Photography Techniques

Stuck for something to photograph? Enter into a domain of colour and its rich tapestry of patterns and textures

Peter Bargh explains what polarising filters are, how they work and provides a series of tips to get the best out of them.

You don't have to be into the digital imaging world if you want to create bizarre color images. Darkroom enthusiasts have been doing it for years with Colorvir. </B><br>

Consider taking photographs each day for a whole year as a project to keep your photography alive.

Style guru Wayne Hemingway uses an Epson printer to make hats for special events. This simple seven step guide will help you make your own designer hat!

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.

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

Follow David Clapp's humorous exposure blending tutorial to learn the art of blending.

ePHOTOzine spoke to portrait photographer Michael Alan Bielat to see how he lights portraits.

Mark Humpage is a stormchaser and photographer. Here's his advice on time lapse weather photography.

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.

In this book extract, we take a look at modifying tones based on ranges of luminance.

For those new to Lightroom, here's a quick introduction to the workspace.

This year's Cowes Week has started and it's a great place for a spot of photography.

Andrew S Gibson shares his composition tips for shooting in a square format.

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.

Once you grasp the basic principles of focusing your photographs will take on a whole new depth.

If you plan on visiting a church on your holidays here are a few photography tips to help you out.

See how the Histogram can be used to help you improve your photos.

Find the ideal hyperfocal distance to ensure your landscape images are sharp throughout.

Over the next three articles Dr Mike Ware describes three iron-based processes - new cyanotype, argyrotype and platino-palladiotype. They have the same working methods so, to avoid repetition, the equipment, materials and handling procedures you will need are described here first.