Photography Techniques

Matthew Page looks at a sharpening technique that's designed to give a little punch and undo some of the softness inherent in the DSLR sensor.

As the world goes into a football frenzy capture some of the joy and heartache that goes with the big game.

Take a walk to your local woods and you'll find plenty to photograph.

Advice on how to shoot good summer portraits.

David Clapp swaps people for plants as he puts the Sigma 85mm f/1.4 to the test as a macro lens.

Waterfalls are popular landscape subjects but they can be tricky to capture. Here's our advice to make the job that bit easier.

See how Janet Walters (Chase) created her floral portraits that have a distinctive artistic feel.

It's summer so make the most of the good weather and take some photos at a sporting event.

A game of cricket isn't too hard to find at this time of year.

Windmills make great photographic subjects as ePz member Gaz_H knows.

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.

A guide to UV protection by Ken Seal

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

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

Adobe's budget version of Photoshop, Photoshop Elements has a few new tricks up its sleeve including an image stitching mode.

Here's a quick and simple way to give your shots scale.

No longer will you need to navigate menus as Michael Bates shows us all the hotkeys we could ever need.

ePz member orionmystery shares his top tips on taking photos of macro subjects.

How to improve skin colour with the help of Photoshop Elements.

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.

Create starburst filter effects with ease using Photoshop's custom brushes