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Sea Gypsies | Life By The Sea | Content With Life
“Happiness Consists Not in Having Much, But in Being Content With Little.” – Marguerite Gardiner – I think the way I presented my picture will have an affect on the mood that the picture will convey. I guess if I choose to share this picture in colors, it will convey much more happy mood than what you are seeing here, but this is how I view the life around here, living the simple life, maybe by choice or maybe they don’t have any other choice or maybe they do have a choice but prefer to continue living like this. (I need to spent more times with them…
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Portrait Photography Tips | Get Closer
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait of My Son “If Your Pictures Aren’t Not Good Enough, You’re Not Close Enough.” – Robert Capa – Sometimes it was true, that our picture is not good enough if we are not close enough. But when it comes to portrait photography, we have to look it in a different ways, sometimes we need to leave some space for that particular person to have a room for breath or to have something in the background to add context to the photograph especially if we are talking about environmental portraiture where we need to show to the viewers about the subject, where he work,…
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Photoshop Tips and Tricks | How To Get Retro Color Effects
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Wife and My Son Raphael Back From The Clinic | Retro Color Effect There are many ways to get this effects, retro effect or old school kind of effect where we try to mimics the look of early 60s or 70s photograph where they lack contrast, a bit fade and lot’s of grain. The easiest way is off course to use a camera film, use High ISO Film like ISO 400 to 1600 and if you use expired roll of film, maybe you will get a better result, “better” here I mean not beautiful but better in term of mimicking the look of old…
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Travel Photography | New eBook – Andes by Andrew S. Gibson
© 2011 Craft and Vision | Andes The Print and The Process Series by Andrew S. Gibson Using both film and digital capture, Gibson captures the natural and majestic beauty of places like Machu Picchu; as well as, the rich culture and struggles of the Incas and their mountain lifestyle in a raw and intimate journey that is as much about photography as it is about adventure. Andrew is a gifted teacher and photographers will learn from this journey if they’re willing to join him. ( Source : Craft & Vision ) “Travel for many people is an unrealised dream. Things like the business of making a living, relationships and…
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Basic Photography Tips | Creative Use of Depth of Field
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Creative Use of Depth of Field | Motherhood | f1.8 | 1/640 | 50mm Lens Basically Depth of field (DOF) is the amount of your image that’s in focus. It is also refers to the range of distance that appears acceptably sharp. It varies depending on lens type, aperture and focusing distance. Depth of field (DOF) also is the distance in front and beyond the object that is in focus. Generally speaking also, if we want to get a greater Depth of Field, which is to have sharp image from foreground to background, you need to use smaller aperture like f8 and above to get everything sharp or…