Photography Techniques

Having mastered the basic camera controls, you may want to become more creative with your camera. One easy way of doing this is by using different focal length lenses.

Mark Humpage is a stormchaser and elemental photographer. Here's his advice on capturing the weather.

We catch a wave with surf photographer Jason Murray and learn a thing or two about surf photography.

Celebrate St George's Day with a spot of flag photography.

John Gravett of Lakeland Photographic Holidays shows us how to photograph standing stones.

Photographer David Clapps shares his advice on photographing city architecture.

Learn how to fill the frame with a small bird that's just a dot to the naked eye. It's all done with a digital camera attached to a spotting scope.

Playing with the sharp end - an insight into a shoot with bull sharks. Gavin Parsons goes underwater and photographs dangerous sharks with a 15mm fisheye!

Photographer and author Linda Pitkin specialises in underwater photography and she spoke to ePHOTOzine about life under the ocean waves.

Chris Hanley is a professional wedding and portrait photographer who has a few tips for photographers thinking about venturing into wedding photography.

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.

Get outside and photograph tulips with the help of these few tips.

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.

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

We try to shed a little light on Lightroom's Catalog to give new users a little more knowledge.

Why not have a go at photographing portraits from quirky angles?

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

Find out why you should spend some time photographing rivers.

Create pinhole camera style photographs using Photoshop

Vignettes are a simple yet subtle way to guide the eye through a shot and here are four ways to create one.

Denise Ippolito shows us how to take great shots of flower petals with a lightbox and some simple post processing.