Photography Techniques

The coastline around the UK has several piers jutting out towards the sea. As well as providing amusements for the kids and hosting the local entertainment, they can provide fascinating subjects for photographers.

We have a few more transport photography tips to help you take shots that stand out from the crowd.

ePHOTOzine spoke to portrait photographer Michael Alan Bielat to see how he lights portraits.

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.

Backgrounds aren't always given as much attention as they should.

To some graveyards are spooky locations, but to photographers they offer masses of shooting potential. Pete explains why.

We spoke to Chris Hanley to get a few tips for capturing those perfect family portraits.

We're at the coast again but this time we're photographing piers.

Take a look at a showcase of work produced by some of the top flower photographers on ePz.

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.

Here's a few tips to help those new to portraits.

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.

As Halloween is just around the corner we're going to show you how to create a ghost like image.

In this tutorial we adjust the tones of our image with Lightroom's Split Toning options.

Digital cameras, like film cameras, often have an ISO setting, but what does this means and how do you use it? All is explained here...

Sometimes taking a picture of a buliding can result in it looking like it is set at an angle, Michael Bates shows us how Corel Paint Shop Pro can help you fix this problem.

Running events are the perfect opportunity for you to capture some close-up, photographic action.

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.

Have you used diagonal lines in your landscape shots? If not, here are a few reasons why you should.

How to turn your quick sunset snap into something which packs a serious punch.