• Art,  Expression,  Family,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Portrait Photography | The Art of Backlighting

    21/03/2011 /

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son | ISO 200 | F2 | 1/1250 What is Backlighting?  As the name suggest, Backlighting refers to lighting in a photograph that comes from behind an object or a person. The lighting can be from many source, it can be a natural light or artificial light as long as the main source of the light coming from behind the subject, it is called a backlighting. Most of the times backlighting comes from ambient light around the subject of the photograph. If you look at the picture of my son above, the lighting coming from the early morning sunrise which is  from the right…

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  • Art,  Black and White,  Expression,  Family,  Portrait

    Digital Photography | Noise and Grain Factor

    20/03/2011 /

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son in Black and White | Photograph With Add Grain in Adobe Photoshop As the name suggest, “Noise” is something undesirable, unwanted thing, nobody wanted to be stranded in the middle of “Noisy” surroundings. People wanted to be in the peaceful environment, less “noise” to be exact but then again what it is all about when it comes to Digital Photography? What is “Noise” and what is “Grain”? Noise in digital photos consists of any undesirable flecks of random color in a portion of an image that should consist of smooth color. It is somewhat like a black fine sand scattered all…

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  • Art,  Black and White,  Family,  Moment,  Photojournalism,  Portrait

    Telling Stories With a Photograph | A Conversation With Mother

    18/03/2011 /

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | A Conversation With Mother at Kinokuniya Bookstore I personally think that the basis of a photography is to tell a story with a photograph, that’s why they called it a Photograph Worth a Thousand Words. A photograph is a visual language where most of the times people don’t need any explanation about the picture if it can tells a story on it’s own. Some photograph can be like an abstract where people don’t know head and tails about it until they read a caption about it while others is just pure and simple where people can easily understood about the story of the picture. I…

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  • Art,  Expression,  Face,  Life,  Moment,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Tips On Child Photography | Expressive Portraiture

    14/03/2011 /

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Expressive Portrait | Lake Garden Kuala Lumpur Children photography can be tough, it can be hard and never will be easy especially when it comes to photographing our very own child. Those who have a child on their own will surely know what I mean. Even though my son were get used being photograph since he was still a baby, it is never easy for me because he already knows every tricks that I use to get him sit or pause for a moment in front of the camera. I need to work really hard in order for me to get him stick for a…

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