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Portrait Photography | Expression Beats Perfection
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Son | Blue Valley | Cameron Highlands “Epression beats perfection any day of the week, and if you have the most perfect photograph in the universe it’s a zero if you have no expression from your subjects.” – Bambi Cantrell – When it comes to portrait photography, I’ve to agree with Bambi Cantrell quote above “Expression Beats Perfection”. If you are familiar with portrait photography, more or less the pose is almost the same but what makes each portrait differ from one another is the expression from the subjects, whether they are smiling, laughing, serious or sad looking face. There is so much…
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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…
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Photography and Artistic Vision
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | RAW File Unedited | Taj Mahal | Agra | India © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Edited With Photoshop Tone | Taj Mahal | Agra | India © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Monochromatic | Taj Mahal | Agra | India First and foremost if you call yourself as a “purist” in photography, then you should leave this post, there is no point wasting your time reading my musings and rant here, it is better for for you to take the camera and shoot something rather than wasting your time reading my blog here. On the other hand if you like editing, then please stay with me,…
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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…
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Photography and Photoshop Editing
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Putrajaya Botanical Garden © 2011 Wazari Wazir | (Left) RAW Unedited | (Right) Edited in Photoshop To be honest with you, I hate to write about this topic and I hate it when someone say that a photograph look great because if editing and they tend to forget the photography factor to get the shot, to get it right in the camera. I will write based on my personal experience. Whether you want to edit or not, it’s up o you, it’s your photograph, it’s your work and it’s your masterpiece, you can be purist and stick with a traditional photographic approach or embrace new…