Photography Techniques

Here are ten pieces of advice to help you take better photos in low light.

Sean Arbabi shares his advice on nature photography and working with natural light.

Gavin Parsons gives an excellent introduction to underwater photography and some tips to get you started.

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

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

How to make your own 6 month duration images of the sun.

Why you need to pay particular attention to skin tone when shooting boudoir photography.

Mountaineer, diver, photographer, lecturer and author, Jack Jackson shares his wealth of experiences in this shark photography guide

The latest book in Terry Hope's <EM>Black and White Photography </EM>series deals with the perennial subject of the nude. In this extract, a selection of photographers talk about the techniques they have employed to produce their pictures.

Good equipment and technical knowledge are both important to taking strong wildlife photographs, but there are also a great many ways of improving your results that have less to do with cutting edge technology than with how you look through your lens, explains wildlife expert, Ariadne Van Zandbergen.

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.

Takui Neko shares his Photoshop blending skills

How to use Photoshop's lasso selection tools.

Philip Andrews uses Adobe entry-level image editing program, Elements, to tweak the pixels of some newly created pictures.

Lets look at taking a few pictures before we get off the plane.

Peter Bargh of ePHOTOzine shows you how to use Photoshop's Color Range tool to change a background.

Want to shoot some monochrome landscapes? Take a look at this article.

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

Site member Mark Davies (Enmark) shares his hare photography tips

Fungi are flourishing at this time of year so get ready to get down and dirty in search of a few species.

Adding a frame to an image in Photoshop is easy and this tutorial will show you how to do it.