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Photography Tips | Children Close Up Portraiture
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Close Up Portraiture of My Daughter Arianna “I always felt like the close-up portrait was the most essential, the most valid picture out there, it was just all about the person, not about their clothes, not about the environment, not about their background, not giving any hints to their social status.” – Martin Schoeller – Lately I like to do some kind of environmental portraiture shot for my family picture, I like to have some kind of background story about whereabout my subject, the places they have been to, for an instance, but in doing so, the portrait, I mean the face of the person in…
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Life is a Journey | Road Less Traveled | Bario Sarawak
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Road Less Traveled | Bario | Sarawak “The Road Of Life Twists And Turns And No Two Directions Are Ever The Same. Yet Our Lessons Come From The Journey, Not The Destination.” – Don Williams Jr – It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education in life from parents,teachers, and other authority figures, who should know better from their experience. Information is about facts. Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive. But no matter how much advice you get, you are the one who chooses which train to board.…
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Photography Tips | How To Get Beautiful Bokeh
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Daughter Arianna “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. In photography, the term bokeh represents the quality of the magical out-of-focus blur that makes it look like the subject is isolated from the background. It is visually appealing for…
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Photography Tips | Dealing With Low Light People Photography
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Buddhist Monk Light a Candles at Boudhanath Stupa | Kathmandu Nepal There are different type of situation when it comes to low light photography conditions. It can be landscape, architecture or simple people photography. The point is that, you are dealing with low light, very minimal light. Depending on the situation, our approach will differ, if you are shooting landscape or indoor architecture using only available light, using a tripod is a great help, so you can use Low ISO like ISO 100 or 200 and get all the details without increasing the ISO. But in this post I’m going to talk about photographing people…
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Photography Tips | How To Photograph Reflections In Water
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | An Abandon Debris of an Old Airplane at Bario Sarawak There are many tips on how to photograph reflections in water. The best time of the day, depending on location maybe during early morning or during late afternoon and if you choose to photograph a reflection at the lake where it was quite busy with the people like at Phewa Lake in Nepal is during early morning when the lake was calm (because less people paddling a boat on the lake, less ripples) , so there were no ripples in the water and you will get picture perfect postcard of Annapurna Range. It’s like a giant…