Photography Techniques

David Tarn gives an account of the benefits of medium-format, including some examples.

Light has many moods and if you want to take better pictures Steve Bavister suggests you need to learn how to make the most if it.

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.

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.

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

Here is our top ten guide to photographing water, in all its forms.

Here's a quick tutorial which will show you how to use the Quick Mask Tool in Photoshop to make a selection.

See how a subtle change to a portrait can makes a huge difference to its appearance. Here’s how to do it.

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.

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

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

Taking your kids to a museum this summer? Well here's a few tips to improve the photos you take in museums.