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Portrait | Black and White Photography Tips
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son Some people say, doing black and white is easy, I mean to convert from a color picture to black and white is a simple process as simple as A,B,C, it’s true, it’s very easy, just desaturate it or covert it into grey scale and you get black and white photograph, but to get a quality black and white photograph is not easy, at least for me, it was very easy for me to edit a color photograph than to edit a black and white picture. A lot of people have ask me, how I do my black and white editing, I…
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | A Picture is worth a Thousand Words | A Portrait of My Family A picture is worth a thousand words, we have heard this quote, time and time again, and it was so true, sometimes words just not enough, we need to show it visually, so people can understand a story without telling it verbally. The quote above is sometimes attributed to emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, who said “Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours,” or “A good sketch is better than a long speech”. A picture above is a picture of my wife and my son, sharing a happy moment together, my wife try…
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Travel Photography | The Importance of Keywords
© 2007 Wazari Wazir | Taman Negara | Malaysia National Park | Batek People This is a picture of Batek people, one of Malaysia’s aboriginal groups, some people call them “Orang Asli”. I took this picture at the riverbank of Sungai Tembeling, National Park in Pahang. They are “nomadic”, moving from one place to another. I’m not going to write about Batek People here, or to tell you the history of Batek People settlement here in Malaysia but the purpose of this post is about “Keywords”. This blog will concentrate more on photography and nothing else. If you like to know about Batek people I,m very sure you can do…
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Child Photography | I See The Moon
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Black and White | Portrait Photography As the title above, my son did see the moon even though this picture were taken during broad daylight in the late afternoon. It is normal to see the moon during daylight if the sky is clear and there is beautiful deep rich blue sky. He was busy playing on his own, running and never stood still, and only by gaining my son attention that I was be able to get this shot. Otherwise I can’t take a great picture, I mean a decent picture of him. Taking this picture at a close distance with 50mm lens at f2.0…
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Happy Birthday My Son
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Portrait Photography | My Wife and Son | Happy Birthday My Son Today August 22nd 2010 is My Son Birthday, he is three years old. Times flies when we have fun, once a small baby but now becoming grown up boy. This is latest picture of my son taken during his birthday. This is the second time my son celebrate his birthday in month of Ramadan jut like last year, it is the islamic month of fasting, so there were no celebration for him but we did take him out for a small dinner just to make him happy, maybe we will celebrate later during…