• Life,  Malaysia,  Photojournalism,  Portrait

    Thank You Josh | Thank You Pos Malaysia

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | HaiQal Big Picture on Pos Malaysia Jinjang Wall I just received an email from Mr Josh who work for with the agency in New Zealand that consulted on the POS Malaysia retail design project. I’ve already post this picture on my previous blog post in April but I just wanted to share it with you again and this time with an email that I received from the man who responsible to make this happen. I’m not trying to brag here with my success but most importantly to inspire photographers out there, especially those of you who came to my blog frequently to believe in yourself, to…

  • Art,  Expression,  Moment

    Basic Photography | Creative Use of Depth of Field

    © 2008 Wazari Wazir | Little Fingers | Using Depth of Field Creatively Depth of field (DOF) by definition is the amount of your image that’s in focus or in another words is the distance in front and beyond the object that is in focus or sharp. There is a long discussing about depth of field on the internet, most of the discussion is more towards technical aspect of it rather than how you can use creative depth of field to your advantage. To make it easy for you, there are three things that will affect the depth of field, those thing are the size of Aperture that you use,…

  • Art,  Family,  Moment

    Basic Photography | Tips For Natural Light Photography

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Newborn Photography | My Son Raphael | 50mm | ISO 200 | f/2.0 | 1/1600 It is no secret that I use natural light for most of my son pictures, I don’t like using flash when it comes to photographing my son, I like to keep it natural and even though I know that flash can help me in certain situation when the lighting is bad, I choose not to use it. I take picture of my son just for my family, I don’t do business taking picture of other people children. So I can choose when to shoot and when not to shoot, when…

  • Life,  Malaysia,  People,  Travel

    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,…

  • Expression,  People,  Politic

    Expressive Portraiture | What is Expressive Photography?

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Expressive Portraiture “If it Makes You Laugh, If it Makes You Cry, If it Rips Your Heart, That’s a Good Picture.” – Eddie Adams – I believe that Eddie Adams quote above summed it all about “What is Expressive Photography” is all about. Maybe I should keep my entry short with the quote but just to make things clear, Expressive Photography does not necessarily involved human being, in can be any subject, it can be still life, it can be landscape, seascape, it can be a mountains, an animal, it can be anything as long as the subject mange to touch our heart, evoke our…