Photography Techniques

John Gravett shares his Tuscany Travel tips with ePz.

The clone tool's a great way to tidy up your image. Here's how you use it.

How to add extra stability to your tripod.

Make yourself a little photography project.

ePz member Duncan Simey shows us how to create drag zoom landscapes.

If you've visted the coast make sure you clean your tripod.

A portrait a day might not keep the doctor away but it will be interesting to look at!

See how taking your flash off camera can make a big difference to your pictures.

Tips on photographing Stately Homes.

How do you know your tripod's straight?

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.

Ever wondered how other people get their images published? Well there really isn’t any secret as Cheryl Surry explains.

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

Exhibiting isn't easy but Patricia Fenn has some words of advice to help.  

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.

An outdoor shoot means you can enjoy the fresh air and take some fantastic shots at the same time.

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.

To make sure eyes stay on your subject try adding blur to the background.

Having mastered the basic camera controls, you may want to become more creative with your camera. One easy way of doing this is by using different focal length lenses.

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

Author and photographer, Matt Bamberg shows us how to create a simple frame in Photoshop.