Photography Techniques

Michael Greccos explains some ideas to help you think more creatively when shooting portaits.

Should summer deign to show its rosy cheeks again you might be tempted to rush out, camera in hand, to capture that warmth in your portraits but, as Duncan Evans explains, bright sunshine brings specific problems.

A picture is worth a thousand words, so make someone very happy on Mother's Day by giving her a new portrait or two and here's some advice on how to shoot it.

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

Duncan Evans turns back the clock to the golden age of Hollywood star portraiture.

Ways to take photos of children without expensive lighting or flash cameras

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

Taking a photo of yourself levitating in mid-air or crawling up the walls is easier than you think and this article will let you in on the secret of how to do it.

Give your portraits a new look by making joiners with them.

Make the most of the light that falls through your windows and shoot some natural light portraits.

Here's ePHOTOzine's guide to photographing historical buildings.

Michael Bates shows us how Layers can be used in GIMP.

Zooming in with a telephoto and picking on detail is fun to do.

A 'rust fix' is something John Gravett likes to have every once in a while. Here he explains how you can shoot successful rust shots without too much effort.

Lean how to add watermarks to images in GIMP.

If you have to take photographs in the middle of the day make sure you make your own shade.

Michael Bates show us how to create a frosted glass border in GIMP.

David Clapp shares his tips on taking and processing infrared photographs.

If you take your camera to your local park you'll find plenty of interesting objects to photograph.

How to plan a photography walk and what to take with you.

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.

The famous high key effect is one of the most interesting, yet simple, effects you can achieve in digital photography

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

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.

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.

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.

Chris Burfoot AMPA shows us how to set up studio lighting.

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

Barry Beckham provides an overview of Photoshop's brush tools.

Here are five popular tutorials on urban photography ePHOTOzine have published on site.

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

Once you grasp the basic principles of focusing your photographs will take on a whole new depth.

Peter Bargh explains what polarising filters are, how they work and provides a series of tips to get the best out of them.

Robin Whalley shares his travel photography tips.

Duncan Evans turns back the clock to the golden age of Hollywood star portraiture.

We show you how backlighting your photographs can help create shape using the rim lighting technique