Photography Techniques

Learn how to fill the frame with a small bird that's just a dot to the naked eye. It's all done with a digital camera attached to a spotting scope.

A fascinating underground world awaits your discovery. Find out what you need and how to shoot in the dark from a leading cave photographer.

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

A simple technique to combine a selection of photos using Photoshop to make a montage.

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

Barry Beckham takes a balloon shot, from the Bristol balloon festival and adds some fireworks using Photoshop.

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.

Aidan O'Rourke demonstrates how you can combine two images for better quality.

Aidan O'Rourke shows how to exclude elements that spoil the appearance or composition of the picture.

Making the decision of whether to throw-away or enhance an image on the mind of Photoshop expert Aidan O'Rourke.

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.

We try to shed a little light on Lightroom's Catalog to give new users a little more knowledge.

Robin Whalley's low light photography advice.

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.

Vignettes are a simple yet subtle way to guide the eye through a shot and here are four ways to create one.

Give images some drama in Photoshop by adding film grain.

Get out your macro lens and shoot a few floral abstracts.

Lightroom Collections has some powerful features for awesome photo organisation. Gain invaluable tips to help you sort your photos with our Lightroom user guide.

If you want to find a model but don't know where to start then this piece can help you out.

Chris Burfoot AMPA shows us how to set up studio lighting.

The famous high key effect is one of the most interesting, yet simple, effects you can achieve in digital photography