Photography Techniques

Shooting different lengths in portraits affects how the image is composed and perceived, as Duncan Evans explains.

“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.

With the days getting colder and the nights drawing in, Michael Alan Bielat takes us indoors to shoot some portraits.

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

Want to shoot some portraits outside? Take a look at these tips first.

Here's a round-up of some of ePHOTOzine's most popular portrait photography techniques.

Advice on how to shoot good summer portraits.

Professional photographer Brett Harkness shares his ten top portrait photography tips with you.

Find out why a flashgun is great for outdoor portraits.

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

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.

Learn what layer masks are and how to use them with the help of Robin Whalley.

Peter Bargh explains what polarising filters are, how they work and provides a series of tips to get the best out of them.

Kat Landreth from Pare & Focus shows how easy it is to whiten a dull background in GIMP.

When you've taken a portrait and the background lets it down, there's only one thing to do and that's remove it. This tutorial will show you just how easy it is to remove the background from an image and create a new one.

Here's a quick pro tip with advice on shooting close-up portraits.

Michael Bates shows us how to use GIMP's Path tool to selectively colour an object.

Edwin Brosens shares his tips on using flash when shooting macro work.

Calibrating the monitor is the first, and perhaps the most important step in setting up a digital workstation.

Learn how to create slideshows that will play on standard DVD players.

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