Photography Techniques

10 tips from photographer Itai Danan you need to read before you head off on your holidays with your camera.

Professional photographer Brett Harkness shares his ten top portrait photography tips with you.

David Clapp shows us how The Nikon 14-24 Lens on a Canon 1DsIII can be used for landscapes.

With the help of Photoshop you can have fireworks decorating the sky of any image.

Tips on shooting landscapes with brilliant skies.

Get adventurous with your camera settings.

Reflections are all around but you need to tune your vision to spot them easily.

Mix a bit of blue sky with a few party balloons and you'll have yourself a great photo.

Ian Smith is a sports photographer who specialises in rugby union. Here's how he captures all the action.

Easter's over and you are back at work, but take your camera with you and try shooting in shades of grey. Or if you're lucky enough to still be on holiday try shooting the coast too.

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.

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.

Here are a few exposure tips to help you capture the shades of Autumn.

Michael Bates shows us how to use GIMP's Path tool to selectively colour an object.

Here's our second tutorial looking at Photoshop's Selection Tools.

When you paste an object into another picture make sure it looks like it belongs there by adding a shadow.

These wasps are 5 mm – 40 mm large, and difficult to photograph. This article will explain how to shoot them and where to find them in the field.

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

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.

Want some basic tips on how to photograph buildings? Take a look at this article.

Here are a few reasons why you should try using vertical lines in your images.