Photography Techniques

If you have a zoom lens with a manual zoom ring you can adjust it as you take the photograph and create interesting effects.

Joe Roberts says that wide field fixed tripod astrophotography is the simplest form of astrophotography. It's the ideal starting point, because it takes only basic equipment, and even first timers can get very nice results!

John Gravett shares his tips on reversing lenses to create ultra close ups.

Having a little knowledge about how the camera's shutter speed works can help you obtain pictures with more impact.

We take a reader's picture and show how to improve it.

Mark Elliott shows you how to choose a focussing method that enables you to focus precisely.

Ted Byrne shares his tips on capturing birds in flight.

As well as allowing you to copy un-replaceable images, a slide duplicator can also be used as a digital input deviceand much more

In part four of our beginners guide to nature photography Ian Andrews looks at what can be achieved using specialist lenses.

David Clapp shows us how The Nikon 14-24 Lens on a Canon 1DsIII can be used for landscapes.

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.

Light is not always what it seems. Peter explains about colour temperature.

Is your model not wearing the right shade of lipstick? Well this tutorial will show you how to add a new colour with the help of GIMP.

See how a hand-held light meter will help you get better exposures, even if you are using a digital camera.

Using a digital camera to take infrared pictures is much easier than the film method as we explain.

Sending pictures by email is easy with a tiny amount of computer knowledge

Once you grasp the basic principles of focusing your photographs will take on a whole new depth.

All you need to know to get close to your subject

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

Leading landscape photographers Mark Bauer & Ross Hoddinott share their top tips on shooting landscapes.

Turn the humble vegetable into a piece of art with a few simple steps.