Photography Techniques

Miss Aniela shows us how a little planning can make a big difference to a photograph.

Robin Whalley shares his tips on planning a successful photographic holiday.

This tutorial will show you how to use GIMP to create a black border for your images.

Mike Browne from PhotographyCourses.Biz explains how to make a manual exposure.

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

Angi Nelson (zarozinia) has a few tips on how you can take better shots of reptiles and frogs at home.

Here are a few things you should consider when buying and using a tripod.

Ben Evans, a Barcelona based professional photographer, shares his knowledge on holistic photography.

Second in a three part series on moving to digital

Having read about a number of techniques to increase colour oomph, Matthew Page came up with a technique that involves switching to Lab mode and adjusting curves on the a and b channels.

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.

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.

Here are ten tips on how to use and what to shoot with a telephoto lens.

Ever taken a picture and realised it would look much better if only you could change the background? Here's how to do it using Corel's Paint Shop Pro.

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

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

A quick budget way to light a wine glass with the edges highlighted.

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.

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.