Photography Techniques

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

Robin Whalley's tips on shooting in the city after the sun has set.

Head out to the coast at night for a unique spin on the traditional coastal images.

Here are 10 of the most popular night photography tutorials ePHOTOzine has posted.

Here are a few tips to help you take better photos of a balloon night glow.

John Gravett explains why photographers need to get out at night more.

Here are a few tips and ideas for shooting photos of urban areas.

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.

Want to shoot some night shots in the city? Have a read of this first.

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!

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.

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

A guide to UV protection by Ken Seal

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.

How to use the Adjustment Brush in Lightroom to make selective adjustments to your images.

Here are five popular tutorials on urban photography ePHOTOzine have published on site.

We take a reader's picture and show how to improve it.

Learn to take advantage of dark nights and produce great photos with Peter Bargh of ePHOTOzine.

Trees looks great in Autumn but you don't have to wait until then to photograph them.

Learn how to make selections in Photoshop with the Quick Selection tool.

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.