Photography Techniques

Karl Taylor has some essential tips that will keep you taking great photos even when there’s only a little bit of light in the sky.

Here are some tips on how you can control natural light in your photos.

Mike Browne returns with a new series of beginner guides. This time his focus is on lighting.

Mike Browne from PhotographyCourses.Biz explains how to use ISO.

10 tips to help you take macro shots that always impress.

5 quick ways to be more creative with your photos so you can produce more pleasing shots.

See why we believe a tripod is an essential tool for photographers shooting landscapes.

How to turn your quick sunset snap into something which packs a serious punch.

Mike Browne from PhotographyCourses.Biz explains how to make a manual exposure.

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

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.

Shooting photos in Times Square can be tough as David Clapp found out on his latest trip to America.

How to add stars to any night sky in Photoshop.

The effect of blurring the non-critical parts of an image helps separate the main subject from the rest of the foreground and background that might otherwise be found as distracting. Anthony Moringello shows us how to digitally create depth-of-field.

Advice on shooting the bridges that dominate our towns, cities and countryside.

You can dramatically alter the tones of a black & white photograph by placing coloured filters over the camera lens. It's all explained here.

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

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

Take your camera out and photograph the pictures painted by reflections on wet streets.

Learn how to shoot macro images of rain drops with the help of Edwin Brosens.

How to blend two images together in Photoshop.