• Art,  Emotion,  Moment,  People,  Travel

    Natural and Available Light Portrait Photography | Why High ISO Matters

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Putra Mosque Putrajaya | ISO 2000 | f/5 | 1/100 | 24mm Does Hight ISO Matters? You may get a different answers from one photographer to another, depending on whom you ask, depending on their chosen photographic genre. If you ask landscape photographers, they usually don’t bother so much about it because most of the times, they will be shooting on tripod with long exposure, they will use the Lowest ISO possible to get the best result and having a camera with the ability to shoot at High ISO is not their concern. Same goes to fashion photographers who like to shoot in the studio…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Expression,  Portrait

    Children Black and White Portraiture

    © 2008 Wazari Wazir | Black and White Portrait of My Son | HaiQal “When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes.  But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!”  – Ted Grant – Tweet news and informationbusiness,health,entertainment,technology automotive,business,crime,health,life,politics,science,technology,travel

  • Art,  Emotion,  Face,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Basic Photography | Improve Your Photograph With The Right Cropping

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Expressive Portrait Photography | Improve Your Photograph With The Right Cropping In photography cropping is also the way how you compose your photograph but normally we use composition technique when it comes to picture taking process and we use crop when it comes to editing in Photoshop or in any photo editing software but basically they are more or less quite the same. During picture taking process you can crop the picture in the frame which we call “composition” meaning that you choose what should be in the frame and cut out unwanted part with careful composition. Cropping is also part of editing skills apart…

  • Art,  Emotion,  Expression,  Family,  Portrait

    Photography Composition Tips | Negative Space

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Take a Break With Ice Cream | 50mm | f/1.8 | 1/640 | ISO 200 Basically Negative space is the space within a photograph which is left unused. Negative space is a great way to help add emphasis to your main subject. Negative space usually is an empty space, it is not an important part of the photograph and usually we don’t focus on that area and most of the times we leave the empty space out of focus or blur but nevertheless if we use it wisely it can have a profound impact to the photograph. Actually there are three main component when it comes…

  • Art,  Family,  Moment,  Travel

    Basic Photography | Composition and Storytelling

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Son Having Fun at Independence Square | Dataran Merdeka | Kuala Lumpur Photographers always associate composition as The Art of Seeing, Composition is a key element of good photographs. How you compose your picture will have an impact on how it will perceived by the viewers. There is so much you can show and there is so little that you can show depending on your intention. If you just wanted to show your subject (portrait) then maybe using fast lens with big aperture will throw away the background and make your subject stand out, make it the main focus in the photograph. On the other hand if…