Photography Techniques

Soon our fields will be awash with yellow and the colourful landscape can make for interesting imagery.

Rapeseed fields are popping up all over the country so go and make the most of the bright colours.

Today we want you to shoot with a shallow depth of field.

A field decorated with hay bales or a single one standing alone, either way hay bales make an interesting photographic subject.

David Clapp swaps people for plants as he puts the Sigma 85mm f/1.4 to the test as a macro lens.

Shots don't always have to be sharp and perfect in fact drag landscapes are quite the opposite.

If you've got a shot you think would look perfect as a drag landscape you can create the look in Photoshop.

See what there is to photograph in and around the hedgerows of the UK.

Not all blur is bad as you'll find out if you read this article.

Stop worrying about front-to-back sharpness and embrace a bit of bokeh.

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.

Four quick tips to help you improve your images of lighthouses.

Doug Jackson explains why rain shouldn't stop you from taking photos.

A Photoshop tutorial on improving foggy shots.

Andy Warhol’s work features one of the most recognisable styles of print in the art world and his silk screen prints of stars as famous as Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor are iconic. Here Michael Bates recreates the effect for using the free image editing program, Gimp.

We list 5 techniques that'll help you photograph the best psring shots you can.

We're on the search for neglected buildings.

Steve Davey and David Taylor are professional travel photographers who have a spot of advice on taking better holiday photographs.

How to make objects in layers take on the shape of objects in lower layers

How to use the Adjustment Brush in Lightroom to make selective adjustments to your images.

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