Photography Techniques

Michael Bates shows us how the Makeover Tools in Paint Shop Pro X2 are great for beginners.

Here's a round up of some of the ePz photographers who shoot good landscapes, and how they take their stunning shots.

Some people seem unaware that to take a great flower photograph you need just as much passion and skill as you do for portrait, landscape or wildlife photography. Here is a quick guide to show you how to take a great photograph of a flower or garden.

Follow David Clapp's humorous exposure blending tutorial to learn the art of blending.

Photographer Delly Carr and Sony Europe have some tips to make your twilight photographs shine.

Professional Social photographer David Simm explains how you can safeguard your business.

Tim Curtis loves all types of photography but his main love is with photographing what not many humans have photographed before. His great sense of curiosity means exploring caves are a favourite pastime and here he tells us why we shouldn't be afraid to try this dangerous hobby.

Good equipment and technical knowledge are both important to taking strong wildlife photographs, but there are also a great many ways of improving your results that have less to do with cutting edge technology than with how you look through your lens, explains wildlife expert, Ariadne Van Zandbergen.

Tim Wallace works with famous car companies such as Jaguar. Here's how he got there.

If you like to get it right in camera rather than editing later you should pack some filters when you're heading out to shoot landscapes.

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.

Five ways to use foreground interest to make a better landscape.

The big day has arrived. Your model is due any minute and you are all ready to shoot - or are you?

Have a go at Dodging and Burning the digital way with the help of Robin Whalley's tutorial.

Shoot some different types of water shots and have a go at capturing some water bubbles.

Learn how a zoom lens can help you create unusual images that have a sense of speed and movement or an abstract feel.

Visit a birds of prey centre and shoot some interesting imagery with the help of these tips.

Soon our fields will be awash with yellow and the colourful landscape can make for interesting imagery.

Several times throughout the year our skies deliver meteor showers that we can capture on camera.

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.