• Art,  Emotion,  Expression,  Face,  Malaysia,  Moment,  Portrait,  Portraiture

    Camera is Just a Tool

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait of My Son Nikon or Canon? Nikon or Canon? What am I talking here, what my son picture above got to do with Nikon or Canon, nothing actually, nothing really. Actually there is something, without a camera I would not be able to capture this image and share it with you here. It doesn’t really matter whether I use Nikon or Canon, can you tell it by looking at the picture above without  going through my flickr page and searching for the EXIF File, you wouldn’t know which camera I use to get this picture. What am I trying to say here, what…

  • Art,  Emotion,  Expression,  Moment,  People,  Portraiture

    How To Play With Texture in Photoshop

    © 2008 Wazari Wazir | Playing With Photoshop Texture Recently someone have asked me how to do Texture in Photoshop, should they do it in colors or should they turn the picture into black and white or sepia before proceed with texture layering. My answer is, up to you. Why? You may ask, it is because there is no rules when doing texture in Photoshop, you can do it in color or in monochromatic image, but there is a guide that you wanted to know in order to make your texture work look great. If you are interested, then read on. First thing first, the number one reason why I…

  • Art,  Emotion,  Expression,  Face,  Family,  Love,  Malaysia,  Melayu,  Moment,  Photoshop,  Portrait,  Portraiture

    Which Lens To Buy?

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait First things first, If you are a millionaire photographer, please skip this article, don’t waste your time here deciding which lens to buy, since you have a lot of money to spend but if you are just regular photographer like me which must make a hard decision to save our hard earn money then read on. Here I will discuss just about two favorite portrait lens, 50mm and 85mm lens. For this shot I use Nikkor 50mm f1.4 lens, much cheaper than legendary Nikkor 85mm f1.4 lens. Here I will discuss about this two lens, 85mm and 50mm and why I choose 50mm…

  • Art,  Emotion,  Expression,  Face,  Malaysia,  Moment,  People,  Portrait,  Portraiture

    The Artistic Touch

    I’m in the process of making my second Photoshop eBook, my eBook will show you how to play with Texture, my first eBook is about Photoshop Tone, how to get vintage or old school kind of effect, so this time I will share my texture technique, how do I apply texture from scratch. A lot of people can get texture for free but most of them have very little idea how to apply them and blend it well with the picture. I’ve been playing around with the texture for more than two years already and I’ve learn a lot from trial and error. In my eBook I’ll try my level…