Photography Techniques

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

Here are 5 tutorials that list long lenses as an essential item.

Here are ten tips on how to use and what to shoot with a telephoto lens.

John Gravett finds out if switching to a longer lens is better than using a convertor.

Long exposure landscapes don't just have to be of the sea as Karl Taylor explains.

Tips on using long exposures to add some creative blur to the sea.

A useful guide to what situations lens hoods are most useful in.

How to create toy model type photos using a tilt lens effect in Gimp

Mike Browne is back sharing his knowledge with beginners. This time he has tips on lenses and focal lengths.

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

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.

Taking a photo of yourself levitating in mid-air or crawling up the walls is easier than you think and this article will let you in on the secret of how to do it.

Puffins make great characters for portraits so why not head to the coast and spend an hour or two photographing these popular sea birds.

Will Smith gives us a glimpse of the Photoshop Elements Liquify tool's potential to create some odd effects.

When it rains should you put your camera away? Well, read on and you'll soon be saying no.

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

Take your attention away from the face and focus on hands.

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.

So, why do you need to know about Shutters and Apertures? Mike Browne from PhotographyCourses.Biz explains.

All you need to know to get close to your subject

Here are a few tips on photographing Poinsettias during the festive season.