Photography Techniques

Dr Mike Ware gives us a complete run down on the alternative processes including Platinotype, Cyanotype and Chrysotype.

Mike Upstone explains how to make the most of available light when shooting weddings.

Part three of our four part series and kindly reproduced from the Procedures for Professional Imaging manual - aperture and shutter speed selection

There's as much skill required in organising groups at a wedding as there is sorting out exposure and composition. Our guide will help you become ringmaster

Some of the most successful wedding photos are taken when the bride, groom or guest are not aware.

Here Mark Galer explains one of the more sophisticated montage techniques available to Photoshop users that enables selective blending of pixels based on their tonal or colour value.

Learn how to save your images for the web, with the best quality and smallest file-size.

Peter Bargh shares a quick tip showing how you can make a selection from an area that's in the shade.

Infra-red photography is a bit like Marmite you either love it or hate it and John Powell, the founder of the Infra-Red Photographic Society most definitely adores it. He started taking infra-red images in the eighties and here he tells ePHOTOzine why more people should be looking at the world in a way we can't usually see.

Keywording is something all photographers should be doing but not all do. Here three keywording specialists and two professional photographers who use the system successfully talk to ePHOTOzine about this confusing subject.

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.

Photographer Lara Jade shares her advice on finding your own style.

How to make a digital photo look like a Polaroid in Photoshop.

How to use the Adjustment Brush in Lightroom to make selective adjustments to your images.

See how you can quickly remove a background from a photo with Photoshop's Magic Eraser Tool.

Karl Taylor has some essential tips that will keep you taking great photos even when there’s only a little bit of light in the sky.

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

In this guide we share some tips to make the most of steam railway photography.

learn what high key and low key lighting is.

How to turn your quick sunset snap into something which packs a serious punch.

See how long exposures can turn what can be described as ordinary into something much more interesting.