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Outdoor Family Portraits | Backlighting Photography
© 2015 Wazari Wazir | My Family Having Fun at The Park To some photographers, backlighting is their worst nightmare, depending on situation of course, but for me I love backlighting because they are natural and I want to photograph it naturally, just the way it is. It can be tricky especially on your metering systems, but if you get it right, the result will be great. This is not really a photography session, so it wasn’t that perfect, actually we were just spending few hours jogging at the park and then, I saw this beautiful warmth morning sunrise and decided to make a quick photographs of my family. Personally…
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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…
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Backlighting Photography Tips | Use Manual Focus
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Daughter | Backlighting Photography | 50 mm | ISO 200 | 1/400 | F/2 Previously I’d wrote about backlighting photography tips, but that one focus more about getting the right exposure, because shooting into the light or backlighting can be very tricky to get the right exposure, using Program Mode usually is not the right choice because your camera meter can easily be fooled by the huge amount of light coming to the lens and most of the times, your subject will get underexposed. So the best thing that you can do to overcome those problems is to switch to Manual Mode and…
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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…
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Family Portrait Photography | Having Fun With Backlighting
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Family Portrait Photography Session | having Fun With Backlighting This is a new location for me, well not really new actually but this is the first time I’m photographing here. I’ve been eyeing this place for quite sometime, I know that I will get a better light here especially is I shoot in the early morning or late afternoon and when the light or the weather is fine, I could get a best result. It was a small hill actually and from here we can get a better view of Kuala Lumpur skyline, famous Malaysia landmark such as Petronas Twin Tower and Kuala Lumpur…