• Art,  Expression,  Family,  Travel

    Basic Photography | The Art of Composition

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Paddy Field | Sungai Besar Selangor Photography is a highly subjective matter, especially when we talk about the artistic aspect of photography. Just like painting, some people can understand and appreciate abstract or modern art while others can only appreciate simple art or straight forward art where they can clearly see the subjective matter, whether it is a portrait or  landscape where abstract art is a little bit complicated to be understand for most people on the street including me. Personally for me, when it comes to composition, it is also a subjective matter, yes we all know about rule of third, golden rules and…

  • Art,  Family,  Moment,  People

    Basic Digital Photography Tips | How To Choose The Right ISO For Your Digital Photography

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Joy of Reading | ISO 1000 | 1/60 | f/5.6 | 10-20mm UWA Lens © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Jumping With Joy | ISO 5000 | 1/125 | f/4.8 | 10-20mm UWA Lens Before I go further I would like to let you know what is ISO stand for. ISO is International Standard Organization or The International Organization for Standardization. In plain English it  is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations. Enough about that, I don’t want to go deeper about that organization, all I wanted to share with you here is the relation of ISO with photography, photographers often talk about ISO,…

  • Art,  Expression,  Family,  Moment,  Portrait

    Newborn Photography Tips | Adding a Touch of Retro Style

    @ Wazari Wazir | Newborn Photography | My Son | Raphael According to Wikipedia Retro is a culturally outdated or aged style, trend, mode, or fashion, from the overall postmodern past, that has since that time become functionally or superficially the norm once again. The use of “retro” style iconography and imagery interjected into post-modern art, advertising, mass media, etc. It generally implies a vintage of at least 15 or 20 years. Personally I like the outdated look, for me it have character, add weighted to the photograph, that’s why you will see a lot of photographers especially those who call themselves as an artistic portrait photographer like to add a little…

  • Expression,  Family,  Portrait,  Portraiture

    Basic Photography | Tips & Technique | How To Get Sharp Images With 50mm Lens

    50mm Lens can be considered as the most popular portrait lens, I think most people have one in their camera bag. The reason is simple, 50mm lens is the most affordable lens with good quality glass. The most popular one is 50mm f/1.8, whether you are Nikon or Canon owner, this is the most affordable one and a little bit expensive one is 50mm f/1.4 or Canon f/1.2 ( Expensive ), at the moment of writing Nikon does not produce new 50mm f/1.2 manual lens, they only have 50mm f/1.2 manual lens, maybe they will have it in the future. Another reason why 50mm is the most favorite lens is…

  • Art,  Editing,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Basic Photography | RAW vs JPEG | Why I Shoot RAW and Why You Shouldn’t

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | Blue Mosque | Istanbul Turkey I don’t want to write a lengthly post about this RAW vs Jpegs, I don’t want to waste your time and my times writing something that unimportant here. First of all I would like to make things clear that Great picture is a great picture, it is not necessarily shot in RAW format, it is just a file format which have it’s advantage and disadvantage. Yes I shoot RAW but I don’t shoot RAW all the times, before we go further and before you asked me what is the benefit of shooting RAW vs Jpeg, I would like to point…