Photography Techniques

How to improve pictures you take of reflections in lakes.

Head to the coast when the holidaymakers aren't there and you'll find plenty of photographic opportunities.

See how a little bit of blur can create an autumn shot that's a little more arty but still recognisable.

Don't let a bad weather forecast put you off shooting landscapes this October.

If you're looking for a new way to shoot this colourful season a different way, have a read of these tips.

Halloween's just around the corner so here are a few tips to make your spooky shoot a success.

Here are a few exposure tips to help you capture the shades of Autumn.

Here's some top tips on shooting autumn macros with a compact camera.

Here's a few quick tips on why balancing landscapes is important.

In his latest article, Robin Whalley shows us how to use the Tone Curve tool in Lightroom.

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.

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.

Windows XP comes with a small program called Windows Movie Maker that most photographers may not have realised could be a useful tool. Peter Bargh shows you how it can be used as great tool for creating fun slide shows.

All you need to know to get close to your subject

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

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

See how a subtle change to a portrait can makes a huge difference to its appearance. Here’s how to do it.

Andy Warhol’s work features one of the most recognisable styles of print in the art world and his silk screen prints of stars as famous as Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor are iconic. Here Michael Bates recreates the effect for using the free image editing program, Gimp.

A graduated filter effect is fairly easy to add using your image editing program. We show you how to do that with Corel's Paint Shop Pro X2

How to add a gradient filter effect using Corel Paint Shop Pro X3.