Photography Techniques

Ideas and advice to improve your product photography.

Peter Bargh explains how ePHOTOzine test inkjet papers.

With the global economy struggling it is more important than ever to try and make more money. Well Michael Alan Bielat, a photographer from the US may just be able to help you earn a little bit more cash.

ePHOTOzine spoke to three professional portrait photographers to see what tips they have for taking better portraits. Here's part two.

David Cantwell shares some of his tips and tricks for great product photography.

We spoke to Chris Hanley to get a few tips for capturing those perfect family portraits.

Tone mapped HDR images are rarely perfect when the HDR program finishes with them. They can look flat, lack overall contrast, and can suffer from artifacts, ghosting and halos. Ferrell McCollough of www.beforethecoffee.com explains how to correct such problems.

The Horse and its Human is his latest project and here he talks ePHOTOzine through some of his techniques he uses when out shooting for this particular series.

Victor Habbick explains why getting out there can help your photography and your state of mind.

Learn why you need to be selling yourself from the very first conversation you have with your client.

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.

Ice makes an interesting photographic subject, as this article will show you.

Peter Bargh provides an all-inclusive guide to developing your first black and white film.

Learn more about the several modes that can help you with your photography.

Don't pack your gear up once you've captured your sunset as twilight can be just as rewarding.

The winter sun can help you capture some stunning landscapes. As this extract explains.

Learn how to capture beams of light bursting through trees.

In this follow up article we'll enhance our lightning photos using an image-editing program.

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

How and why should you use longer lenses for taking photos.

Tim Curtis loves all types of photography but his main love is with photographing what not many humans have photographed before. His great sense of curiosity means exploring caves are a favourite pastime and here he tells us why we shouldn't be afraid to try this dangerous hobby.