Photography Techniques

When and why do you need to use a tripod? Find out in our list of quick tips and shooting advice.

How and why should you use longer lenses for taking photos.

Want to know what kit you need for a photo walk? Take a look at this article that has a few handy tips too.

See what there is to photograph within one mile of your home.

If you don't live near the coast or countryside don't worry! You can still shoot landscapes.

Photography tips for those travelling Abroad this summer.

Holding a camera steady is essential if you want to make the most of your camera and lens quality.

Tackle one of the most colourful subjects with the help of our nature expert, Jason Smalley.

Spend some 'golden' hours at the coast and capture some amazing photography.

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.

We explain how to use fill-in flash

Use Photoshop Elements to make your images look like they were taken on old plastic camera.

Music festival photography tips for those who don't have photography/press passes.

The Horse and its Human is his latest project and here he talks ePHOTOzine through some of his techniques he uses when out shooting for this particular series.

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.

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

How to photograph oil on water with a basic set up to create abstract images.

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.

Light is not always what it seems. Peter explains about colour temperature.

Peter Bargh explains what polarising filters are, how they work and provides a series of tips to get the best out of them.