Photography Techniques

Learn how to save your images for the web, with the best quality and smallest file-size.

Duncan Evans goes on a whirlwind tour of focal lengths when shooting portraits and explains what not to shoot.

The Cheltenham Racing Festival is on this week so now seems the perfect time to try some horse photography.

Photoshop's Zoom and Hand tools explained

This article provides an overview into the world of panoramic photography, focusing mainly on those areas that differ from other forms of photography.

Taking photos of landscapes at night provides us with a very magical view if you choose the time well. Our guide, Andrew Fleetwood, explains the dos and don't of lowlight landscape photography.

Gavin Parsons gives an excellent introduction to underwater photography and some tips to get you started.

In this series of articles using Paint Shop Pro we show you how to pimp up a Camper van and here we work on the wheel arches. Try following our technique and then using it to max up your car photos.

Michael Bates shows us how to create realistic simulated screen images.

In this series of articles using Paint Shop Pro we show you how to pimp up a Camper van and here we work on widening the tires. Try following our technique and then using it to max up your own car photos.

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.

Here are five simple ways you can stop camera shake creeping into your shots.

Adjusting White Balance with Lightroom will improve the colour balance of your digital photos.

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 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.

John Gravett's tips on focus stacking.

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

Simon Plant went to Paris and like any visitor he took plenty of photographs. Here he takes one of the images to show us how it can be edited in Photoshop.

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

How to maximise dynamic range within your photos using HDR exposure and Photomatix.

Is there such thing as the wrong weather for photography? John Gravett finds out.