Photography Techniques

Hang around for when the sunset has finished and you'll get some cracking shots.

Most photographers have one or more favourite themes, a particular type of subject which attracts their eye. If you look through my filing cabinets it's not hard to identify mine, one in particular crops up time and time again - trees.

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

David Clapp shows us how The Nikon 14-24 Lens on a Canon 1DsIII can be used for landscapes.

In this series of articles using Paint Shop Pro we show you how to pimp up a Camper van and here we work on the wheel arches. Try following our technique and then using it to max up your car photos.

Spend some time at the seaside photographing on and at the beach.

Learn how to create a simple ragged border in Photoshop.

Photography advice for those photographers venturing to this year's festival of speed.

Spring is here and daffodils are blooming so with that in mind here are ten tips for different daffodil photos.

We take a reader's picture and show how to improve it.

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.

Trees looks great in Autumn but you don't have to wait until then to photograph them.

Don't pack your gear up once you've captured your sunset as twilight can be just as rewarding.

Adding a frame to an image in Photoshop is easy and this tutorial will show you how to do it.

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.

Is the British weather letting you down again? Well, we have some ideas to keep you busy indoors.

Photographer Taylor Mathis shows how different types of light will change the look of your food photography.

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.

How to make objects in layers take on the shape of objects in lower layers

The effect of blurring the non-critical parts of an image helps separate the main subject from the rest of the foreground and background that might otherwise be found as distracting. Anthony Moringello shows us how to digitally create depth-of-field.

The effect of using Red, Green and Blue filters at the exposure stage can now be simulated in Photoshop following this simple step-by-step tutorial.