• Art,  Expression,  Family,  Melayu,  Portrait,  Travel

    Portrait Photography | Expression Beats Perfection

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Son | Blue Valley | Cameron Highlands “Epression beats perfection any day of the week, and if you have the most perfect photograph in the universe it’s a zero if you have no expression from your subjects.” – Bambi Cantrell – When it comes to portrait photography, I’ve to agree with Bambi Cantrell quote above “Expression Beats Perfection”. If you are familiar with portrait photography, more or less the pose is almost the same but what makes each portrait differ from one another is the expression from the subjects, whether they are smiling, laughing, serious or  sad looking face. There is so much…

  • Art,  Emotion,  Moment,  People,  Travel

    Natural and Available Light Portrait Photography | Why High ISO Matters

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Putra Mosque Putrajaya | ISO 2000 | f/5 | 1/100 | 24mm Does Hight ISO Matters? You may get a different answers from one photographer to another, depending on whom you ask, depending on their chosen photographic genre. If you ask landscape photographers, they usually don’t bother so much about it because most of the times, they will be shooting on tripod with long exposure, they will use the Lowest ISO possible to get the best result and having a camera with the ability to shoot at High ISO is not their concern. Same goes to fashion photographers who like to shoot in the studio…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Expression,  Portrait

    Children Black and White Portraiture

    © 2008 Wazari Wazir | Black and White Portrait of My Son | HaiQal “When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes.  But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!”  – Ted Grant – Tweet news and informationbusiness,health,entertainment,technology automotive,business,crime,health,life,politics,science,technology,travel

  • Art,  Family,  Moment,  Travel

    Basic Photography | Composition and Storytelling

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Son Having Fun at Independence Square | Dataran Merdeka | Kuala Lumpur Photographers always associate composition as The Art of Seeing, Composition is a key element of good photographs. How you compose your picture will have an impact on how it will perceived by the viewers. There is so much you can show and there is so little that you can show depending on your intention. If you just wanted to show your subject (portrait) then maybe using fast lens with big aperture will throw away the background and make your subject stand out, make it the main focus in the photograph. On the other hand if…