Portraiture
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Portrait Photography | How To Get Muted Colors
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Portrait | Muted Colors Some people like to call it muted colors, some people like to call it less color, fade color. Anyway basically it is about less colors, less saturate, subtle colors. Soft or pale color without too much contrast. Whatever you like to called it, it is about less color, almost monochromatic but yet still maintain some colors. So how do we get that color. How to achieve this kind of colors? Actually there are many ways to achieve this kind of look, I’ve try few ways in Photoshop to get this kind of effect. You can do it by reducing the saturation…
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Portrait Photography | Attitude
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | Portrait Photography Usually I don’t do this kind of editing, montage or super imposed photography, I used to like it when I was starting up learning about Photoshop, I like to experiment with new things, it is learning process, I like to do cut and paste in photoshop, taking one picture and put it on top of another, make full used of layers in the Photoshop but after awhile, I get bored and that’s why I just do single editing, I mean, I don’t do super imposed anymore, I just do an enhancement for one single photographed and not making multiple photograph in a single…
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Black and White Portraits Photography
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Black and White Photography Colors are good, colors are great but personally I think when it comes to portrait photography where certain mood or emotion is concern, nothing can beat black and white photography. I’ve done two version of editing for this picture, one is colors but the other one is black and white and I think monochrome speaks louder, express better. I think black and white convey better for this particular picture. Black and white is classic, black and white is pure, black and white is here to stay for as long as photography is concern. Black and white are very good at eliminating…
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Portrait Photography | The Power of Simplicity
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Portrait Photography | Simplicity “The Ability to Simplify Means to Eliminate the Unnecessary so that the Necessary May Speak.” | Hans Hofmann When it comes to portrait photography, I like to keep things simple, the first thing that I will pay a very close attention is the background, I will try to find a clean, uncluttered background for my subject. This is vital, this is very important because background can make or break a portrait shot, I don’t want my background to take away viewers attention from the main subject. The background not only have to be clean but the color of the background is…
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Blog | Blogging to Unblock
Above is a file picture taken in December 2008, during book signing session titled “Blogging to Unblock”, by Malaysian Former Prime Minister, Tun Mahathir Mohamad at MPH Bookstore. I choose to focus on the book and leaving Mahathir behind blur, out of focus but I guess everyone here in Malaysia will recognize him even though the image is blur. In my line of duty I really have a lot to share about my work but I find it difficult to put my thought in my blog. Maybe I was too lazy or maybe I was too busy with something else but the truth is I really have a lot to…