Photography Techniques

Michael Greccos explains some ideas to help you think more creatively when shooting portaits.

Matt Thompson has a quick piece of advice on creating hard and soft light indoors.

We're moving on from the first shoot to produce a different set of portraits with the same kit.

We're learning how to produce an image with low key lighting today.

Welcome to the first of five tutorials on using studio lighting.

An outdoor shoot means you can enjoy the fresh air and take some fantastic shots too.

With the days getting colder and the nights drawing in, Michael Alan Bielat takes us indoors to shoot some portraits.

Emma Cattell takes fashion photographs for the Daily Mirror. Here's how she does it.

A picture is worth a thousand words, so make someone very happy on Mother's Day by giving her a new portrait or two and here's some advice on how to shoot it.

This article by Edwin Brosens will give you some top tips on how to shoot fossils in the studio.

Here's ePHOTOzine's guide to photographing historical buildings.

Michael Bates shows us how Layers can be used in GIMP.

Zooming in with a telephoto and picking on detail is fun to do.

A 'rust fix' is something John Gravett likes to have every once in a while. Here he explains how you can shoot successful rust shots without too much effort.

Lean how to add watermarks to images in GIMP.

If you have to take photographs in the middle of the day make sure you make your own shade.

Michael Bates show us how to create a frosted glass border in GIMP.

David Clapp shares his tips on taking and processing infrared photographs.

If you take your camera to your local park you'll find plenty of interesting objects to photograph.

How to plan a photography walk and what to take with you.

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.

The famous high key effect is one of the most interesting, yet simple, effects you can achieve in digital photography

See how a hand-held light meter will help you get better exposures, even if you are using a digital camera.

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.

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.

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.

Chris Burfoot AMPA shows us how to set up studio lighting.

Here are five popular tutorials on urban photography ePHOTOzine have published on site.

How to photograph someone writing their name with a sparkler

Turn your bright sky into night with the help of Photoshop.

Bursting water balloons is fun to do and great to photograph.

There's as much skill required in organising groups at a wedding as there is sorting out exposure and composition. Our guide will help you become ringmaster

Robin Whalley's river photography tips.

Robin Whalley shares his travel photography tips.

Water drop images are great to look at and are quite easy to make. This tutorial will show you how to do it.

Create starburst filter effects with ease using Photoshop's custom brushes

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.