Photography Techniques

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.

Interior designer, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, shares some hot tips

An alternative method to Photoshop's Unsharp Mask for image sharpening

ePHOTOzine member, Takui Neko shows us how to use Photoshop's Crop and Measure tools.

In part four of our beginners guide to nature photography Ian Andrews looks at what can be achieved using specialist lenses.

By assigning "tags" or attributes – keywords, ratings, dates and captions to images – photographers can categorize and organize their content.

Duncan Evans explains how to shoot landscapes as abstract images.

Shooting different lengths in portraits affects how the image is composed and perceived, as Duncan Evans explains.

Michael Bates uses Paint Shop Pro X2 to put a watermark on an image.

Here's part 2 of the professional photographers advice on weddings.

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.

Make selections quickly with the Magic Wand tool.

A tripod is an essential part of an arsenal carried by any travel and nature photographer so you need to make sure you have the right one.

Blurring water is a popular technique that works really well in the right type of image.

Learn how to turn fields of crops into interesting photos you'd be happy to have on your wall.

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

Here we are going to learn how to replace the background of a photograph and correct the lighting so that the two images are seamlessly combined to recreate a special moment. Michael Bates is your tutor and he's using the free editing program Gimp

Here's a list of what gear and techniques will help you capture better shots of foxes.

Are you bored with images that have plain, straight edges? John Pearson shows Photoshop users how to create interesting effects of their own using Layer Masks. The method provides control so that the effect can be bold or subtle according to taste.

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

See how daylight and a few utensils can help you create interesting photographs.