Photography Techniques

Here are 10 more tips to help you take better photos of trains, planes, cars and other modes of transport.

Here are five tutorials that'll help you take better shots of cars, boats, trains and other transport.

We have a few more transport photography tips to help you take shots that stand out from the crowd.

Here are 5 tutorials that list long lenses as an essential item.

Here are some ideas for subjects that you can photograph on your way to work.

Holding a camera steady is essential if you want to make the most of your camera and lens quality.

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

Following on from last month's article on beginners astrophotography Michael A. Covington now goes one stage further and explain about telescopes and how to use them to view stars and planets.

Tim Curtis loves all types of photography but his main love is with photographing what not many humans have photographed before. His great sense of curiosity means exploring caves are a favourite pastime and here he tells us why we shouldn't be afraid to try this dangerous hobby.

Progressing your framing using the 3 Ps: Presentation, Professionalism and Profit.

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 snow may not be falling outside but don't worry; there's an easy way to create it in Photoshop.

Create artistic shapes on paper in this traditional darkroom technique shared by Peter Bargh.

Here Mark Galer explains one of the more sophisticated montage techniques available to Photoshop users that enables selective blending of pixels based on their tonal or colour value.

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.

Puffins make great characters for portraits so why not head to the coast and spend an hour or two photographing these popular sea birds.

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

Having mastered the basic camera controls, you may want to become more creative with your camera. One easy way of doing this is by using different focal length lenses.

All you need to know to get close to your subject

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

We show you how adding a vignette to a portrait or wedding photo can really improve the look of your image.