Photography Techniques

Let your portraits tell a story by capturing some character.

ePHOTOzine's Technical Editor, Joshua Waller, has 7 tips that'll help those who are new to modelling.

Anyone can take a picture of a person but to take a really great picture of someone takes practice, patience and a little bit of know how. We spoke to three professional portrait photographers to see what tips they have for taking better portraits. Here's part one.

Shooting different lengths in portraits affects how the image is composed and perceived, as Duncan Evans explains.

Bruce Smith is a fashion photographer with over 30 years experience in the industry. His new book, Pro Digital Fashion Photography tells you everything you need to know to succeed in the fashion industry. Here he offers some advice about taking great fashion photographs.

Reflections are every where so why not make the most of them?

Here are a few focusing tips to get you thinking about your photography more creatively.

Ginny Felch has spent her career photographing children. Here's how she produces her images.

David Tarn gives an account of the benefits of medium-format, including some examples.

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.

How to find and photograph the Northern Lights

Sending pictures by email is easy with a tiny amount of computer knowledge

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

John Gravett shows us how wind movement can make interesting and more dynamic landscape shots.

Want to shoot some monochrome landscapes? Take a look at this article.

In this month's Photoshop Elements tutorial Peter Bargh shows you how to use one photograph of a sky to make a seascape style landscape.

Take a walk along the beach and see what the tide's brought in.

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.

All you need to know to get close to your subject

We show you how to use Adobe Lightroom to convert a colour building photo to black & white.