• Black and White,  Family,  Hitam Putih,  Travel

    Children’s Photography | Once Upon a Time at Kuala Penyu Sabah

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | My Sons HaiQal and Raphael With  His Nephew (Left Photo) Playing With Sampan I still have a lot of photographs taken during Eid ul-Fitr celebration at my  father-in-law house in Kuala Penyu Sabah yet to be shared here on my blog. Actually once I got back here in Kuala Lumpur, I was very busy with my work especially a week before Malaysia celebrate his independence day, which falls on 31st August 2012. Anyway, this photograph were taken at my  father-in-law house and he own that sampan, the colour is bright yellow, it was brand new, handmade by none other than my  father-in-law himself. Less than an hour after…

  • Art,  Photoshop,  Travel

    Photoshop Tips | Selective Editing | Dodging and Burning

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Traditional Sarawak Cultural Show | Annah Rais Longhouse | Sarawak In traditional photography during film days, dodging and burning were done inside the lightroom under the enlarger, where we burn certain part of the area to make it darker  and dodge certain part of the area to make it lighter. Under the enlarger, if we put more exposure “burn” certain part of the area which falls on the paper under the enlarger, that part will be darker and if we put less exposure “dodging”, that particular area will be lighter, yes it is reverse result if we printing from a negative film. The reason why…

  • Art,  Family,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Family Photography | It’s The Moment That Matters

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Son | Family Photography It’s been awhile that I play around with texture in my photograph, at one time I’m obsessed with texture and I find it very hard to get it right and after awhile, after I know how to get it right, I no longer find it challenging and that’s the reason why nowadays I rarely playing with texture in Photoshop. Anyway this photograph of my family, my wife and my son Raphael, still can stand on it’s own, with or without the editing, the reason is that it’s the moment that matters. Even though if I took this photograph with…

  • Art,  Family,  Portrait

    Children Portrait Photography | Baby, Baby Please Don’t Cry

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | My Son Raphael Crying I wish I’ve this kind of a picture myself, I mean, a photograph of me crying out loud when I was like my son age, it must be fun to look at it now when I was having a baby myself but unfortunately, I don’t have any. Anyway family portrait photography does not necessarily about cute looking face, does not necessarily about beautiful smiling face, it is about capturing a moments in our time and I believe that this kind of a picture will be priceless in the future, not may people can remember how they look like when they cry…