Photography Techniques

John Gravett of Lakeland Photographic Holidays goes on the hunt for Damselflies.

When the pictures you print out don't look like the ones you see on your computer monitor you need to manage your colour. Dr Richard Hann explains how.

learn what high key and low key lighting is.

Read David Kaplan's advice and learn how to take breathtakingly-good landscapes.

Learn how to use Photoshop's Background Erase tool and you'll soon be removing backgrounds with ease.

Tackle one of the most colourful subjects with the help of our nature expert, Jason Smalley.

Second in a three part series on moving to digital

Infra-red photography is a bit like Marmite you either love it or hate it and John Powell, the founder of the Infra-Red Photographic Society most definitely adores it. He started taking infra-red images in the eighties and here he tells ePHOTOzine why more people should be looking at the world in a way we can't usually see.

Here's another roundup of some of the great landscape talent we have on the site.

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.

Learn how to shoot macro images of rain drops with the help of Edwin Brosens.

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 photograph oil on water with a basic set up to create abstract images.

Want to know what kit you need for a photo walk? Take a look at this article that has a few handy tips too.

Here's a simple technique using your image editing program to turn a colour or back& white photograph into a silhouette.

Peter Bargh of ePHOTOzine shows you how to use Photoshop's Color Range tool to change a background.

Most towns have their Christmas lights up and on by now so head out and photograph them.

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

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

Want to shoot some monochrome landscapes? Take a look at this article.