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Location Portrait Photography | KLCC Children Playground
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Son Playing at KLCC Kuala Lumpur City Centre | Children Playground Some people will call this as Environmental Portrait Photography, while others people like to called it as On Location Portraiture, where you shoot your subject at the location, preferred by you or your subject instead of in the studio. Among the advantage of shooting on location is that your subject can relax, play around maybe if it was a child or just simply hanging around. Among other main disadvantage for on location portrait photography is the weather and the lighting, you can’t control the weather and you can’t control the lighting, unless you…
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Travel Photography | Sunrise at Mesilau Kundasang Sabah
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Sunrise at Mesilau | Kundasang Sabah | Mount Kinabalu Golf Club Mesilau derived its moniker from the small stream of yellow waterfall which the locals there claimed to have been originally yellow in colour (silou is Dusun for yellow). Located 2, 000 meters east of Kinabalu Park; it is home to amazing nature growing pitcher plants such as Nephenthes rajah. Mesilau Nature Park is situated just further up from Kundasang Dairy Farm and Kinabalu Golf Resort. Mesilau is situated some 100 kilometers from Kota Kinabalu by road or about approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes driving. Mesilau is practically the highest point accessible to automobiles; it…
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Portrait | Black and White Photography
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | My Son Playing With Puddle | Langkawi Kedah Some of you might not call this a black and white photograph but just a greyscale photograph. It doesn’t have that kind of deep solid black, just a shade of grey, you are right, this is not super deep rich black and white but that is not my point of this article. I know how to get a deep rich black and white but for this image I prefer it to be like this, a lighter version of black and white. I get a lot of emails asking me, how to know whether some picture will look…
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Taj Mahal India | The Big Picture
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Taj Mahal | Agra | The Crowd This is just a typical scene at Taj Mahal when the crowds start coming. Taj Mahal start opening around 06:00 A.M in the morning and Close at 07:00 P.M in the evening. Entry fee to get you here in Indian Rupee Rs750 or approximately USD17 per person, you can bring still camera at no extra charge, but no video camera allowed inside the Taj Mahal, but I guess if you are shooting with DSLR discreetly, nobody will notice. For those of you who are not very familiar with Taj Mahal, it was located in southeast from Delhi and…
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Portrait Photography Tips | How To Get Dark or Black Background
© 2008 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of HaiQal | 50mm | F1.8 | 1/125 | ISO 200 Sorry guys, I don’t have any new picture of my son HaiQal, so I hope you don’t mind if I’m sharing with you a picture of my son taken in 2008. Just don’t get me wrong, I still have great passion taking picture of my son, I’m not losing interest or busy with my work, the truth is, it become too difficult to get my son on the camera. He runs faster than I can catch my breath. Usually I will take a picture of my son just around my house but when…