Photography Techniques

Site member Alley (AlleyCatz) shares her tips for shooting portraits at living museums and re-enactments.

Try shooting portraits with a difference. Forget the flashgun and light up a candle or two for people pictures with a difference.

Barry Chignell shows us how to take a great self portrait.

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

This guide shows you how to make someone look great without them going under the knife!

Steve Davey and David Taylor are professional travel photographers who have a spot of advice on taking better holiday photographs.

Get in close and focus your attention on faces.

David Cantwell shares some of his tips and tricks for great product photography.

Here are a few suggestions on why you should shoot a self portrait and how to make sure you get it right.

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.

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

So, why do you need to know about Shutters and Apertures? Mike Browne from PhotographyCourses.Biz explains.

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.

Pick a location or just walk outside your house and see what interesting things there are to photograph a few minutes from your front door.

Make selections quickly with the Magic Wand tool.

Today it's the turn of the arctic tern as we list a few tips on how to photograph them.

Should people be featured in landscape photos? And if they are, what do they do to the shot?

Photoshop's Radial Blur filter can be used to simulate zoom burst effect. Here we've added one to a stained glass window.

Winter's on the way which means the football season is well under way. Frank Reid and Sam Furlong give us their tips for capturing perfect match photographs.

How to give your images a pop of colour in Photoshop.