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Site member Alley (AlleyCatz) shares her tips for shooting portraits at living museums and re-enactments.

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.

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

How to photograph someone writing their name with a sparkler.

Damian McGillicuddy's sharing his secrets on shooting fine art nudes.

Venture into the insects world with a few helpful tips and tricks from our specialist wildlife photographer Peter Madeley

Learn how to create a simple frosty frame in Photoshop.

Using a digital camera to take infrared pictures is much easier than the film method as we explain.

Jousting's a popular event at historical reenactments and it makes great pictures too.

Soon our fields will be awash with yellow and the colourful landscape can make for interesting imagery.

15 tips you should consider when taking photographs at a zoo.

Why using the human form or another familiar object is a simple way to add scale to your shots.
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