Editing
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Basic Photography | RAW vs JPEG | Why I Shoot RAW and Why You Shouldn’t
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | Blue Mosque | Istanbul Turkey I don’t want to write a lengthly post about this RAW vs Jpegs, I don’t want to waste your time and my times writing something that unimportant here. First of all I would like to make things clear that Great picture is a great picture, it is not necessarily shot in RAW format, it is just a file format which have it’s advantage and disadvantage. Yes I shoot RAW but I don’t shoot RAW all the times, before we go further and before you asked me what is the benefit of shooting RAW vs Jpeg, I would like to point…
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Portrait Photography | Black and White Photography Tips
© 2008 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son | Mr Big Eyes When it comes to black and white portrait photography, I will always try to keep it simple. Uncluttered background, less distraction element. Black and white will not work well for every picture, only certain picture will really look great if we convert in into black and white photography. When I took this picture of my son in 2008, I have a clear idea, what the photograph will end up to be, I mean the finished product. I want to convert the photograph into black and white, so I will make sure all the element are there, I…
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Children Portrait Photography | Black and White Photography
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Children Portrait Photography I’ve always enjoy doing black and white photography, sometimes I like to get super deep rich black and sometimes I just like a lighter version of it, a little bit softer black and white or some people might called it as a shade of grey. Some people have asked me, what make good black and white picture, for me it is not an easy answer. It is personal and base on individual preference, we can choose whether we like super deep rich black and white or just a shade of grey. I think there are two type of a people who view…
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Basic Photography | Creative Photography by Using Slow Shutter Speed
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | Pulau Ketam | ISO 100 | Aperture f/10 | 1/20 Sometimes we need to think outside of the box to get a creative photograph, I was shooting this young lady with a group of a photographers at Pulau Ketam or Crab Island in Selangor, I just wanted to get a different shot, I don’t want standard static boring shot, I want to add some drama to my picture, so I decided to ask her to spin the umbrella, since the umbrella is colorful, I think it will look great if it was spinning. The problem is that, we are in a very bright area, very…
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Fine Art Portraiture | Black and White and Texture Photography
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Fine Art Portrait Photography | A Portrait of My Son “Photography is a craft. Anyone can learn a craft with normal intelligence and application. To take it beyond the craft is something else. That’s when magic comes in. And I don’t know that there’s any explanation for that.” – Elliot Erwitt – It’s been a hectic week for me from last Friday during my Photography and Photoshop Workshops with Spylens Studio held in Kota Kinbalu Sabah. I really need along break but still I like to play around with editing, something that I really like to do whenever I’ve a lot of free time which…