Photography Techniques

See how taking your flash off camera can make a big difference to your pictures.

How to photograph oil on water with a basic set up to create abstract images.

Read David Kaplan's advice and learn how to take breathtakingly-good landscapes.

Joe Roberts says that wide field fixed tripod astrophotography is the simplest form of astrophotography. It's the ideal starting point, because it takes only basic equipment, and even first timers can get very nice results!

How to make your own 6 month duration images of the sun.

Portrait photographer Michael Alan Bielat spoke to ePHOTOzine about photographing men and women.

Here's ePHOTOzine's guide to creating passport images.

Fancy jumping out of a plane with a parachute and a camera? ePHOTOzine member, Mike Murphy is the man to speak to about it.

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

John Tisbury shares his nude photography advice.

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.

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

If you plan on visiting a church on your holidays here are a few photography tips to help you out.

Tips on understanding light direction and when to use it.

Vignettes are a simple yet subtle way to guide the eye through a shot and here are four ways to create one.

In part one of our series for beginners Michael Jenkins gives advice on choosing and using cameras.

Denise Ippolito shows us how to take great shots of flower petals with a lightbox and some simple post processing.

We're heading back into the night but this time our focus is a church.

How to photograph oil on water with a basic set up to create abstract images.

Here's some hints and tips on shooting wildlife with a compact camera.

ePz member Tony Prower explains how a cloth can help you create a stunning landscape shot.