Photography Techniques

Bruce Smith is a fashion photographer with over 30 years experience in the industry. His new book, Pro Digital Fashion Photography tells you everything you need to know to succeed in the fashion industry. Here he offers some advice about taking great fashion photographs.

With Winter getting ever closer, ePHOTOzine spoke to Chris Hanley about shooting outdoors and the equipment we'd need to make those portraits perfect.

Joe McNally asks: straight flash be ugly, right? Well here he demonstrates how this isn't always true.

This guide shows you how to make someone look great without them going under the knife!

Portrait photographer Michael Alan Bielat spoke to ePHOTOzine about photographing men and women.

Anyone can take a picture of a person but to take a really great picture of someone takes practice, patience and a little bit of know how. We spoke to three professional portrait photographers to see what tips they have for taking better portraits. Here's part one.

“You have 15 minutes to shoot the CEO. Get ready.” How would you photograph the CEO of a large corporation for a magazine? Creative director Clive Branson shared his secrets of portrait photography.

The big day has arrived. Your model is due any minute and you are all ready to shoot - or are you?

Here's part 2 of the professional photographers advice on weddings.

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.

So, why do you need to know about Shutters and Apertures? Mike Browne from PhotographyCourses.Biz explains.

You don't have to venture very far to find some water to photograph.

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.

When you paste an object into another picture make sure it looks like it belongs there by adding a shadow.

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

Award-winning photographer Simon Plant shows us how he created one of his images. See how he plans, shoots and edits his work.

Damien Lovegrove tells us how we can develop our craft to take that perfect picture.

A guide to UV protection by Ken Seal

Make selections quickly with the Magic Wand tool.

How to capture the action at a dog agility event.