Photography Techniques

Learn how to make the most of your digital camera's white balance mode to ensure accurate colour in all lighting situations.

Robin Whalley explains why playing with your white balance can sometimes create a more interesting picture.

Adjusting White Balance with Lightroom will improve the colour balance of your digital photos.

You don't always have to play by the rules when you're taking your photos.

John Gravett shows you how to make sure every snow-scene shot you take is as white as the real thing.

Think the grey card is of no use in this digital age? Think again.

Mark Elliott of Better Photos shares his basic tips on shooting in the snow.

Jesus Coll shows how learning to master exposure times and dodging and burning will help you produce fine art prints.

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.

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

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

Pete Bargh uses Photoshop Elements to remove a picture spoiling flash shadow.

Pick a location or just walk outside your house and see what interesting things there are to photograph a few minutes from your front door.

Peter Bargh shows you how to take better still lifes which, for one, could help you with your ebay listings.

Your camera has a self timer mode. Learn how to make the most of it in our beginners' guide.

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.

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.

How to watermark an image in Photoshop.

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.