Photography Techniques

Some top tips for using the scene modes on your camera.

Gary Wolstenholme gives us some advice on how to capture an action shot.

How to shoot handheld panoramics.

Taking cross polarised shots is much easier than you may imagine. Peter Bargh explains.

Tips on capturing those perfect Christmas moments.

For those new to Lightroom, here's a quick introduction to the workspace.

Peter Bargh shares a quick tip showing how you can make a selection from an area that's in the shade.

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.

Taking pictures of images on a television screen is easy if you follow a few simple procedures. We tell you how to get good results from snapping TV screens here.

John Gravett of Lakeland Photographic Holidays shows us how we can give landscapes mood.

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

Peter Bargh shows you how to take better still lifes which, for one, could help you with your ebay listings.

Here's 14 Photoshop tutorials that look at making selections and cutting objects out.

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

We explain how you can take great photographs of tadpoles in a pond.

How to adjust shadows and highlights in Photoshop.

In this tutorial we adjust the tones of our image with Lightroom's Split Toning options.

How and why should you use longer lenses for taking photos.