Photography Techniques

An outdoor shoot means you can enjoy the fresh air and take some fantastic shots at the same time.

Everyone likes to look at the night sky so while you're staring at it you might as well photograph it too.

Take your camera into your local church to discover what photographic treats are hidden inside.

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

Shoot some different types of water shots and have a go at capturing some water bubbles.

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

Clean your windows and make use of the free light that falls through them.

Let your portraits tell a story by capturing some character.

Find out why a flashgun is great for outdoor portraits.

Wellies, cameras and tents at the ready as we prepare ourselves for music festival photography with the help of Gary Wolstenholme.

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.

Have you used diagonal lines in your landscape shots? If not, here are a few reasons why you should.

How many times have you taken a photo, then got home and realised there was something you missed seeing at the time spoiling the shot. It must have happened at least once, but with digital imaging tools like Paint Shop Pro it can often be easily fixed.

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.

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

Learn what layer masks are and how to use them with the help of Robin Whalley.

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.

We take a look at the Upright Tool which now features in Lightroom 5 Beta.

See how a hand-held light meter will help you get better exposures, even if you are using a digital camera.

See how long exposures can turn what can be described as ordinary into something much more interesting.

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.