Photography Techniques

How to use your digital camera's autobracketing mode to create perfect exposures.

Michael Bates shows us how to use the curve tool to control the exposure and colour of an image.

Learn to take advantage of dark nights and produce great photos with Peter Bargh of ePHOTOzine.

Norman Koren explains why you should learn how to use your camera's meter and the Zone system to make your photos stand out from the crowd

Dr Mike Ware's comprehensive guide to Cyanotype printing

Using variable contrast papers will save you loads of money while you're learning to print and can also improve your creativity as you become more experienced.

Jesus Coll shows how learning to master exposure times and dodging and burning will help you produce fine art prints.

Robin Whalley shows us how to create a HDR image.

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.

David Clapp shares his tips on taking and processing infrared photographs.

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.

All you need to know to get close to your subject

learn what high key and low key lighting is.

Take your camera along to the zoo for some close up animal photography.

Here are some tips on how you can control natural light in your photos.

How to create a low and high key vignette in Photoshop.

Here are ten pieces of advice to help you take better photos in low light.

Here are a few tips for photographers looking to shoot images with more feeling.

Taking photographs in fog can add intrigue to an image but it's not always easy to do. This article aims to help you with this photography challenge.

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.

Puffins make great characters for portraits so why not head to the coast and spend an hour or two photographing these popular sea birds.