Photography Techniques

Professional photographer Brett Harkness shares his ten top portrait photography tips with you.

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

Here's a round-up of some of ePHOTOzine's most popular portrait photography techniques.

It's not just about light and exposure, Alex Lee suggests gaining a rapport with your subject is essential if you want to take natural and relaxed portraits.

Annabel Williams tells us what 5 things she'd say straight away to someone who's new to portrait photography

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

Here are a few more tips to help you capture great summer portraits.

This tutorial will show you how to fix the lighting in an outdoor photograph using GIMP's colour and sharpening tools while maintaining a natural end result.

Advice on how to shoot good summer portraits.

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.

Adjusting White Balance with Lightroom will improve the colour balance of your digital photos.

How to blend two images together in Photoshop.

How to use Photoshop's lasso selection tools.

Here are a few tips on taking photos of hot-air balloons.

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

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

Trees looks great in Autumn but you don't have to wait until then to photograph them.

Create artistic shapes on paper in this traditional darkroom technique shared by Peter Bargh.

Get outside and photograph tulips with the help of these few tips.

Here's a simple technique using your image editing program to turn a colour or back& white photograph into a silhouette.