Photography Techniques

With Winter getting ever closer, ePHOTOzine spoke to Chris Hanley about shooting outdoors and the equipment we'd need to make those portraits perfect.

Portrait photographer Michael Alan Bielat spoke to ePHOTOzine about photographing men and women.

Here's part 2 of the professional photographers advice on weddings.

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

Part three of our four part series and kindly reproduced from the Procedures for Professional Imaging manual - aperture and shutter speed selection

Anyone can take a picture of a person but to take a really great picture of someone takes practice, patience and a little bit of know how. We spoke to three professional portrait photographers to see what tips they have for taking better portraits. Here's part one.

Unsure if you need a tripod in your life? This article will give you eight reasons why tripods are useful.

There's as much skill required in organising groups at a wedding as there is sorting out exposure and composition. Our guide will help you become ringmaster

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.

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

Rather than burying your head under cover why not have a go at recording those impressive lightning streak on film?

Give images some drama in Photoshop by adding film grain.

Light is not always what it seems. Peter explains about colour temperature.

Matthew Page shows us how to create better black &amp; white conversions from colour files using the Lab mode and a gradient layer.</

Here are some tips on how you can control natural light in your photos.

Peter Stevenson explains how photographers can benefit from prom mania.

Get out of bed before the rest of the world wakes up to capture some great images.

Make a new shop look old with the help of Photoshop.

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