Photography Techniques

David Clapp shows us how The Nikon 14-24 Lens on a Canon 1DsIII can be used for landscapes.

Many cameras have a built-in flash which can be used in more creative ways than you may think as we explain.

Summer's here and flowers are blooming so it's a great time to obtain colourful pictures of gardens and parks. But before you nip out, consider our alternative approach.

Anyone can take a picture of a person but to take a really great picture of someone takes practice, patience and a little bit of know how. We spoke to three professional portrait photographers to see what tips they have for taking better portraits. Here's part one.

Robin Whalley shares his city photography tips.

Gary Wolstenholme explains why he thinks there is no "best" equipment when it comes to taking pictures at concerts.

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

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.

Here's ten top ways to photograph trees this summer and throughout the rest of the year.

Advice on how to shoot good summer portraits.

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.

Here are five tutorials that'll help you take better photos this summer.

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

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.

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

Trees looks great in Autumn but you don't have to wait until then to photograph them.

How to use Photoshop's Layer Masks to merge two images side by side, edge to edge.

David Clapp shares his tips on taking and processing infrared photographs.

John Gravett returns with more exposure advice this time we're looking at multiple exposures.

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

You can dramatically alter the tones of a black & white photograph by placing coloured filters over the camera lens. It's all explained here.