Photography Techniques

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

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

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.

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

Site member Alley (AlleyCatz) shares her tips for shooting portraits at living museums and re-enactments.

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

When the Christmas lights go up you have a few weeks to get out there and use them in your photography.

We're starting portrait month with family portraits as they're photos everyone hangs on the wall.

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.

Andrew S Gibson shares his composition tips for shooting in a square format.

Damien Lovegrove tells us why you can making notes and having ideas may be good but it wont help your business if you don't act on them.

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.

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

Andy Warhol’s work features one of the most recognisable styles of print in the art world and his silk screen prints of stars as famous as Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor are iconic. Here Michael Bates recreates the effect for using the free image editing program, Gimp.

Running events are the perfect opportunity for you to capture some close-up, photographic action.

How to use Gradient Maps to create mono images in Photoshop.

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

Ways to take photos of children without expensive lighting or flash cameras

Want to shoot some monochrome landscapes? Take a look at this article.