Photography Techniques

Get out your black backgrounds and photograph some flowers to hang on your wall.

Get out your macro lens and shoot a few floral abstracts.

Don't let a messy background spoil your shot when you can replace it with your own.

Shoot flowers in the style of ePz member cattyal.

Learn how you can easily shoot blooms with creative backgrounds.

How to photograph flowers with a simple point-and-shoot.

Jenny Brough studies flowers and their structure and with this she creates photographs.

In this article, ePHOTOzine member Janet Walters shares some of her flower photography secrets.

Take your camera to a garden centre and you'll have plenty to photograph.

Get a little closer to your subject and shoot some creative close-ups.

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.

With the help of Lightroom, photographers can add important information into their image files.

Heading off to photograph one of the many castles in the UK? Have a look at our tips first.

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

How to use Photoshop's lasso selection tools.

If everything in your shot looks like it's leaning to one side try straightening the horizon.

Peter Bargh of ePHOTOzine shows you how to use Photoshop's Color Range tool to change a background.

Turn your boring landscapes into interesting black and whites with this tutorial.

Learn how to take better snaps of your dog at the beach.

Paul Hobson is a wildlife photographer and lecturer of environmental science at Sheffield college and here he gives ePHOTOzine a few pointers about how we can make our wildlife photography the best.

Leading landscape photographers Mark Bauer & Ross Hoddinott share their top tips on shooting landscapes.