Photography Techniques

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

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.

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

See how a hand-held light meter will help you get better exposures, even if you are using a digital camera.

How to photograph oil on water with a basic set up to create abstract images.

Duncan Evans explores the new mono-conversion filter in the latest version of Photoshop.

Make selections quickly with the Magic Wand 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.

Edwin Brosens shares his tips on using flash when shooting macro work.

How to use the Adjustment Brush in Lightroom to make selective adjustments to your images.

Soon our fields will be awash with yellow and the colourful landscape can make for interesting imagery.

Converging lines and verticals don't always have to be avoided as we explain here.