• Art,  Expression,  Face,  Family

    Backlit or Backlighting Photography Tips for Portraiture

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Backlighting Photography Tips | Canon 5D Mark II | 50mm | ISO 160 | 1/1000 | f/2 I’ve written a lot of backlighting photography tips, you can check my previous post regarding on camera metering to get the best exposure for your subject. In this blog post I just wanted to share a simple tips that is suitable for portrait photography in backlit situation. As the name suggest, backlit or backlighting refer to the light coming behind your subject, in this case, behind the person you’re photographing. Normally you the photographer are facing the sun and the sun is behind your subject or the person…

  • Book,  Expression,  Portrait

    Photography Tips On How To Get Your Photography Noticed

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | HaiQal Photograph on The Cover of CONFRONTATION Book A lot has been said and written about getting your photograph noticed, among the suggestion is to enter photography forum, join photography contest, join photography exhibition and maybe talk to your favourite photography magazine about your photograph or tell them that you have a great photo essay that might be interesting for their readers. All those things has their own merit on getting your photograph noticed out there, maybe in the end someone might wanted to buy your photograph or simply wanted to hire you to take a picture for them. The thing is, you need to…

  • Black and White,  Family,  Moment

    Children Photography | Joy of Childhood in Black and White

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | HaiQal and Raphael Playing Together | Children Photography “When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.” – Patrick Rothfuss – Tweet news and informationbusiness,health,entertainment,technology automotive,business,crime,health,life,politics,science,technology,travel

  • Art,  Family,  Light,  Moment

    Natural Light Photography | Backlighting Photography Tips

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Arianna | Backlighting Photography | 50mm | ISO 200 | f/2 | 1/500 © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Simple Editing in Adobe Lightroom 5 | Before (RAW) and After Some photographers hate backlighting while others love it. Yes backlighting can be tricky, most of the time when photographing your subject against a strong light that comes from their back is tricky and most of the times your subject will look too dark in the photograph. The reason is simple your camera try to compensate the strong lighting that came from the back hence you get a little bit of underexpose picture. The problem arise most…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Family

    Newborn Photography Tips | How To Get a Black Background

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | My Daughter Arianna | 50 mm | ISO 200 | 1/80 | F/2.8 This is among my favourite pose for my little baby, I’ve done similar pose for my my sons HaiQal and Raphael when they were few weeks old and this time it’s for my daughter Arianna. A lot of my friends had asked me on how I did this photograph, actually it was pretty simply, you don’t need expensive studio lighting, you don’t even need a flash because I’m using a natural late afternoon light here. But off-course you need some other materials other than your DLSR and I believe those of you…