Photography Techniques

Russ Barker, takes us on a scenic tour of the American Southwest Slot Canyons and explains all you need to know to get a good set of photos.

Learn how to capture the hustle and bustle of busy towns and cities.

Give your digital images the Holga look with the help of Photoshop and Robin Whalley.

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

From the earliest known relic, some 8000 years old, to the latest metallic monstrosities, statues are waiting to be photographed.

Tips on better exposure and lighting when photographing black people in the studio.

Sean Arbabi shares his advice on nature photography and working with natural light.

Jonathan Beer is a photographer with a passion for products. Here he tells ePHOTOzine how we can improve our auction site images and make our irons look the best in town.

Stained glass windows are colourful and prime target for great photographs. In this article Peter Bargh explains the common problems and offer ways to help you improve your chances.

A quick budget way to light a wine glass with the edges highlighted.

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.

Making a photo selectively coloured has been conveniently termed colour popping. Here Ashley Price shows us how to do it in Corel's Paint Shop Pro image editing program.

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.

Lightroom has incredibly good image processing power and one of the star features is its HSL filtering for Hue, Saturation and Luminance in eight different colour ranges.

While rain has a habit of spoiling a day's photography, it can also be used to create interesting abstracts.

Takui Neko shares his Photoshop blending skills

We try to shed a little light on Lightroom's Catalog to give new users a little more knowledge.

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.

To make sure eyes stay on your subject try adding blur to the background.

How to stay safe, keep warm and still shoot some good landscapes during winter.