Photography Techniques

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

Leave your wide lens in the bag and take out your longer lens for landscapes.

A teleconverter will seriously enhance your lens's pulling power, so are ideal accessories for nature and action photographers.

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

In part four of our beginners guide to nature photography Ian Andrews looks at what can be achieved using specialist lenses.

Here's a round up of some of the top insect macro talent we have on site, in no particular order.

Chris Miles is one of ePHOTOzine's more prolific macro photographers. Here he shares his secrets to success.

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

Infra-red photography is a bit like Marmite you either love it or hate it and John Powell, the founder of the Infra-Red Photographic Society most definitely adores it. He started taking infra-red images in the eighties and here he tells ePHOTOzine why more people should be looking at the world in a way we can't usually see.

Shawn Soderstrom may live on the opposite side of the world but he still has Autumns worth photographing. Here he tells us why we should make the most of Autumn colours.

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.

Take a different look at everyday objects and see what numbers and letters you can see in them.

Light is not always what it seems. Peter explains about colour temperature.

In his latest article, Robin Whalley shows us how to use the Tone Curve tool in Lightroom.

10 tips to help you take macro shots that always impress.

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

Windows XP comes with a small program called Windows Movie Maker that most photographers may not have realised could be a useful tool. Peter Bargh shows you how it can be used as great tool for creating fun slide shows.

Lens flare isn't something that should always be avoided, as you'll learn from this article.

Adobe's budget version of Photoshop, Photoshop Elements has a few new tricks up its sleeve including an image stitching mode.

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.

Pick up a toy camera and get creative. Here are a few tips to get you started.