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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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Basic Photography | Why Using High ISO Does Matter
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Book Worm | 24mm | ISO 1600 | f/2.8 | 1/25 I believe that most of of you knows that the best ISO is always the lowest ISO like ISO 100 and below and using High ISO should be always your last resort when using Low ISO can’t do the job for whatever reason. As many of you already know, ISO number refer to the sensitivity of the sensor towards the light, the higher the ISO, the more sensitive the sensor towards the light and this will give you the advantage to use higher shutter speed compared to if you use Lower ISO which will…
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Basic Photography | Composition | Simplicity
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Son | Paddy Field | Sekinchan Selangor “As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.” – Sam Abell ( National Geographic Photographer ) – This photograph may look too simple , just a picture of my wife holding my son on his arm, if I tell you that the background is a wall with giant paddy field picture on it, you might believe it because it was too simple, the background is too plain. The truth…
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Basic Photography | Point of View in Photography
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | HaiQal | Untitled Expression Basically POV or Point of View refer to the position from which the camera take the photograph. Are you taking the picture from above, looking down on the subject or are you taking the picture from lower angle, looking up at the subject and how close or how far between you and the subject. Normally most photographers took picture from their eye level, it is natural to do so, all we have to do is just raise the camera to our eyes and start composing the shot but sometimes this normal point of view tend to create a mundane or boring…
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Happy Birthday My Son | HaiQal Four Year Old
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Happy Birthday My Son | 50mm | ISO 1250 | f/2 | 1/40 Time flies when we enjoy the most. My son HaiQal is four year old today 22nd August 2011. Since we are in the middle of Ramadan, fasting month for muslim, we don’t make any birthday party for him. I just bought him a small birthday cake and light a candle and just let my son have all the fun. I don’t really celebrate birthday party actually, maybe because I’ve never celebrate it all my life. The reason we bought the cake is just to make him happy, to let him having fun…