Photography Techniques

For the past 30 years Bob Carlos Clarke has held a reputation as one of the world's leading erotic photographers. Here in an extract from his latest book Shooting Sex, he explains how he works with his models.

With the global economy struggling it is more important than ever to try and make more money. Well Michael Alan Bielat, a photographer from the US may just be able to help you earn a little bit more cash.

The fundamentals of starting up a professional framing operation.

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.

Having mastered the basic camera controls, you may want to become more creative with your camera. One easy way of doing this is by using different focal length lenses.

The effect of blurring the non-critical parts of an image helps separate the main subject from the rest of the foreground and background that might otherwise be found as distracting. Anthony Moringello shows us how to digitally create depth-of-field.

When you've taken a portrait and the background lets it down, there's only one thing to do and that's remove it. This tutorial will show you just how easy it is to remove the background from an image and create a new one.

Turn your boring landscapes into interesting black and whites with this tutorial.

Mist and fog can add an extra interesting twist to our images. Here's how.

Want to know what kit you need for a photo walk? Take a look at this article that has a few handy tips too.

The healing tool can be very useful. This short tutorial will show you how you can use it.

Our guide to Photoshop's e Levels tool will help you make your images have more impact.

The way you develop a picture can add to the creativity. Here's a simple technique by Heather Powell to develop your darkroom skills

Windmills make great photographic subjects as ePz member Gaz_H knows.