Portrait
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Portrait Photography | The Eyes are The Window of The Soul
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Portrait Photography | The Eyes are The Window of The Soul Lately I like to take a Photograph of my son with iPhone camera, it was so easy to use and I can take picture of my son playing with his toys without annoying him too much. But still may my arsenal will always be a DSLR, I like the detail that DSLR can captured but I also like to have a choice especially if I wanted to take a picture of my son on the fly because the iPhone always there with me and unlike DSLR which I don’t carry it around the clock…
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Master of Colors eBook | Review By Jeffrey K. Edwards
© 2011 Jeffrey K. Edwards | Original Photograph © 2011 Jeffrey K. Edwards | After Editing With Master of Colors eBook The internet is an amazing tool for communication. Two weeks ago I was able to “skype” with a colleague in Mozambique about the HIV epidemic they are battling. This week I was in touch with Wazari Wazir, who has become a good friend simply by email, all the way from Malaysia. He is an esteemed photojournalist for the Malaysian government and a freelance photographer/instructor. Wazari has written several ebooks on photography and postprocessing work with photoshop which I have learned much from. His latest ebook, “Master of Colors” is…
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Back and White iPhoneography | It’s The Moment That Matters
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Family Having Breakfast | Photograph With iPhone | iPhoneography When Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple unveiled the iPhone on January 2007 I’ve always dreaming of having one. I’ve to admit that I was Apple fan but to to the extend of being fanatic. My first computer is MacBook Pro and my second computer also MacBook Pro and I will always choose Mac computer if I need to get another computer in case of my Laptop broke beyond repair or too expensive to fix it. I wish I can get my hand on Apple iPhone on that time, I wish I’ve the money to get…
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Child Portraiture | Extreme Close-Up | Expressive Portraiture
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son | Extreme Close Up | Expressive Portraiture “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough” – Robert Capa – Extreme portrait shot of my son above were taken with my favorite 50mm lens shoot at ISO 200 at n aperture of f2, I just add the grain in Photoshop to make it look like film effect. I rarely shoot my son picture at Higher ISO, unless I don’t have much choice like in the book store for an example where the light is quite dim. This is a crop version from the actual photograph where full head and shoulder were in…
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Portrait Photography | Backlighting Photography Tips
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son | ISO 200 | 50mm | F2.0 | 1/640 | Spot Metering Talking about Backlighting in photography, some photographers either like it or hate it as simple as that. One of the reason why they hate it maybe because it is so hard to control the exposure especially if we are shooting with a Program Mode, because most of the time our subject will look dark. I like backlighting simply because I like the mood and the flare that it produce, and I want to keep it that way. Most of the times a photograph will look imperfect when we are…