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Basic Photography | When and Why Do You Need Fast Lens?
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Son at Kinokuniya Book Store | 50mm | f/1.8 | 1/125 | ISO 1000 Before we talk about when and why do you need a fast lens, lets get to know what is fast lens for those of you who doesn’t know about it. Basically “Fast Lens” refer to the lens that have big aperture at its maximum aperture. Usually any lens that have its maximum aperture which start at f/2.8 and below is consider a fast lens. The reason that a lens with a big maximum aperture is referred to as fast is that it lets more light in and therefore you can use…
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Basic Photography | Point of View in Photography
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | HaiQal | Untitled Expression Basically POV or Point of View refer to the position from which the camera take the photograph. Are you taking the picture from above, looking down on the subject or are you taking the picture from lower angle, looking up at the subject and how close or how far between you and the subject. Normally most photographers took picture from their eye level, it is natural to do so, all we have to do is just raise the camera to our eyes and start composing the shot but sometimes this normal point of view tend to create a mundane or boring…
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Happy Birthday My Son | HaiQal Four Year Old
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Happy Birthday My Son | 50mm | ISO 1250 | f/2 | 1/40 Time flies when we enjoy the most. My son HaiQal is four year old today 22nd August 2011. Since we are in the middle of Ramadan, fasting month for muslim, we don’t make any birthday party for him. I just bought him a small birthday cake and light a candle and just let my son have all the fun. I don’t really celebrate birthday party actually, maybe because I’ve never celebrate it all my life. The reason we bought the cake is just to make him happy, to let him having fun…
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Basic Photography | Creative Use of Depth of Field
© 2008 Wazari Wazir | Little Fingers | Using Depth of Field Creatively Depth of field (DOF) by definition is the amount of your image that’s in focus or in another words is the distance in front and beyond the object that is in focus or sharp. There is a long discussing about depth of field on the internet, most of the discussion is more towards technical aspect of it rather than how you can use creative depth of field to your advantage. To make it easy for you, there are three things that will affect the depth of field, those thing are the size of Aperture that you use,…
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Basic Photography | Tips For Natural Light Photography
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Newborn Photography | My Son Raphael | 50mm | ISO 200 | f/2.0 | 1/1600 It is no secret that I use natural light for most of my son pictures, I don’t like using flash when it comes to photographing my son, I like to keep it natural and even though I know that flash can help me in certain situation when the lighting is bad, I choose not to use it. I take picture of my son just for my family, I don’t do business taking picture of other people children. So I can choose when to shoot and when not to shoot, when…