Photoshop
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Basic Photography | Improve Your Photograph With The Right Cropping
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Expressive Portrait Photography | Improve Your Photograph With The Right Cropping In photography cropping is also the way how you compose your photograph but normally we use composition technique when it comes to picture taking process and we use crop when it comes to editing in Photoshop or in any photo editing software but basically they are more or less quite the same. During picture taking process you can crop the picture in the frame which we call “composition” meaning that you choose what should be in the frame and cut out unwanted part with careful composition. Cropping is also part of editing skills apart…
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Photography and Photoshop Editing
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Putrajaya Botanical Garden © 2011 Wazari Wazir | (Left) RAW Unedited | (Right) Edited in Photoshop To be honest with you, I hate to write about this topic and I hate it when someone say that a photograph look great because if editing and they tend to forget the photography factor to get the shot, to get it right in the camera. I will write based on my personal experience. Whether you want to edit or not, it’s up o you, it’s your photograph, it’s your work and it’s your masterpiece, you can be purist and stick with a traditional photographic approach or embrace new…
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Portrait Photography Tips | Get Closer
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait of My Son “If Your Pictures Aren’t Not Good Enough, You’re Not Close Enough.” – Robert Capa – Sometimes it was true, that our picture is not good enough if we are not close enough. But when it comes to portrait photography, we have to look it in a different ways, sometimes we need to leave some space for that particular person to have a room for breath or to have something in the background to add context to the photograph especially if we are talking about environmental portraiture where we need to show to the viewers about the subject, where he work,…
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Creative Photography | Using Slow Shutter Speeds to a Create Sense of Motion
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Blurry Vision | Royal Malay Regiment at Parliament Square | 18-70mm | f/16 | 1/40 | ISO 200 While waiting for the events to begin I like to play around to keep me busy. This photograph were taken during welcoming ceremony of the visited Vietnam’s President Truong Tan Sang to Malaysia. The subject here is the Guard of Honour from Royal Malay Regiment. Usually for this kind of event, we the media members arrive at the location one hour before the event start, just to get to know the flow of the event, but actually the flow of the event is almost the same but…
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Photoshop Tips and Tricks | How To Get Retro Color Effects
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Wife and My Son Raphael Back From The Clinic | Retro Color Effect There are many ways to get this effects, retro effect or old school kind of effect where we try to mimics the look of early 60s or 70s photograph where they lack contrast, a bit fade and lot’s of grain. The easiest way is off course to use a camera film, use High ISO Film like ISO 400 to 1600 and if you use expired roll of film, maybe you will get a better result, “better” here I mean not beautiful but better in term of mimicking the look of old…