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Photography | The Elements of Style
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son | Black and White Some people might find it difficult to accept a portrait picture in a square format. When we talk about portrait, we imagine a picture of a person in a vertical format not a square format like what I like to do, like what I’m sharing it here. It’s not really my style because square format have been used long time ago made popular by Hasselblad camera with their classic 6×6 cm square film format. I don’t know why, but I simply love this type of square format. I rarely shoot film these days but I like the look…
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Child Photography Tips | Joy of Childhood
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Joy of Childhood | Petronas Twin Tower KLCC Child photography will always be a challenge especially if it involved our very own child, they will never stand still, always on the move, full of energy. In this post I’m going to talk about how we can freeze those great moment. The most important thing that need to keep in mind is this, always make sure that we use a very fast shutter speed when photographing a children especially if they are on the move. For the picture above I shutter speed 1/160, aperture f8 and using ISO 100. It is not fast enough but nevertheless…
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Portrait Photography | Child Photography Tips
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son | Tasik Perdana | Kuala Lumpur The truth to be told is that, child photography will never be easy, at least for me. I can only talk about my experience taking picture of my son because I don’t do child photography business. I think the most important thing that we must have if we want to photographed a child (I’m talking about our own children) is patient, lots of it. I’ve been photographing my son for almost four years already, I’ve been taking picture of him just few minutes after he was born and never get tired of it. It never…
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Environmental Portrait Photography | Belly Dancers at Moroccan Pavilion
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | Belly Dancers | Moroccan Pavilion | Botanical Garden Putrajaya In my previous article I’ had written props, how sometimes a good set of props or supporting element can make or break any portraiture session. The other thing that can make or break a portrait session is the costume and the choice of location for the photo shoot. The right costumes with the right background usually will produce a great portrait or if I can say, a great environmental portrait where people can relate into it. This Belly Dancers photo outing was organize by friend of mine Dominic Song at Moroccan Pavilion in Putrajaya on the…
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Portrait Photography Tips | The Props
© 2008 Wazari Wazir | Senior Portrait Photography | Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia We have to admit that posing does not comes naturally for most of us. As a photographers sometimes we find it hard for us to direct a model or a person how to pose in front of the camera, unless we are photographing a professional model with years of experience in modelling. Among the most difficult part to pose is the position of the hand. It may look among the smallest part on the human body but most of the times the hand position can make or break a good portrait shot. Sometimes we have no idea…