Photography Techniques

Photoshop's Motion Blur can be used to add some speed to a moving vehicle. Here we use the Gradient tool on a layer mask to recreate a Cokin Speed filter effect.

Load up your camera with infrared film and shoot the world in a whole new light.

Waterfalls are popular landscape subjects but they can be tricky to capture. Here's our advice to make the job that bit easier.

By using two polarising filters - one at the light source and one on the camera - spectacular images can be created from clear plastics.

If you have a zoom lens with a manual zoom ring you can adjust it as you take the photograph and create interesting effects.

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.

Having a little knowledge about how the camera's shutter speed works can help you obtain pictures with more impact.

You don't have to keep the same aspect ratio when saving and printing pictures. Sometimes an unusal format can enhance a photo. Peter Bargh prepares to stretch the format.

Want to add a starburst to your Christmas lights? This is how you do it.

Stationary subjects are easier to photograph, aren't they? Well, not necessarily. Michael Jenkins gives an excellent beginners' guide to photographing Architecture.

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.

Today it's the turn of the arctic tern as we list a few tips on how to photograph them.

Taking photographs in fog can add intrigue to an image but it's not always easy to do. This article aims to help you with this photography challenge.

How to make objects in layers take on the shape of objects in lower layers

How to use the Unsharp Mask Tool to improve your photos.

When you've taken a portrait and the background lets it down, there's only one thing to do and that's remove it. This tutorial will show you just how easy it is to remove the background from an image and create a new one.