Photography Techniques

A portrait a day might not keep the doctor away but it will be interesting to look at!

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

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

Your camera has a self timer mode. Learn how to make the most of it in our beginners' guide.

“You have 15 minutes to shoot the CEO. Get ready.” How would you photograph the CEO of a large corporation for a magazine? Creative director Clive Branson shared his secrets of portrait photography.

Make the most of the free light around you and shoot some portraits with it.

Wondering what to buy your dad for Father's Day? Why not give him a portrait you've shot?

Want to shoot some portraits outside? Take a look at these tips first.

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

Portrait photographer Michael Alan Bielat spoke to ePHOTOzine about photographing men and women.

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.

By blending part of an image with itself you can create a cracking sky as this tutorial, by Robin Whalley, will show.

To add focus to an image you can keep the subject you wont people to focus on in colour and turn everything else to black and white.

Consider taking photographs each day for a whole year as a project to keep your photography alive.

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

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.

Learn how a zoom lens can help you create unusual images that have a sense of speed and movement or an abstract feel.

Create pinhole camera style photographs using Photoshop

Michael Bates shows us how to use layer masks in GIMP.

Windows XP comes with a small program called Windows Movie Maker that most photographers may not have realised could be a useful tool. Peter Bargh shows you how it can be used as great tool for creating fun slide shows.

Pete Bargh uses Photoshop Elements to remove a picture spoiling flash shadow.