• Art,  Expression,  Moment

    Basic Photography | Creative Use of Depth of Field

    © 2008 Wazari Wazir | Little Fingers | Using Depth of Field Creatively Depth of field (DOF) by definition is the amount of your image that’s in focus or in another words is the distance in front and beyond the object that is in focus or sharp. There is a long discussing about depth of field on the internet, most of the discussion is more towards technical aspect of it rather than how you can use creative depth of field to your advantage. To make it easy for you, there are three things that will affect the depth of field, those thing are the size of Aperture that you use,…

  • Art,  Emotion,  Family,  Life,  Moment

    Basic Photography Composition | Balancing Elements in Photography

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Harmony With Nature | My Wife and My Son | Kuala Lumpur Bird Park Malaysia Among the most talk about when it comes to photography composition is “The Rule of Thirds” or in simple words is to place your main subject off-centre whether you put your subject close to the right or close to the left but not in the centre of the frame, and in photography we refer that kind of composition as “The Rule of Thirds”. It is not really a rules but more about “guide”, something that we refer to make our composition much more pleasing or aesthetic to our eyes. But…

  • Expression,  Face,  Family,  Moment,  People,  Portrait

    Children Photography | A Moment to Remember

    © 2008 Wazari Wazir | A Moment To Remember | Mother and Son       “There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained”    – Winston Churchill –  This is not the latest picture of my second child Raphael, it is my first son HaiQal, in case you miss the caption up there, it was taken in 2008 when he is one year old. It was truly a moment to be remembered. For those of you who have been following my blog or my flickr, will notice…

  • Family,  Life,  Moment

    Children and Toys | A Child Best Friends

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Son HaiQal and His Toys | Getting Organized I don’t have much to write here, just wanted to share with you a picture of my son and his toys. I guess he was so lucky to have so many toys unlike me when I was a little child, I used to make my very own toys back then, making our own  kite, making our own weapon from the plank of woods and few other things. Maybe at that time, there were not many toys available and furthermore we seldom get a chance to visit the city, I mean my family seldom take us to…

  • Art,  Expression,  Family,  Travel

    Basic Photography | The Art of Composition

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Paddy Field | Sungai Besar Selangor Photography is a highly subjective matter, especially when we talk about the artistic aspect of photography. Just like painting, some people can understand and appreciate abstract or modern art while others can only appreciate simple art or straight forward art where they can clearly see the subjective matter, whether it is a portrait or  landscape where abstract art is a little bit complicated to be understand for most people on the street including me. Personally for me, when it comes to composition, it is also a subjective matter, yes we all know about rule of third, golden rules and…