Photography Techniques

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

Exhibiting isn't easy but Patricia Fenn's back with some advice to help you out.

Anyone can take a picture of a person but to take a really great picture of someone takes practice, patience and a little bit of know how. We spoke to three professional portrait photographers to see what tips they have for taking better portraits. Here's part one.

From sparkling rain to tranquil lakes, water provides a range of subjects allow our creative photography juices to flow.

Joe Roberts says that wide field fixed tripod astrophotography is the simplest form of astrophotography. It's the ideal starting point, because it takes only basic equipment, and even first timers can get very nice results!

Optical filters can make all the difference to your pictures, especially when you shoot on transparency film, as Mike Busselle explains.

Making a colour ring around is one of the best things you can do if you are trying to master colour printing. Peter Bargh explains.

As well as allowing you to copy un-replaceable images, a slide duplicator can also be used as a digital input deviceand much more

David Clapp shows us how The Nikon 14-24 Lens on a Canon 1DsIII can be used for landscapes.

One of the most fascinating and rewarding areas of photography is shooting close-up and macro studies. Small may be beautiful, but Steve Bavister shows you how to make it big. using photos by Peter Bargh.

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.

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.

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

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

Peter Herbert shows us an alternative method of cropping, with some unique benefits.

How to make a digital photo look like a Polaroid in Photoshop.

With every increasing zooms on compact cameras and the affordability of digital SLRs, the world of fast cars is open to everyone, as Duncan Evans explains.

Learn how one photographer uses focus stacking to produce images of water droplets.

Create a splash and be ready to be surprised with the photographic result.

Paul Hobson is a wildlife photographer and lecturer of environmental science at Sheffield college and here he gives ePHOTOzine a few pointers about how we can make our wildlife photography the best.