Photography Techniques

Practical advice about the world of picture framing from DIYframing.com

Stationary subjects are easier to photograph, aren't they? Well, not necessarily. Michael Jenkins gives an excellent beginners' guide to photographing Architecture.

Michael Bates shows us how the depth of field tool can help you centre the viewer's attention on a subject of your choice.

Using Photoshop's Move tool to rearrange elements in a digital image.

Peter Bargh shows you how to make a simple crop tool, useful for deciding which part of a digital image to crop.

Progressing your framing using the 3 Ps: Presentation, Professionalism and Profit.

Your web browser can be used to help you view your photos in a new way by turning it into a useful cropping tool.

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

Tips on better exposure and lighting when photographing black people in the studio.

Making a colour ring around is one of the best things you can do if you are trying to master colour printing. Peter Bargh explains.

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.

Don't let a messy background spoil your shot when you can replace it with your own.

How to blend two images together in Photoshop.

Here are a few tips on photographing dandelion clocks creatively.

Peter Bargh explains why composition is one of those things that makes all the difference between a snapshot and great photograph.

Creating portraits with a fashion edge in the studio.

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.

John Gravett shares his top tips on how photographers can take photos and survive the cold weather.

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.

Ted Byrne shares his tips on photographing Hummingbirds.

When you've taken a portrait and the background lets it down, there's only one thing to do and that's remove it. This tutorial will show you just how easy it is to remove the background from an image and create a new one.