Photography Techniques

Professional Social photographer David Simm explains how you can safeguard your business.

Some people seem unaware that to take a great flower photograph you need just as much passion and skill as you do for portrait, landscape or wildlife photography. Here is a quick guide to show you how to take a great photograph of a flower or garden.

Buildings are something we will probably never run out of. Everyday a new crane goes up in a city to start work on a new set of apartments or office blocks. One set of people whose living comes from buildings are architectural photographers and ePHOTOzine spoke to Paul Freeman, an architectural and interiors photographer to learn a little bit more about this line of work.

Kelly Rowland, Nuno Frade, Steve Sharp and Rob Eavis continue to tell ePHOTOzine how we can capture some of the amazing places hidden below our feet.

Portrait photographer Michael Alan Bielat spoke to ePHOTOzine about photographing men and women.

Ginny Felch has spent her career photographing children. Here's how she produces her images.

Chris Hanley is a professional wedding and portrait photographer who has a few tips for photographers thinking about venturing into wedding photography.

In this technique, ePHOTOzine gets to grips with zero gravity photography.

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

Capture a little bit of history in one of the many museums that are open across the UK.

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.

If you plan on visiting a church on your holidays here are a few photography tips to help you out.

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

As well as portraits and shots of beaches why not take a few shots of the plates of food you purchase?

Learn how to make a quick repair of an area with this tool.

Attaching a neutral density filter to your camera lens will bring you several benefits, as Peter Bargh explains.

Peter Bargh talks through a few tips to improve your panning technique.

Ted Byrne tells us why we should be making the most of the harvest season.

We show you how to create a realistic jigsaw puzzle out of one of your digital photographs

Here's a quick tutorial which will show you how to use the Quick Mask Tool in Photoshop to make a selection.

Vignettes are a simple yet subtle way to guide the eye through a shot and here are four ways to create one.