Photography Techniques

First part of a three part series considers camera choice and how to save your digital photos

Peter Bargh explains what polarising filters are, how they work and provides a series of tips to get the best out of them.

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.

The famous high key effect is one of the most interesting, yet simple, effects you can achieve in digital photography

Learn how to take better snaps of your dog at the beach.

You don't have to venture very far to find some water to photograph.

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.

John Gravett's tips on focus stacking.

John Gravett of Lakeland Photographic Holidays shares his tips on shooting glass.

Some images work really well with mono tones and the channel mixer in Photoshop is an easy way to produce them.

Want to shoot a lasting collection of spring landscapes before summer arrives? Take a look at John Gravett's tips.

How to use Photoshop's Layer Masks to merge two images side by side, edge to edge.

Entering the world of Photoshop for the first time, an introduction.