Photography Techniques

Taking your kids to a museum this summer? Well here's a few tips to improve the photos you take in museums.

Have you ever wondered how photographers capture that crucial knock-out in the boxing ring? Well boxing photographer Steve Merry has the answers.

Bruce Smith is a fashion photographer with over 30 years experience in the industry. His new book, Pro Digital Fashion Photography tells you everything you need to know to succeed in the fashion industry. Here he offers some advice about taking great fashion photographs.

John Gravett of Lakeland Photographic Holidays shares his tips on shooting glass.

Mike Browne returns with a new series of beginner guides. This time his focus is on lighting.

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.

Michael Bates shows us how to remove imperfections and improve an image in Gimp.

Venture into the insects world with a few helpful tips and tricks from our specialist wildlife photographer Peter Madeley

Blurring water is a popular technique that works really well in the right type of image.

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.

Puffins make great characters for portraits so why not head to the coast and spend an hour or two photographing these popular sea birds.

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

A technique growing in popularity is light painting and photographer Simon Plant has some advice for creating our very own light painted images.

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

Learn how to clone, heal and repair your images to create perfect pictures.