Photography Techniques

Edward Byrne shows us how you can bring your memories stored away on slides into the digital world.

Summer's here and flowers are blooming so it's a great time to obtain colourful pictures of gardens and parks. But before you nip out, consider our alternative approach.

Once you grasp the basic principles of focusing your photographs will take on a whole new depth.

Are you looking for a subject you can photograph without leaving your garden? Well take a look at Ladybirds.

Peter Bargh rounds up the gadgets that will help you move really close to your subject in this guide to macro gear.

If you plan on visiting a church on your holidays here are a few photography tips to help you out.

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 reasons why you should give black & white photography a go.

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.

Try your hand at time lapse photography.

Peter Bargh shows you how to take better still lifes which, for one, could help you with your ebay listings.

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

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.

Here are five tutorials to help you perfect your low light photography technique.

Barry Beckham explains how to use Photoshop's Pen tool to make advanced selections around objects in a photo.

Motion blur is a great way to add some energy to your images. It's also good for creating slow sync flash effects as the Chris Robinson, design editor of UKs leading Digital Photo magazine, reveals here.

Improve your flash pictures by getting the flashgun off your camera and firing it remotely with a slave.