Photography Techniques

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

Holding a camera steady is essential if you want to make the most of your camera and lens quality.

Peter Bargh demonstrates how to make an index print for your photos stored on CD or DVD.

Well all have old photos stashed away in shoeboxes. Here's a technique using MGI PhotoSuite 4 to repair damaged ones.

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

Barry Beckham turns an ordinary snapshot of a cafe into half cartoon.

Barry Beckham and David Rowley explain how layer masks work.

Photoshop's Crop tool explained

The various resizing options in Photoshop are looked at by Peter Bargh of ePHOTOzine.

Calibrating the monitor is the first, and perhaps the most important step in setting up a digital workstation.

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.

Learn how Lightroom can help photographers produce good quality prints from home.

Tackle one of the most colourful subjects with the help of our nature expert, Jason Smalley.

How to make a digital photo look like a Polaroid in Photoshop.

If you fancy a drive to the coast to take some photographs of lighthouses then Mike Hershberger is the man to talk to about it.

Here are some tips on how you can control natural light in your photos.

Here's a rundown of the top ten things that you can do to put a different perspective on your photography.

Peter Bargh mistreats a black & white film while processing to create an interesting reticulation effect.

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.

Taking photographs in fog can add intrigue to an image but it's not always easy to do. This article aims to help you with this photography challenge.

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