Photography Techniques

10 tips to help you take macro shots that always impress.

One of the most fascinating and rewarding areas of photography is shooting close-up and macro studies. Small may be beautiful, but Steve Bavister shows you how to make it big. using photos by Peter Bargh.

Here's another roundup of some of the great landscape talent we have on the site.

Duncan Evans goes on a whirlwind tour of focal lengths when shooting portraits and explains what not to shoot.

John Gravett of Lakeland Photographic Holidays goes on the hunt for Damselflies.

This article is a few pointers to get you started posing for the camera if you're new to modelling or if you're a bit nervous. Photographers will also find this information useful for dealing with models.

When perfected, panning can produce some rather brilliant shots so for those new to it, here are some tips.

Many cameras have a built-in flash which can be used in more creative ways than you may think as we explain.

Take better photos by following these basic photography rules.

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

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.

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.

Today it's the turn of the arctic tern as we list a few tips on how to photograph them.

You don't have to venture very far to find some water to photograph.

We list the ten most popular architecture photography techniques featured on ePHOTOzine.

Pick a location or just walk outside your house and see what interesting things there are to photograph a few minutes from your front door.

Take better photos by following these basic photography rules.

Collections are a great way to manage and organise images in Lightroom once you know how to use them.

How to shoot panoramics hand-held and with the help of a panoramic head.

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.

Using Photoshop's Marquee tool to make selections