Photography Techniques

Just because it's turning cold doesn't mean you can't still get outdoors with your camera and other gear.

Learn how to make a quick repair of an area with this tool.

Make unique abstract images using nothing more than a few sticks of incense and a few minutes in Photoshop. Not only that, but it will make your room smell nice too.

The clone tool's a great way to tidy up your image. Here's how you use it.

How to shoot portraits of poppies and landcapes of poppy fields.

How to take great photos for the holiday album before you've even stepped off the plane.

Here are a few reasons why you should try using vertical lines in your images.

Vertical panoramas make amazing photography, once you master how to create them. Here's one way to create them in camera.

Have you used diagonal lines in your landscape shots? If not, here are a few reasons why you should.

Converging lines and verticals don't always have to be avoided as we explain here.

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.

Sometimes, adding a bit of spark to eyes can improve a portrait greatly. Here's how to do it in Photoshop Elements.

Peter Bargh of ePHOTOzine explains what to look for in a negative, to ensure correct exposure and development accuracy in the future.

How to blend two images together in Photoshop.

Learn to take advantage of dark nights and produce great photos with Peter Bargh of ePHOTOzine.

How to turn a colour portrait into a grainy mono using Corel's Paint Shop Pro X3.

Robin Whalley explains why playing with your white balance can sometimes create a more interesting picture.

Want to add a snow storm to a landscape shot? This is how you do it.

There are certain elements and key subjects that appear in landscapes time and time again. Here's what they are and why they work.

As it's Valentine's day we have some quick tips on photographing couples.

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