Photography Techniques

Michael Jenkins gives some tips on correctly composing your photograph

You often shoot images where the subject looks stationary and there's nothing worse than a motorbike stuck in its tracks. Here Peter Bargh shows you how to make that static bike come to life using a few Photoshop tools

Rather than burying your head under cover why not have a go at recording those impressive lightning streak on film?

Want to take better beach photos? You must read our tips.

How would you feel if you lost all of your most precious images? Here's how you can stop that happening.

Should all wedding photographs be posed? Michael Alan Bielat shares his opinion.

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

Ever wondered how other people get their images published? Well there really isn’t any secret as Cheryl Surry explains.

David Clapp shows us how to adapt manual focus lenses for digital cameras.

You can create great studio portraits with limited facilities and a little thought.

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.

Turn the humble vegetable into a piece of art with a few simple steps.

Turn your bright sky into night with the help of Photoshop.

Want to have a go at robin photography but aren't sure how to do it? Have a read of these 10 quick tips.

Here's our second tutorial looking at Photoshop's Selection Tools.

Is your model not wearing the right shade of lipstick? Well this tutorial will show you how to add a new colour with the help of GIMP.

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

Peter Bargh uses Photoshop's Blend mode to create a more realistic paint effect.

See how you can quickly remove a background from a photo with Photoshop's Magic Eraser Tool.

Here are some tips on how you can control natural light in your photos.

From the earliest known relic, some 8000 years old, to the latest metallic monstrosities, statues are waiting to be photographed.