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Basic Photography | When To Use Spot Meter?
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | RAW Original File | Unedit © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Minor Editing | Just Color Enhancement There is a reason why camera manufacturer provide us with different set of metering mode, it is to make our job easier in order to get nice exposure, well balance exposure. It was not difficult to change a camera mode in your camera, but some people just don’t know how or when to do it or why they need to change the metering mode. If you take your time to read the Manual, you will find out that there are many type of metering that your camera offer. Among…
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Basic Photography | Tips & Technique | How To Get Sharp Images With 50mm Lens
50mm Lens can be considered as the most popular portrait lens, I think most people have one in their camera bag. The reason is simple, 50mm lens is the most affordable lens with good quality glass. The most popular one is 50mm f/1.8, whether you are Nikon or Canon owner, this is the most affordable one and a little bit expensive one is 50mm f/1.4 or Canon f/1.2 ( Expensive ), at the moment of writing Nikon does not produce new 50mm f/1.2 manual lens, they only have 50mm f/1.2 manual lens, maybe they will have it in the future. Another reason why 50mm is the most favorite lens is…
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Children Portrait Photography | Expressive Portraiture | I Love Grain
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Expressive Portrait Photography I know it is ironic, when camera manufacture strive hard to produce noise free camera sensor so that the picture will be smooth as silk but some photographers choose to add grain to the picture. If you are familiar with one of the world top wedding photographer Jeff Ascough, you will know what I mean. Look at his picture, most of them have grain even though he use top of the line camera equipment which can produce less noticeable noise at high ISO but look at the grain. Back in the golden film era, people use High ISO film camera which produce…
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Basic Photography Tips | Creative Use of Depth of Field
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Creative Use of Depth of Field | Motherhood | f1.8 | 1/640 | 50mm Lens Basically Depth of field (DOF) is the amount of your image that’s in focus. It is also refers to the range of distance that appears acceptably sharp. It varies depending on lens type, aperture and focusing distance. Depth of field (DOF) also is the distance in front and beyond the object that is in focus. Generally speaking also, if we want to get a greater Depth of Field, which is to have sharp image from foreground to background, you need to use smaller aperture like f8 and above to get everything sharp or…
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Newborn Photography | Capturing The Decisive Moment
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Newborn Photography | My Wife and My Son Raphael | Decisive Moment “To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson – The photograph above will be quite ordinary if my son Raphael just sleeping in the comfort of my wife arm. What makes this picture memorable or special is when my son open up his little mouth “yawn” and I took the picture and freeze it forever. That is a decisive moment, a peak moment…