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Black and White Portraits Photography
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Black and White Photography Colors are good, colors are great but personally I think when it comes to portrait photography where certain mood or emotion is concern, nothing can beat black and white photography. I’ve done two version of editing for this picture, one is colors but the other one is black and white and I think monochrome speaks louder, express better. I think black and white convey better for this particular picture. Black and white is classic, black and white is pure, black and white is here to stay for as long as photography is concern. Black and white are very good at eliminating…
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Portrait Photography | Against The Wind
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Against The Wind | Langkawi One of the reason why I didn’t cut my son hair is because I want to “play” with it, some people think that my son is a girl, maybe because it was unusual for a small child like my son age to have a long hair, but it is not that “much” actually. I like it best when shooting into the light, a backlighting work best where I can hide the source of light at the back of my son and it will create a nice rim light along the edge of my son hair. This is not really a…
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Portrait Photography | Expressive Portraiture
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | A Child and His Penguin | Langkawi This is among my favorite picture taken at Langkawi, I know it’s not a picture about Langkawi, I can easily take this picture at home, no need to fly hundreds of kilometers just to get this close up shot. There is a story attached to this picture, there is a story to tell, I took this picture at Tengah Beach Langkawi and then again you can’t see the beach here. We bought the cuddly little penguin at Langkawi Underwater World after we finish the tour, I mean visiting the underwater world. My son like to watch Madagascar the…
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A Walk To Remember | Black Sand Beach Langkawi
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Black Sand Beach Jetty Langkawi A little bit history about Black Sand Beach Langkawi : The Black Sand Beach Of Langkawi is a major tourist attraction of the region. Visitors are awed by the black sands and the legends behind this occurrence are highly interesting as well. It narrates of a mythical giant eagle, Garuda, who kidnaps a Chinese princess with an intention to seek her favors. The princess’ heart however laid with her fiancé, a roman prince. The prince waged a deadly war against Garuda and sought out his beloved at Langkawi. It is believed that the remnants of this war can be seen…
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Location Portraiture
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Langkawi Island | Royal Langkawi Yacht Club “And that’s the wonderful thing about family travel, it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind”. ( Dave Barry ) Portraiture is not about head and shoulder, sometimes we need to show our subject with it’s surroundings, where the picture is taken and what was the surroundings look like. If we travel as a tourist try to find a great background and is possible a landmark about that particular place, your subject may look small in the frame, that’s ok because the main purpose is to show where the…