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Does everything that's in your frame need to be there?

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.

Photographer Lara Jade shares her advice on finding your own style.

See how easy it is to change the colour of an object in Photoshop.

Sending pictures by email is easy with a tiny amount of computer knowledge

Christmas markets are starting to pop up across the country and they're a great photographic opportunity.

Fun in the darkroom? Here Peter Bargh shows you how to lower the tone to create a posterised print

The big day has arrived. Your model is due any minute and you are all ready to shoot - or are you?

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.

Shoot some different types of water shots and have a go at capturing some water bubbles.

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

Don't let a messy background spoil your shot when you can replace it with your own.
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Gary Wolstenholme reviews this bright telephoto prime lens from Carl Zeiss, the Apo-Sonnar T* 135mm f/2.
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