Photography Techniques

If you're heading to a festival this year to take some pictures you're going to need much more than just your wellies and a tent.

Take a look at a showcase of work produced by some of the top flower photographers on ePz.

Advice on how to shoot good summer portraits.

Russ Barker, takes us on a scenic tour of the American Southwest Slot Canyons and explains all you need to know to get a good set of photos.

Reflections are every where so why not make the most of them?

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

Barry Beckham guides you through steps in Photoshop to turn a snapshot of a car into a buffed showroom delight.

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.

In part 6 of our series of articles using Paint Shop Pro showing you how to pimp up a Camper van we work on changing the wheel rims. Try following our technique and then using it to max up your own car photos.

Take better photos by following these basic photography rules.

10 tips to help you take macro shots that always impress.

Lean how to add watermarks to images in GIMP.

Putting three photos in to a triptych in Photoshop is really quite simple, as you'll see in this tutorial.

If you want to create a shallow depth of field in your photographs but have not got the necessary equipment at the time, you can always recreate this effect later on using image manipulation software such as Gimp.

Kat Landreth from Pare & Focus shows how easy it is to whiten a dull background in GIMP.

Here are some of the techniques we've featured on site that you need quick shutter speeds for.

Attaching a neutral density filter to your camera lens will bring you several benefits, as Peter Bargh explains.

Here's a quick tutorial which will show you how to use the Quick Mask Tool in Photoshop to make a selection.