gives ePHOTOzine some tips for capturing snowboarders.

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

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.

We list the ten most popular architecture photography techniques featured on ePHOTOzine.

Using a digital camera to take infrared pictures is much easier than the film method as we explain.

How to use Adobe Lightroom's Split Toning feature to recreate Cross Processing effects.

Learn how a zoom lens can help you create unusual images that have a sense of speed and movement or an abstract feel.

A 'rust fix' is something John Gravett likes to have every once in a while. Here he explains how you can shoot successful rust shots without too much effort.

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

Turn your boring landscapes into interesting black and whites with this tutorial.

We list 10 ways to stop distracting backgrounds spoiling your shots.

Motocross is an exciting, photogenic and accessible sport, so give it a go.

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.