Portraiture
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Family Photography | Having Fun At The Beach | Pantai Tengah Langkawi
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | My Family Having Fun at Pantai Tengah Langkawi This is our second time we spent our holiday as a family in Langkawi. Second time for HaiQal, my eldest son and first time for three year old Raphael and one year old Arianna, my only daughter. During our first visit we stayed at Federal Villa (The resort is just side by side with its sister resort, the Holiday Villa Beach Resort & Spa Langkawi) and this time we stayed at Holiday Villa. We like this place because Pantai (beach) Tengah is not as busy or as crowded as Cenang Beach which is separated by a small cape. The beach…
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Photography Tips | Simple Way on How To Get Great Bokeh
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Son | 50mm | f/1.8 | ISO 200 | 1/250 “Bokeh” has evolved somewhat from its original meaning. Bokeh is now commonly used to refer to blurred lights or shapes within an image, where as, the term more accurately describes the aesthetic quality of the out-of-focus area of a photograph. Therefore, it is possible to have ‘good’ or ‘bad’ bokeh, (although that is purely subjective), but in essence, it’s all about the area of an image that falls outside the depth-of-field. The term comes from the Japanese word boke (暈け or ボケ), which means “blur” or “haze”, or boke-aji (ボケ味), the “blur quality”.…
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Portrait Photography eBook | Forget Mugshots, Make Stronger Portraits by David duChemin
© 2012 Craft and Vision | eBook | Forget Mugshots, 10 Steps to Better Portraits by David duChemin Forget Mugshots, 10 Steps To Better Portraits is for every photographer who’s ever wanted to make stronger photographs of people. Written by David duChemin, a photographer whose living and calling for the last 6 years has been creating compelling portraits and people photographs for clients all over the globe, if he could tell you only 10 things to immediately improve your images, these 10 steps or concepts would be at the very top of the list. This 35-spread PDF eBook discusses the value of waiting for that great moment (and how to make…
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Basic Photography | Tips & Technique | How To Get Sharp Images With 50mm Lens
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Fine Art Portraiture | Black and White and Texture Photography
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Fine Art Portrait Photography | A Portrait of My Son “Photography is a craft. Anyone can learn a craft with normal intelligence and application. To take it beyond the craft is something else. That’s when magic comes in. And I don’t know that there’s any explanation for that.” – Elliot Erwitt – It’s been a hectic week for me from last Friday during my Photography and Photoshop Workshops with Spylens Studio held in Kota Kinbalu Sabah. I really need along break but still I like to play around with editing, something that I really like to do whenever I’ve a lot of free time which…