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Location Portrait Photography | KLCC Children Playground
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Son Playing at KLCC Kuala Lumpur City Centre | Children Playground Some people will call this as Environmental Portrait Photography, while others people like to called it as On Location Portraiture, where you shoot your subject at the location, preferred by you or your subject instead of in the studio. Among the advantage of shooting on location is that your subject can relax, play around maybe if it was a child or just simply hanging around. Among other main disadvantage for on location portrait photography is the weather and the lighting, you can’t control the weather and you can’t control the lighting, unless you…
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Photography | Family Portraiture
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Family Portraiture | Azman Jumat and Family | Kiram Village Mesilau This is my best friend family Azman Jumat with his wife Juliah Karim and his son Aidid Aliyan . They are more than just a friend to me, more like a family to me. I used to stay at his home if I’ve an assignment there in Kota Kinabalu, if I come alone. This is a family trip actually, we stay at lovely Kiram Village Kundasang Sabah. This place is not very far from Mesilau Nature Resort and Mount Kinabalu Golf Club, great escapade from Kota Kinabalu City Center. I can write long post…
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Photography | What is EXIF Data? | What Can You Learn From Photo EXIF Data
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | The Photographer and His Camera | My Son Actually First of all, what is EXIF, what it stand for? EXIF stand for Exchangeable image file format (Exif) is a specification for the image file format used widely by digital camera. EXIF was created by the Japan Electronic Industries Development Association (JEIDA). Version 2.1 of the specification is dated June 12, 1998, and the latest, version 2.3 dated April 2010, was jointly formulated by JEITA and CIPA. Though the specification is not currently maintained by any industry or standards organization, its use by camera manufacturers is nearly universal. The metadata tags defined in the Exif standard cover a broad spectrum: Date…
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Photoshop Editing | Before and After Enhancement
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Original RAW File | Just Convert to JPG © 2010 Wazari Wazir | After Photoshop Editing Color Enhancement I just wanted to share with you before and after Photoshop Editing. Most of the times I shoot RAW and as many people know that, RAW files tend to be dull in color, lack contrast but if you do it right, all the hidden colors will come alive. There are many way to enhance a color in Photoshop or in Lightroom, some way are better than the other. As for me I like to combine all of them and see which one work better, I’m in the…
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Portrait Photography | Black and White | Retro Look
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Black and White | Portrait Photography Just like color photography where we can play with the tone, black and white photography is no exception, I mean there are variety of black and white tones, some may prefer it to be solid from pure white to deep solid black white some others just like a “shade of grey” kind of thing. Some people prefer the back and white to be grainy, while others like it to be clean, some people like their black and white to have a film look like they are taken with Kodak Professional TRI-X 400 Film. It doesn’t matter which type you prefer, it’s…