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Child Photography | Being Happy
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Being Happy Running Here and There People say “childhood is the best time of your life.”. They have nothing much to worry about, they have no bills to pay, no dateline to meet, they don’t have to work, everything was provided by their parent but then again if we look from a bigger perspective, there are children not too far from our home, not too far from our country who struggle to have something to eat for a day especially in a war torn country like in Afghanistan, Iraq and currently at some Middle East country like Yemen, Libya and Tunisia and most recently in…
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Photography | Selective Focus
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Son Playing With Danbo | Selective Focus “Selective focus” means the use of a shallow depth of field to isolate or emphasize the subject in the photograph. Most of the times we only want certain part in the photograph to be in focus. In photography, we use a large aperture to isolate the subject from the background, by using a large aperture like f2.8. That is why photographers love to have a fast lens in their possession. It is a valuable tools that will help them separate their main subject from the background. One thing that should be always on our mind when using…
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The Portrait Photographer | Personnel Connection
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | The Photographer in Action | Sungai Gabai | Selangor It was very easy for anyone to say that they too can take great portrait like National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry get if they were at the same place where Steve took the photographed. They think that they too can get a great Portrait of Afghan Girl just like what Steve captured if they were there too. Yes, it was easier to said than done, the truth is taking picture of a human is difficult. If you have read about the Sharbat Gula, the iconic Afghan girl that grace the National Geographic Magazine cover in June 1985…
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Photojournalism and Photoshop
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Malaysia Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin Having a Chat With Kerdau Folks © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Malaysia Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, Sharing a Light Moment With The Resident of Kampung Ketam in Kerdau After Performing Asar Prayer. Just a quick post here after a hectic assignment covering Kerdau State By-Elections in Pahang. Most people who have been following me in this blog know that I like playing around with Adobe Photoshop editing software, in fact, I have an eBook about how to play around with tones and texture in Photoshop just in case someone interested to buy. I work in Photojournalism line, most…
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Action Photography | Slow Shutter Speed For Sense of Movement
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | Belly Dancer | Moroccan Pavilion Putrajaya Have you ever seen a whirling dervishes? It is one of the symbol of Turkey tourism. Sufi whirling (or Sufi spinning), is a physically active meditation which originated among Sufis especially in Konya Turkey. If you have ever seen those “Whirling Dervishes” picture on the internet or in the magazine, most of the time you will see a a blurred kind of a picture, it is rare to see a whirling dervishes picture in a static movement, usually a photographer will use a slow shutter speed to captured that beautiful dancers in motion, captured their sense of movement gracefully. Actually when…