Photography Techniques

Wondering what shutter speed will give you the best waterfall image? Have a read of this.

Kat Landreth shows us what's new in GIMP 2.8 and shows us the features not to be missed.

Light is the basic substance that your camera captures or records. This article explains the primary elements that govern how much light reaches your camera and makes an image too light, too dark, or exposed correctly.

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.

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

An outdoor shoot means you can enjoy the fresh air and take some fantastic shots at the same time.

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.

Stuck for inspiration with your photobook? These tips can help.

Author and photographer, Matt Bamberg shows us how to create a simple frame in Photoshop.

A bit of creative blur can make a big difference to a photograph as Rob Sheppard explains.

By blending part of an image with itself you can create a cracking sky as this tutorial, by Robin Whalley, will show.

See how a hand-held light meter will help you get better exposures, even if you are using a digital camera.

How to improve pictures you take of reflections in lakes.

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.