Photography Techniques

Want to shoot some night shots in the city? Have a read of this first.

Halloween's just around the corner so here are a few tips to make your spooky shoot a success.

If you take your camera to your local park you'll find plenty of interesting objects to photograph.

David Taylor is a full-time photographer who specialises in landscape and travel photography. Here he tells ePHOTOzine why your holiday snaps should feature more than just your sister falling in the pool.

Travel Photographer and writer Ian M Butterfield visited Rome to shoot buildings and blue skies. Unfortunately the weather had other ideas. In this feature Ian shares his top tips on what to do when the weather turns bad.

Take a trip to your nearest village as there's usually plenty of photographically friendly subjects to shoot.

Barry Chignell shares his tips on creating an interesting car portrait.

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

Anyone can take a picture of a person but to take a really great picture of someone takes practice, patience and a little bit of know how. We spoke to three professional portrait photographers to see what tips they have for taking better portraits. Here's part one.

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

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.

Trees looks great in Autumn but you don't have to wait until then to photograph them.

By blending part of an image with itself you can create a cracking sky as this tutorial, by Robin Whalley, will show.

Here are some tips on how you can control natural light in your photos.

Here's a simple trick showing how you can turn your friends into vampires.

Learn how to shoot macro images of rain drops with the help of Edwin Brosens.

Barry Beckham and David Rowley explain how layer masks work.

Don't let a messy background spoil your shot when you can replace it with your own.

We explain why it's good to pack a polariser when you're going on holiday.

Using layers and Motion Blur filter to create a sense of speed.

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.