Photography Techniques

Some people seem unaware that to take a great flower photograph you need just as much passion and skill as you do for portrait, landscape or wildlife photography. Here is a quick guide to show you how to take a great photograph of a flower or garden.

Tackle one of the most colourful subjects with the help of our nature expert, Jason Smalley.

The closer you look the more you'll see. Angelika Stehle suggests we add a new dimension to our flower photography.

Spend a day in a public garden and you'll have a memory card bursting with colourful flora in no time.

Peter Bargh takes a look at the fascinating world of macro photography.

Does everything that's in your frame need to be there?

a guide to wildlife photography on your doorstep

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.

Here's a round up of some of the ePz photographers who shoot good landscapes, and how they take their stunning shots.

By blending part of an image with itself you can create a cracking sky as this tutorial, by Robin Whalley, will show.

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.

Here's ePHOTOzine's guide for lenses in the landscape and a few tips on composition and depth of field.

Learn to take advantage of dark nights and produce great photos with Peter Bargh of ePHOTOzine.

Adding a frame to an image in Photoshop is easy and this tutorial will show you how to do it.

Our cities change appearance as the sun sets and it's a great time to shoot buildings.

Will Smith gives us a glimpse of the Photoshop Elements Liquify tool's potential to create some odd effects.

Attaching a neutral density filter to your camera lens will bring you several benefits, as Peter Bargh explains.

Ever taken a picture and realised it would look much better if only you could change the background? Here's how to do it using Corel's Paint Shop Pro.