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    Photography and Photoshop Editing | Color Tones

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | RAW (Left) and Phtoshop Color Tone Editing | Mesilau Sabah © 2010 Wazari Wazir | RAW (Left) and Photoshop Tone editing | Jodhpur | Rajasthan India Playing with Photoshop Color Tones is more of an option, rather than a necessity. What drives me to explore this color tone is because I like what I saw in  deviantART website. I like how the photographers there express their photographic vision with colors and most of them did not use a default color that comes with their camera default setting, instead they tweaked their colors so that they come out with beautiful color tone, well, at least I…

  • Art,  Editing,  Photoshop,  Travel

    Photography and Artistic Vision

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | RAW File Unedited | Taj Mahal | Agra | India © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Edited With Photoshop Tone | Taj Mahal | Agra | India © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Monochromatic | Taj Mahal | Agra | India First and foremost if you call yourself as a “purist” in photography, then you should leave this post, there is no point wasting your time reading my musings and rant here, it is better for for you to take the camera and shoot something rather than wasting your time reading my blog here. On the other hand if you like editing, then please stay with me,…

  • Art,  Emotion,  Face,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Basic Photography | Improve Your Photograph With The Right Cropping

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Expressive Portrait Photography | Improve Your Photograph With The Right Cropping In photography cropping is also the way how you compose your photograph but normally we use composition technique when it comes to picture taking process and we use crop when it comes to editing in Photoshop or in any photo editing software but basically they are more or less quite the same. During picture taking process you can crop the picture in the frame which we call “composition” meaning that you choose what should be in the frame and cut out unwanted part with careful composition. Cropping is also part of editing skills apart…

  • Art,  Family,  Moment,  Travel

    Basic Photography | Composition and Storytelling

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Son Having Fun at Independence Square | Dataran Merdeka | Kuala Lumpur Photographers always associate composition as The Art of Seeing, Composition is a key element of good photographs. How you compose your picture will have an impact on how it will perceived by the viewers. There is so much you can show and there is so little that you can show depending on your intention. If you just wanted to show your subject (portrait) then maybe using fast lens with big aperture will throw away the background and make your subject stand out, make it the main focus in the photograph. On the other hand if…

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    Once Upon a Time in Sekinchan | Vintage Photograph Editions

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Son | Sekinchan Paddy Field Few years back I was so crazy doing this kind of editing, I spent days and night looking for some tutorial on the internet, books and magazines to achieve this effect and after few years learning rigorously, finally I find my own way doing this close to my vision, off course it was a combination of what I’ve learn from all these years. This texture editing won’t work for every type of a picture, even though you have a solid background in Photoshop layering but without the right subject to begin with, the result may not look impressive.…