Photography Techniques

Light painting or drawing is a photographic technique some photographers are finding very addictive and ePHOTOzine spoke to a couple of light junkies to find out more about it.

Damien Lovegrove talks to us about money, tax returns and VAT.

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

If you're heading to a festival this year to take some pictures you're going to need much more than just your wellies and a tent.

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

15 tips you should consider when taking photographs at a zoo.

Robin Whalley shows us how to create an infrared landscape in Photoshop.

Today we are photographing forgotten and abandoned buildings.

We're focusing our attention on photographing ducks, geese and swans today.

Here's an explanation on what tripod heads are available and what they are good for.

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.

How to turn your quick sunset snap into something which packs a serious punch.

If you're off to a festival or carnival try shooting in monochrome.

Here we show you a simple lighting technique that can be used on a number of still life subjects.

Will Cheung shares his poppy photography advice.

Here's some things you should know about digital zoom before choosing a digital or advanced compact.

Creating cut outs in textured images is easy with an image editing program that has layers. Here Peter Bargh shows you how it's done using Paint Shop Pro.

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.

Using layers and Motion Blur filter to create a sense of speed.

Here's a quick overview on what the Color Pickers is for and how it can be used.