Photography Techniques

Vertical panoramas make amazing photography, once you master how to create them. Here's one way to create them in camera.

In part 3 of Michael Jenkins guide to beginning photography he suggests we choose a theme for our photography

Struggling to capture that picture perfect Puffin? Are your subjects flying out of frame before you've clicked the shutter button? If so, you need Joe Kellard's help.

We talk to the team behind Photograph The World Newsletter to find out what their top travel tips are.

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.

Running events are the perfect opportunity for you to capture some close-up, photographic action.

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.

Autumn's a great season for photographing wildlife so here's a few tips and a round-up of what you can photograph.

Victor Habbick explains how photography has helped with his depression and how it can help you too.

How to make objects in layers take on the shape of objects in lower layers

Despite what some experts say, you don't have to own five studio flash heads to produce high-key lighting.

Here are ten situations when manual focus can work better than your camera's auto focus.

Peter Bargh explains what polarising filters are, how they work and provides a series of tips to get the best out of them.

Are you bored with images that have plain, straight edges? John Pearson shows Photoshop users how to create interesting effects of their own using Layer Masks. The method provides control so that the effect can be bold or subtle according to taste.

In this tutorial we adjust the tones of our image with Lightroom's Split Toning options.