Photography Techniques

Tony Prower, better known on ePHOTOzine as the Happy Ostrich, explains how you to take photos of the Northern Lights.

Here's a quick round-up of just some of the top waterfall photographers on ePHOTOzine.

Tackle one of the most colourful subjects with the help of our nature expert, Jason Smalley.

Here are some tips to help you capture the last blooms of snowdrops still decorating gardens across the UK as well as other small spring flowers.

How to create Spirograph photos using a torch and your camera's long exposure mode.

Here's a round up of some of the ePz photographers who shoot good landscapes, and how they take their stunning shots.

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

Wondering what shutter speed will give you the best waterfall image? Have a read of this.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Here's a round up of some of the top insect macro talent we have on site, in no particular order.

Attaching a neutral density filter to your camera lens will bring you several benefits, as Peter Bargh explains.

Dr Mike Ware's comprehensive guide to Cyanotype printing

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.

This article lists some simple tips you can use to make your photos stand out.

A technique growing in popularity is light painting and photographer Simon Plant has some advice for creating our very own light painted images.