Photography Techniques

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Making The Most Of Your Camera's Built-In Flash

Many cameras have a built-in flash which can be used in more creative ways than you may think as we explain.
- 19 Jul 2013
Summer portraits

Should summer deign to show its rosy cheeks again you might be tempted to rush out, camera in hand, to capture that warmth in your portraits but, as Duncan Evans explains, bright sunshine brings specific problems.
- 18 Jul 2007
Lighting Tips For When Photographing Children

MyPhotoSchool share a few basic lighting techniques and tips on photographing children.
- 17 Jul 2012
- MyPhotoSchool
8 Ways Blur Can Enhance Your Photographs

Not all blur is bad as you'll find out if you read this article.
- 13 Jul 2016
Flash made easy

Make the most of your camera's built-in flash to get the best results from your photos.
- 2 Jan 2003
10 Top Tips On Photographing Daffodils

As it's Saint David's Day, we thought we'd kick the month off with 10 tips to help you perfect your Daffodil shots.
- 1 Mar 2016
Steam Railway Photography Tips

In this guide we share some tips to make the most of steam railway photography.
- 25 May 2016
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24 Sep 2016 7:20am

Yi Technology M1 Hands-On Preview

Yi Technology say the Yi-M1 is the mirrorless compact system camera for the smartphone generation. We have a look at this new Micro Four Thirds camera.
21 Sep 2016 1:49AM

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24 Sep 2016 7:15am

Olympus Q&A: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Sensor Size Trip

We spoke to Olympus about the new Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, camera technology and features.
23 Sep 2016 3:11PM

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23 Sep 2016 7:19am

Essential Tips For Capturing Landscapes In Fog & Mist

Here are a few tips to help you capture outdoor shots on misty days.
23 Sep 2016 12:10AM

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22 Sep 2016 10:04pm

Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II Hands-On Preview

We go hands-on with the brand new "Prototype" Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, with 18fps C-AF raw shooting, 4K video, 5-axis IS and more. Updated.
19 Sep 2016 9:31PM

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22 Sep 2016 3:36pm

Mini Competition - Win A Barbershop Camera Strap!

ePHOTOzine are giving you the chance to win a luxury camera strap courtesy of Barbershop.
22 Sep 2016 2:00PM

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22 Sep 2016 1:40pm

Fujifilm GFX 50S Hands-On Preview

We go hands-on with the new 51 megapixel Fujifilm GFX 50S medium format mirrorless camera.
20 Sep 2016 12:56PM

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22 Sep 2016 11:05am

Best Camera Straps Available 2016

Here, we take a look at different camera straps and weigh up their pros and cons.
14 Sep 2016 3:56PM

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22 Sep 2016 7:02am

Laowa 24mm f/14 Replay 2x Macro Lens With Unusual Shape Announced

There will be a new Laowa lens arriving next year that's designed for capturing macro images of shy subjects.
21 Sep 2016 2:45PM

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21 Sep 2016 11:29pm

Photographing birds in flight

Ted Byrne shares his tips on capturing birds in flight.
14 Sep 2016 12:00AM

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21 Sep 2016 11:09pm

Shooting Rocks As Patterns & Textures To Enhance Your Photos

A guide to shooting our rocky landscape to create abstract patterns and textures to use in other photos.
19 Sep 2016 12:10AM

Make your own passport photos

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.
- 1 Jan 2003
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Introduction To Hand-Held Light Meters

See how a hand-held light meter will help you get better exposures, even if you are using a digital camera.
- 27 Nov 2011
- 14 Comments
Using layer masks with Photoshop

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.
- 30 Nov -0001
Enhancing Eyes using Photoshop

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.
- 30 Nov -0001
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Four Easy Ways To Create A Vignette In Photoshop

Vignettes are a simple yet subtle way to guide the eye through a shot and here are four ways to create one in Photoshop.
- 6 May 2016
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How To Use A Neutral Density Filter

Attaching a neutral density filter to your camera lens will bring you several benefits, as Peter Bargh explains.
- 18 Nov 2011
- 10 Comments
Black & white high key effects in Photoshop

The famous high key effect is one of the most interesting, yet simple, effects you can achieve in digital photography
- 30 Nov -0001
- 3 Comments
Depth-of-field explained

Once you grasp the basic principles of focusing your photographs will take on a whole new depth.
- 6 Jan 2002
- 4 Comments
Watermarking your photos in Photoshop 7 and CS

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.
- 30 Nov -0001
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How To Send A Photo As An Email Attachment On Windows, Mac, iOS & Android Devices

If you want to learn how you can send pictures by email with ease, have a read of this tutorial.
- 5 Aug 2016

Autumn through the eyes of a landscape photographer

Brightly coloured trees, crisp cold mornings and the crunch of leaves underfoot are all signs of autumn creeping in and if you're a landscape photographer there's no better time to be outdoors capturing all of what nature has to offer. Here Tony Howell and Nick Jenkins tell ePHOTOzine why autumn is such a great season and they also offer a few autumnal photography tips along the way.
- 23 Oct 2008
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Structures and stone with Paul Freeman

Buildings are something we will probably never run out of. Everyday a new crane goes up in a city to start work on a new set of apartments or office blocks. One set of people whose living comes from buildings are architectural photographers and ePHOTOzine spoke to Paul Freeman, an architectural and interiors photographer to learn a little bit more about this line of work.
- 7 Nov 2008
Why Should I Create A Triptych?

Learn why combining different shots together as one can produce great looking art work.
- 4 Sep 2016
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Photographing People In Markets

Markets are a great location for photography, especially for shots of people.
- 24 Sep 2016
Photoshop Tutorial: Adding textures

Putting a texture into a photograph can create interesting and unique results. Here's how you can do it.
- 13 Jan 2011
How To Use Lightroom's Crop and Rotate Tools

We show you how to improve a photo using Adobe Lightroom's crop and rotate tools
- 11 Sep 2012
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Beginner's Tips - How To Capture Motion In Your Images

Here are a few tips on capturing a sense of motion in your shots.
- 25 Sep 2016
9 Bad Weather Photography Tips

Learn how you can keep taking photos even if the weather's not playing ball with these 9 tips.
- 22 Nov 2015
Focal lengths in portraits

Duncan Evans goes on a whirlwind tour of focal lengths when shooting portraits and explains what not to shoot.
- 28 Jun 2007
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Photographing Flower Blooms With A Lightbox

Denise Ippolito shows us how to take great shots of flower petals with a lightbox and some simple post processing.
- 12 Mar 2013
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