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Travel Photography | How To Photograph Strangers
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of an Old Man at Bhaktapur | Nepal | 50 mm “I am a nutty traveler. I never hide myself during I am photographing or traveling. I interact with the community whom I go to visit. I give them time to understand me and I take time to understand them. In any place you will find children and dogs first to welcome you. They will follow you and you have to win their hearts. If they accept you then the community will accept you. Documentary/travel/street whatever photography I am doing I always know I have to respect people and their thought. If someone refused…
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Travel Photography | Which Lens is Best for Travel Photography?
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Photographer Shukur Jahar Surrounded By Curious Onlooker at Bhaktapur | Nepal “Photographers like Cartier-Bresson would only use one or two lenses, and work mostly in available light. I think the simplicity in this approach creates a timeless quality. To focus overly on the technical approach detracts from the power of the image in its own right.” – Steve McCurry – First thing first, are you hoping to become the next legendary National Geographic Photographer, Steve McCurry? If you have no idea who the hell he is, and have to Google his name, I think it’s going to be hard for you. Anyway Steve McCurry is…
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Photography Tips | Why Some Photograph Should be in Colours?
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | People Walking on The Street of Bhaktapur | Nepal Canadian, photojournalist, Ted Grant once said, “when you photograph people in colour, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls!”. Yes, most of the times it’s true, especially regarding people photography but it is not always true. Sometimes by photographing people in colours, with their colourful clothing, you also photograph their belief, their cultures, ethnics, race and religion as well. Take a look a of photograph of people during Holi Festival in India, Holi Festival is Indian Festival of Colors, where people dance and celebrate and throw coloured powder at each other. I…
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Travel and Photography | A Glimpse of Bhaktapur
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | An Old Man Sitting On a Roadside in Bhaktapur It is not difficult to spot an old man sitting on a roadside in Bhaktapur, plenty of them, there is a lot of temples and porches in Bhaktapur and there are the favourite place for this men to have a great time with their friends. Sometimes it is too perfect, it’s like you are inside a movie set up. Sometimes, there are a group of them, wearing a beautiful Nepali Topi or “Dhaka Topi”, actually The hat is made of a fabric called “Dhaka”. Sometimes when a group of them sitting on a porches, it looks so…
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Travel Photography | Bhaktapur at Night | Why You Don’t Need Flash Here?
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Night Activity at Bhaktapur | Bhairabnath Temple | Taumadhi Tole Square Bhaktapur | Nepal | 50 mm | ISO 2500 The photograph above were taken at Bhaktapur, just after the sunset. They were chanting and playing some kind of a traditional musical instrument. The light were so dim, it was very dark, the only source of light there coming from the candles. Anyway my point here is that, sometimes, especially those who are new in photography tend to pop up their build in flash or quickly attach a flash to the camera hot shoe and take the shot. The result that you get when using a flash…