Photography Techniques

John Gravett shares his Tuscany Travel tips with ePz.

Most photographers have one or more favourite themes, a particular type of subject which attracts their eye. If you look through my filing cabinets it's not hard to identify mine, one in particular crops up time and time again - trees.

Here are ten situations when manual focus can work better than your camera's auto focus.

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.

Pick a location or just walk outside your house and see what interesting things there are to photograph a few minutes from your front door.

Peter walks you through stereo photography with the new Pentax Optio RS.

David Sharp shows us how to create a two tone photograph using Photoshop Elements

Here's a quick tutorial on creating a postcard in Photoshop.

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

Michael Bates tells us all about the Adjustment Layers that can be used to alter an image without actually changing the colour information of the original image.

Leading landscape photographers Mark Bauer & Ross Hoddinott share their top tips on shooting landscapes.

Doug Jackson explains why rain shouldn't stop you from taking photos.

Calibrating the monitor is the first, and perhaps the most important step in setting up a digital workstation.

If you're heading to the coast this summer spend some time shooting beach huts with our handy tips.