Photography Techniques

Ian Andrews continues his series to explain why a telphoto is a good choice for wildlife photography

In part four of our beginners guide to nature photography Ian Andrews looks at what can be achieved using specialist lenses.

Is the British weather letting you down again? Well, we have some ideas to keep you busy indoors.

Take your camera along to the zoo for some close up animal photography.

Ben Boswell shows you how you don't have to spend huge amounts of money to get great macro results.

Take your wide angle lens out with you and exaggerate the angles of your town.

Ben Boswell explains why bark's far from a boring subject.

Make the most of the autumnal shades and have a go at some close up work with leaves.

With the weather forecast predicting frosty mornings are on the cards, get out there and photograph it.

Vignettes are a simple yet subtle way to guide the eye through a shot and here are four ways to create one.

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 get great macro shots with the Tamron 90mm f2.8 SP DI macro lens - by Matt Berry.

Barry Beckham and David Rowley explain how layer masks work.

Give your modern photos a vintage twist in a few easy steps.

John Gravett's tips on focus stacking.

Why you need to pay particular attention to skin tone when shooting boudoir photography.

Get in close and focus your attention on faces.

Photographer David Clapps shares his advice on photographing city architecture.

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.

Martin Evening was recently given the honour of appearing in the Photoshop Hall of Fame. Here he shows us how to use the Content-Aware Scaling tool in Adobe Photoshop CS4.

Sometimes landscapes can be a little on the cool side but a quick photo filter can sort them out.