Photography Techniques

Third in a short series of advanced darkroom printing techniques by Eddie Ephraums

ePHOTOzine user, Jason Bennett, explains how to create fantastic smoke trails using a simple indoor set-up.

A quick fire collection of ten photography tips to help you with your new camera.

If you’ve ever wondered how they make cars look as good as they do in magazine adverts, then here we will learn how to get a good deal of the way towards creating a professional-looking advert for a car of your choice.

Although fog can serve a purpose in photography, there are also times when it detracts from the quality of the image instead of enhancing it. Michael bates looks at a way to clean up your digital fog shots using Gimp.

A graduated filter effect is fairly easy to add using your image editing program. We show you how to do that with Corel's Paint Shop Pro X2

Michael Bates shows us how to add a frade edge and sepia tone to our images.

If you like vibrant colours in your work then learning about colour fringing is something you should definitely do.

Gary Hickin Shows you how to set up and shoot a still life.

Make your own Christmas card with your own photos in Photoshop.

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.

A guide to UV protection by Ken Seal

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.

Michael Bates shows us how Layers can be used in GIMP.

Takui Neko shares his Photoshop blending skills

Taking pictures of images on a television screen is easy if you follow a few simple procedures. We tell you how to get good results from snapping TV screens here.

You can dramatically alter the tones of a black & white photograph by placing coloured filters over the camera lens. It's all explained here.

Motion blur is a great way to add some energy to your images. It's also good for creating slow sync flash effects as the Chris Robinson, design editor of UKs leading Digital Photo magazine, reveals here.

Get in close and focus your attention on faces.

Pick a location or just walk outside your house and see what interesting things there are to photograph a few minutes from your front door.

Here's a simple technique using your image editing program to turn a colour or back& white photograph into a silhouette.