• Art,  Editing,  Photoshop,  Travel

    Photography | The RAW Advantage

    18/05/2012 /

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Winter in Kashmir | Snow White What is RAW? The RAW file format is digital photography’s equivalent of a negative in film photography, it contains untouched, “raw” pixel information straight from the digital camera’s sensor, on the other hand  if you shoot in  JPEG, the camera will do some post processing for you and as a result some of the details will be thorn away, or will be lost, and that’s why the JPEG file is small compared to RAW file and don’t be surprise to see that your JPEG files is better looking at your computer screen than your RAW files, the reason is that the…

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  • Art,  Photoshop,  Travel

    Winter Photography | Tips Shooting in The Snow

    17/05/2012 /

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Winter Photography in Kashmir | February 2012 © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Snow White | Winter in Kashmir | Adobe Photoshop Camera RAW | 24mm | ISO 200 | 1/640 | f/8 Exposure can be very critical when shooting snow, most of the times your camera meter tend to underexposed the picture because your camera think that there is large white area in the frame and needs to underexposed to get a proper exposure. It is not adviseable shooting snow using Auto Mode, it doesn’t  matter whether you are using Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority of or fully Program Mode. All this metering will fool your…

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  • Art,  Family,  Moment,  Portrait

    Photography | What Camera Should I Buy?

    08/05/2012 /

    What camera should I buy? I’ve always get this kind of questions coming through my email. Yes I’ve been through this before but it was during camera film and back then it was not really difficult to make a decision, because there is no such things as Full Frame or Non Full Frame Camera and we have no problem about which camera is good when it comes to HIGH ISO performance, since the ISO is largely depend on the type of film that you are using and not like todays camera  whereby each camera from a different manufacture have different quality when it comes to High ISO performance, some camera…

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  • Art,  Black and White,  Editing,  Travel

    Travel Photography | Istanbul, Once Upon a Time

    21/03/2012 /

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Istanbul Turkey “If the earth was a single state, Istanbul would be its capital.”  – Napoleon Bonaparte – “If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.” – Alphonse de Lamartine – “If they say “you have your last chance to look at the world”, I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.” – Alphonse de Lamartine – “All other cities are doomed, but I imagine that as long as people exist, Constantinople will exist.” – Petrus Gyllius – “Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same…

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