Photography Techniques

Holding a camera steady is essential if you want to make the most of your camera and lens quality.

Peter Bargh rounds up the gadgets that will help you move really close to your subject in this guide to macro gear.

Photographs taken with a digital camera very often only need a series of small changes to significantly improve them. Using Photoshop 6 let's show you what we mean with the image below.

Using a digital camera to take infrared pictures is much easier than the film method as we explain.

Peter Bargh talks through a few tips to improve your panning technique.

Having a little knowledge about how the camera's shutter speed works can help you obtain pictures with more impact.

What better time to explore the benefits of your camera's modes than at Christmas?

All you need to know to get close to your subject

Digital cameras, like film cameras, often have an ISO setting, but what does this means and how do you use it? All is explained here...

Using your camera's focus lock is one way to override the automatic focus and ensure you photographs are sharper.

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.

Visit a birds of prey centre and shoot some interesting imagery with the help of these tips.

We try to shed a little light on Lightroom's Catalog to give new users a little more knowledge.

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

Spend a day in a public garden and you'll have a memory card bursting with colourful flora in no time.

Peter Bargh shows you how to take pictures of the moon using a compact digital camera.

Holly Knowles shares 10 of her tips on finding, posing and shooting models.

Professional photographer Brett Harkness shares his ten top portrait photography tips with you.

Once you grasp the basic principles of focusing your photographs will take on a whole new depth.

Here's a round up of some of the top insect macro talent we have on site, in no particular order.

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