Photography Techniques

Jesus Coll shows how learning to master exposure times and dodging and burning will help you produce fine art prints.

First part of a three part series considers camera choice and how to save your digital photos

A fascinating underground world awaits your discovery. Find out what you need and how to shoot in the dark from a leading cave photographer.

Michael Levin shares his tips on deciding on photographic locations and making decisions on what to shoot.

Colin Speedie, photographer and professional yachtsman, talks about the Shark Trust project and how the Canon EOS 1V helps him to achieve spectacular results.

The latest book in Terry Hope's <EM>Black and White Photography </EM>series deals with the perennial subject of the nude. In this extract, a selection of photographers talk about the techniques they have employed to produce their pictures.

An old Hollywood film trick to smooth skin tones was to film through a soft filter. Photographers of the stars have used the same trick. Here's how it's done digitally.

Adding a vignette to your photos is easy in the darkroom and can be very effective. Peter Bargh of ePHOTOzine shows you how with just a piece of card.

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

For those new to Lightroom, here's a quick introduction to the workspace.

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.

Sending pictures by email is easy with a tiny amount of computer knowledge

Here are a some festive light painting suggestions and tips for you to try this Christmas.

You can dramatically alter the tones of a black & white photograph by placing coloured filters over the camera lens. It's all explained here.

Stained glass windows are a photogenic subject but they can be a nightmare to photograph. Here are a few tips to help you perfect your technique.

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.

How to to add canvas to an original picture to place the subject in an optimal position and improve the composition.

We try to shed a little light on Lightroom's Catalog to give new users a little more knowledge.

How to photograph someone writing their name with a sparkler.

How to use Photoshop's Layer Masks to merge two images side by side, edge to edge.

Give images some drama in Photoshop by adding film grain.