Photography Techniques

Tips on better exposure and lighting when photographing black people in the studio.

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

As the world goes into a football frenzy capture some of the joy and heartache that goes with the big game.

How to take a few Autumn portraits.

With Winter getting ever closer, ePHOTOzine spoke to Chris Hanley about shooting outdoors and the equipment we'd need to make those portraits perfect.

<br />Ariadne Van Zandbergen, a leading wildlife and travel photographer, shares a collection of tips to help you phoptograph people of Africa.

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

We spoke to Chris Hanley to get a few tips for capturing those perfect family portraits.

When the Christmas lights go up you have a few weeks to get out there and use them in your photography.

So, how can you take a good portrait, during the day that doesn't have deep shadows or kids pulling odd faces? Find out here.

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.

Does everything that's in your frame need to be there?

Grab your coat, get outside and head for a nearby lake or river for a spot of winter water photography.

Load up your camera with infrared film and shoot the world in a whole new light.

Get in your car (make sure someone else is driving) and shoot some light trails.

Everyone likes to look at the night sky so while you're staring at it you might as well photograph it too.

Zoom burst is an interesting technique that can take some time to get right. Here's our advice to help you perfect the technique.

In this article in our series using Paint Shop Pro we show you how to pimp up the bodywork of a Camper van. Try following our technique and then using it to max up your own car photos.

Light is not always what it seems. Peter explains about colour temperature.

Here are five tips to help you get started in still life photography.

To make sure eyes stay on your subject try adding blur to the background.