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Children Photography | Once Upon a Time in Cameron Highlands
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | My Children at Cameron Highlands Tea Plantation Nowadays I try as much as I can to take a photograph of my children with an environmental background, something that add context to the picture, something that have story to tell. When I’ve my first child HaiQal, we didn’t have any mean of transportation, I mean we don’t have a car, so it can be quite difficult for us to going somewhere using a public transportation, that’s why most of HaiQal pictures back then were taken around my house, normally just a close up portrait of my son alone or with his mother. To be honest with…
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Photography Tips | Learn To See The Light Like a Pro
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Cameron Highlands Tea Plantation | All Photographs Taken With 24mm Prime Lens on Canon 5d Mark II The photographs above were taken at Cameron Valley or Bharat Tea Plantation, it is located at the main road going up to Tanah Rata from Ringlet. This is among the most visited tea plantation at Cameron Highlands due to its location, easy access from the main road compared to Habu Boh Tea Plantation and Sungai Palas Boh Tea Plantation, where you need to travel a bit deeper from the main road to get access into it. This is the favourite stop for picture taking, camera toting tourist to get…
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Traveling Family | Snapshots at Cameron Highlands
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Family Photographs at Brinchang Cameron Highlands Brinchang is the highest town in Cameron Highlands, situated 1450 meters high on a gently sloping plateau along the main road, about 4km after Tanah Rata or 3km before Kea Farm. While relatively small compared to Tanah Rata, Brinchang attracts the most visitors, drawn by the town’s dominant Chinese ethnicity and flavour. The inclining terrain and lack of flat land areas have resulted in commercial activity and urban development being concentrated at a small pocket of town. This epicentre of Brinchang is where numerous restaurants, shops and hotels huddle among densely packed shop lots, jostling fiercely for tourist customers.…
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Photography Tips | Minimalist Photography | Keep It Simple
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Daughter at Habu Boh tea Plantation | Cameron Highlands Sometimes the best things in life is to keep it simple, I think so does goes to photography. There is a place for minimalism and there is a place for a little bit of context in photography. Sometimes the simple photograph does not tell the whole story since we have already crop out any unwanted attention in the photograph and when it is simple, the visual story become simple also. This photograph may look simple, just a mother which is my wife and our newborn daughter against a green tea plantation at Cameron Highlands.…
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Portrait Photography Tips | To Bokeh or Not?
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Daughter | 50mm | ISO 160 | f/2 | 1/500 © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Son at Cameron Highlands | 24mm | ISO 200 | f/5 | 1/160 © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Sarangkot Pokhara | Nepal | 50mm | ISO 100 | f/11 | 1/160 Someone asked me, whether he need to “bokeh” his background or not when taking a portrait. Before that, to those of you who have no idea what is “Bokeh” comes from the Japanese word “boke” which means “blur” or “haze”. Generally speaking it is in out of focus area of an image which normally refer…
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