Photography Techniques

If you have a zoom lens with a manual zoom ring you can adjust it as you take the photograph and create interesting effects.

Here's some things you should know about digital zoom before choosing a digital or advanced compact.

Zoom burst is an interesting technique that can take some time to get right. Here's our advice to help you perfect the technique.

Photoshop's Zoom and Hand tools explained

Zoom blur is a striking form of blur that is relatively easy to achieve at the time you take the picture, provided you have the correct equipment. Here Michael Bates shows you how to add the effect later, digitally using the free editing program Gimp.

Learn how a zoom lens can help you create unusual images that have a sense of speed and movement or an abstract feel.

Photoshop's Radial Blur filter can be used to simulate zoom burst effect. Here we've added one to a stained glass window.

Stewart McCarthy shows us how he creates his zoom blur flower heads.

ePz member Duncan Simey shows us how to create drag zoom landscapes.

Tips on photographing the interesting detail you find on churches, castles and other tall structures.

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.

Turn your photos into comic book images with the help of Photoshop.

A guide to UV protection by Ken Seal

Improve your flash pictures by getting the flashgun off your camera and firing it remotely with a slave.

How to use Photoshop's lasso selection tools.

Lightroom has incredibly good image processing power and one of the star features is its HSL filtering for Hue, Saturation and Luminance in eight different colour ranges.

How to use a flatbed scanner more creatively.

Ice makes an interesting photographic subject, as this article will show you.

For those who want to learn how to photograph seals, take a look at this article.

Peter Bargh provides an all-inclusive guide to developing your first black and white film.