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Photojournalism | The Photographers and Camera Equipment
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | The Photojournalist During UMNO General Assembly 2011 at Putra World Trade Centre PWTC | Kuala Lumpur It is always interesting to read a debate or discussion about whether it is the camera or is it the person behind the camera that make a difference, some people say, the camera doesn’t matter but the photographers and vice versa. You will get a different answer depending who you ask. I don’t want to wasting my time discussing about that in depth but just wanted to share something with you that maybe will gives you a better understanding about the camera equipment that we photojournalist use. The photographs…
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Photography Composition Tips | Fill The Frame
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Guard of Honor | Parliament Square | Kuala Lumpur If you want your photograph to have more visual impact to the viewers, “Filling the Frame” is the answer. Great photographers knows what to include and what to exclude in their photograph, off course you should not fills your frame all the time but you must take into consideration what should goes into the frame. If by including the background or the environment will make your photograph have more impact, then by all mean, please do so but if you think the background only make your photograph look messy or cluttered then exclude them. To fill…
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Photojournalism | The Official Assignment
© Wazari Wazir | Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak (L) With Right Honourable Pakalitha Mosisili, Prime Minister of Lesotho during official welcoming ceremony outside Prime Minister office in Putrajaya, outskirts of Kuala Lumpur on May 5th 2011. Just wanted to share with you some of the picture taken during The Official Visit of The Right Honourable Pakalitha Mosisili Prime Minister of Lesotho and Mrs. Mathato Mosisili to Malaysia from 4-7 My 2011. This photograph were taken outside Prime Minister Office in Putrajaya during a photo call. The photograph above were shot with 300 mm f2.8 lens because the distance between us the photographers were quite far from where they were…
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Photojournalist and Bounce Flash
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Photojournalist at Work With Bounce Flash I’ve written an article not too long ago about why Photojournalist seldom use bounce flash when taking picture, most of the times, they will use direct flash for their assignment. As a Photojournalist myself I’ve write in the article about why we photojournalist don’t use a direct flash in certain circumstances. You can read about direct flash syndrome HERE In that article, I’ve mention that we as a photojournalist captured a moment not create a moment, so that when dealing with a person especially high profile personality, we usually don’t have much time to “make a picture”. What we can…
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The Photographers | Men in Black
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Prime Minister Office | Putrajaya © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Prime Minister Office | Putrajaya Men in Black, this is how we look like during coverage of The Official Visit of Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard to malaysia recently. We just finished sending our pictures to respective agency and while waiting for some of our friends who have not finish their editing, captioning and sending their pictures to their agency, we decided to have some fun. Most of the times we are too busy photographing other people but ourselves. We are not dress to impress but we are required to dress like this in order…