• Art,  Assignment,  Black and White,  Life,  Photojournalism,  Politic

    Photography | Photojournalism | Your Camera Does Matter

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Dr. Manmohan Singh ( L ) and Najib Tun Razak ( R ) | Prime Minister Office | Putrajaya The above picture is the latest high profile assignment that was assign to me from my photography department during Official Visit of His Excellency Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India and Mrs. Gursharan Kaur to Malaysia on 27th October in  outside Malaysia Prime Minister Office PMO Putrajaya. This is a photography blog so I will not write long history about Malaysia and India relationship and all other political news or related things, so I will focus on my job, my role as one of the…

  • Art,  Emotion,  Expression,  Photoshop,  Portrait,  Portraiture

    Portrait Photography | How To Get Muted Colors

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Portrait | Muted Colors Some people like to call it muted colors, some people like to call it less color, fade color. Anyway basically it is about less colors, less saturate, subtle colors. Soft or pale color without too much contrast. Whatever you like to called it, it is about less color, almost monochromatic but yet still maintain some colors. So how do we get that color. How to achieve this kind of colors? Actually there are many ways to achieve this kind of look, I’ve try few ways in Photoshop to get this kind of effect. You can do it by reducing the saturation…

  • Art,  eBook,  Emotion,  Family,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Portrait Photography | Ada Apa Dengan Tone?

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Selepas Tone | Edited © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Sebelum Tone | Original Ada apa dengan Tone? Takde apa, sajer jer, itu jawapan ringkas saya. Sebenarnya bagi saya lebih kepada cita rasa masing-masing, setiap dari kita berbeza, ada yang suka pedas, ada yang suka manis. Ada yang suka yang asli dan ada juga yang suka manipulasi dan bagi saya bila menyebut tone ni, ianya adalah manipulasi yang noleh dikatakan paling minimum, kita hanya “manipulate” warna sahaja bukan meletakkan sesuatu benda asing atau membuang benda asing di dalam gambar. Seperti yang saya katakan tadi, ada yang suka gambar “Asli”. Ada yang suka mengekalkan “skin tone” yang…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Life,  People,  Photoshop

    Photography | How To Choose a DSLR Camera

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | The Photographers Equipment | Parliament Square First of all, I would like to let you know that the above camera is not a DSLR but it was a film camera, among Nikon top of the line SLR camera before F6 coming out. I know you can find this type of topic or subject all around the internet, how to do this and how to do that, I’ve read some of them and I’m writing this article base from my own voice and experience, it is more like an advice rather than recommendation, before I go any further, I would like to let you know once…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Expression,  Life,  Moment,  Portraiture

    Black and White Portraits Photography

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Black and White Photography Colors are good, colors are great but personally I think when it comes to portrait photography where certain mood or emotion is concern, nothing can beat black and white photography. I’ve done two version of editing for this picture, one is colors but the other one is black and white and  I think monochrome speaks louder, express better. I think black and white convey better for this particular picture. Black and white is classic, black and white is pure, black and white is here to stay for as long as photography is concern. Black and white are very good at eliminating…