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Blue Hour Photography | Sultan Abdul Samad Building
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Sultan Abdul Samad Building | 24mm | ISO 1000 | f/4 | 1/50 © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Sultan Abdul Samad Building | 24mm | ISO 1600 | f/4 | 1/30 *About the building : Sultan Abdul Samad Building is among historic building in Kuala Lumpur and become a Kuala Lumpur landmark for more than 100 years. No other building in Kuala Lumpur witnesses so many historic events like Sultan Abdul Samad Building. The building was well preserved and its original architecture still remains until today even this building been through a lot of major renovation. The building takes its name from Sultan Abdul Samad,…
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Basic Photography Composition | Framing Your Shots
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Frame Within The Frame | Istana Alam Shah | Klang Selangor In photography framing is the technique to bring focus to the subject, by properly framing our subject, it helps to draw viewers eyes to the subject. Anything can be use as a frame as long as it help to focus or direct the viewers eyes to the main subject. Here in this photograph I use the platform or the stage and the yellow decoration clothes up there to frame my main subject, actually my “real main subject” here is The King of Malaysia, but the King has not arrive just yet, so in this…
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Travel Photography | It’s Not About The Camera
© 2008 Wazari Wazir | Mabul Island | Sabah | Malaysia North Borneo I think this behind the scene picture tells more story than the close up picture of the subject, I mean the end result. Here you can see how the photographer interact with the subject and you can see also the person reaction when he is being photograph with his daughter. Travel photography is not for everybody, I mean when it involved human as your main subject, it is not suitable for a “shy guy” because more often than not, you need to interact with local people, unless your main interest is to photograph a landscape, seascape, buildings,…
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Basic Photography Composition | Balancing Elements in Photography
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Harmony With Nature | My Wife and My Son | Kuala Lumpur Bird Park Malaysia Among the most talk about when it comes to photography composition is “The Rule of Thirds” or in simple words is to place your main subject off-centre whether you put your subject close to the right or close to the left but not in the centre of the frame, and in photography we refer that kind of composition as “The Rule of Thirds”. It is not really a rules but more about “guide”, something that we refer to make our composition much more pleasing or aesthetic to our eyes. But…
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Basic Photography Tips | Using Leading Lines for Captivating Composition
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Pantai Sawangan Jetty | Kuala Penyu Sabah © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Children Playground | Lake Garden | Taman Tasik Perdana | Kuala Lumpur Taking picture is easy but to really get a beautiful picture in term of having an aesthetic value that was pleasing to the eye is not as easy as pressing the shutter button on the camera. That’s why it is good if we have some basic understanding about something that we used to called it as “The Rule of Photography” even though I like it to be called as a “Photographers Guide” rather than rules. In term of composition, there is…