• Art,  Family,  Moment

    Basic Photography | Tips For Natural Light Photography

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Newborn Photography | My Son Raphael | 50mm | ISO 200 | f/2.0 | 1/1600 It is no secret that I use natural light for most of my son pictures, I don’t like using flash when it comes to photographing my son, I like to keep it natural and even though I know that flash can help me in certain situation when the lighting is bad, I choose not to use it. I take picture of my son just for my family, I don’t do business taking picture of other people children. So I can choose when to shoot and when not to shoot, when…

  • Art,  Emotion,  Family,  Life,  Moment

    Basic Photography Composition | Balancing Elements in Photography

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Harmony With Nature | My Wife and My Son | Kuala Lumpur Bird Park Malaysia Among the most talk about when it comes to photography composition is “The Rule of Thirds” or in simple words is to place your main subject off-centre whether you put your subject close to the right or close to the left but not in the centre of the frame, and in photography we refer that kind of composition as “The Rule of Thirds”. It is not really a rules but more about “guide”, something that we refer to make our composition much more pleasing or aesthetic to our eyes. But…

  • Art,  Family,  Melayu,  Travel

    Basic Photography Tips | Using Leading Lines for Captivating Composition

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Pantai Sawangan Jetty | Kuala Penyu Sabah © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Children Playground | Lake Garden | Taman Tasik Perdana | Kuala Lumpur Taking picture is easy but to really get a beautiful picture in term of having an aesthetic value that was pleasing to the eye is not as easy as pressing the shutter button on the camera. That’s why it is good if we have some basic understanding about something that we used to called it as “The Rule of Photography” even though I like it to be called as a “Photographers Guide” rather than rules. In term of composition, there is…

  • Expression,  Face,  Family,  Moment,  People,  Portrait

    Children Photography | A Moment to Remember

    © 2008 Wazari Wazir | A Moment To Remember | Mother and Son       “There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained”    – Winston Churchill –  This is not the latest picture of my second child Raphael, it is my first son HaiQal, in case you miss the caption up there, it was taken in 2008 when he is one year old. It was truly a moment to be remembered. For those of you who have been following my blog or my flickr, will notice…

  • Family,  Life,  Moment

    Children and Toys | A Child Best Friends

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Son HaiQal and His Toys | Getting Organized I don’t have much to write here, just wanted to share with you a picture of my son and his toys. I guess he was so lucky to have so many toys unlike me when I was a little child, I used to make my very own toys back then, making our own  kite, making our own weapon from the plank of woods and few other things. Maybe at that time, there were not many toys available and furthermore we seldom get a chance to visit the city, I mean my family seldom take us to…