Photography Techniques

Photographer Taylor Mathis shows how different types of light will change the look of your food photography.

High-speed photography is really no different from other types of still-life photography. Simon Butcher's recipe for success is to control all the elements of the shot so that it is consistent and repeatable.

Tips on better exposure and lighting when photographing black people in the studio.

You can create great studio portraits with limited facilities and a little thought.

Shooting different lengths in portraits affects how the image is composed and perceived, as Duncan Evans explains.

Is there such thing as the wrong weather for photography? John Gravett finds out.

Ways to take photos of children without expensive lighting or flash cameras

ePHOTOzine user, Jason Bennett, explains how to create fantastic smoke trails using a simple indoor set-up.

Professional portrait photographer Rossella Vanon shares her top tips for taking better portraits.

Holly Knowles shares five of her top glamour photography tips for inspiring glamour photographers.

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.

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

A complete guide to photographing snow and ice by ePHOTozine's Peter Bargh. Learn how to expose and compose in our winter months.

Gary Hickin Shows you how to set up and shoot a still life.

Ian Cook describes the difficult work a Crash Scene photographer does.

Joe Roberts says that wide field fixed tripod astrophotography is the simplest form of astrophotography. It's the ideal starting point, because it takes only basic equipment, and even first timers can get very nice results!

You don't have to venture very far to find some water to photograph.

How to exaggerate the size of Speedlites.

Here we are going to learn how to replace the background of a photograph and correct the lighting so that the two images are seamlessly combined to recreate a special moment. Michael Bates is your tutor and he's using the free editing program Gimp

John Gravett shares his tips and advice on photographing birds during the winter.

Looking to learn photography? Here's our top five ways to do just that.