• Art,  Assignment,  Black and White,  Moment,  Photojournalism,  Photoshop,  Travel

    The Photographer and The Assignment During Kerdau State By-Elections

    © Shahrul | A Photograph of Me in Rubber Plantation at Teluk Sentang Kerdau, Pahang Taken By Shahrul Reading, this is what I like to do when I’ve nothing to do here at rubber plantation in Teluk Sentang, a small village in Kerdau on the outskirts of Temerloh Pahang. Actually I was waiting for my friend to finish his assignment, just a small assignment for our department at one of the house just across the street from where I was sitting there reading a book. You might say that, how come I’ve a free time to read when I should be busy photographing the Kerdau by-elections. The truth to be…

  • Adventure,  Art,  History,  Photoshop,  Travel

    Travel Photography | London | Once Upon a Time

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | Travel Photography | London | Vintage Sometimes having a little bit of extra Photoshop skills can be fun, we can turn back the clock on London. I think the old building there help  with this texture editing but I don’t know whether McDonald’s and Burger King does exist in those times. In photoshop, with the right texture and the right picture this kind of editing just work seamlessly. I really like those London classic Black Taxi there. But it just doesn’t happen to be there, I do wait until that Taxi enter the frame and just about to take the turn, I press the shutter,…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Photojournalism,  Travel

    Photography | Mount Kinabalu | A Camera is Just a Tool

    © 2005 Wazari Wazir | Mount Kinabalu | Nikon D70s | Lens 18-70mm | 1/160 | ISO 200 | f7.1 © 2005 Wazari Wazir | Mount Kinabalu | Nikon D70s | Lens 18-70mm | 1/250 | ISO 200 | f/8 © 2005 Wazari Wazir | Mount Kinabalu | Nikon D70s | Lens 18-70mm | 1/160 | ISO 200 | f/7.1 Some people really doesn’t get it, that a camera is just a tool. It doesn’t have brain on its own. I know that they have been programed for certain functions like how to calculate a meter reading depending on the lighting situation, how to determine wether the focus is sharp…

  • Art,  Moment,  People,  Travel

    Action Photography | Slow Shutter Speed For Sense of Movement

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | Belly Dancer | Moroccan Pavilion Putrajaya Have you ever seen a whirling dervishes? It is one of the symbol of Turkey tourism. Sufi whirling (or Sufi spinning),  is a physically active meditation which originated among Sufis especially in Konya Turkey. If you have ever seen those “Whirling Dervishes” picture on the internet or in the magazine, most of the time you will see a a blurred kind of a picture, it is rare to see a whirling dervishes picture in a static movement, usually a photographer will use a slow shutter speed to captured that beautiful dancers in motion, captured their sense of movement gracefully. Actually when…