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Portrait Photography | Backlighting Photography Tips
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son | ISO 200 | 50mm | F2.0 | 1/640 | Spot Metering Talking about Backlighting in photography, some photographers either like it or hate it as simple as that. One of the reason why they hate it maybe because it is so hard to control the exposure especially if we are shooting with a Program Mode, because most of the time our subject will look dark. I like backlighting simply because I like the mood and the flare that it produce, and I want to keep it that way. Most of the times a photograph will look imperfect when we are…
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Portrait of My Son | Pos Malaysia Jinjang New Icon
I just don’t know how am I supposed to write this article, I was dumbfound by my son big size picture at Pos Malaysia Jinjang Kuala Lumpur. They were so big than what I’ve imagined. I know that Pos malaysia will be using HaiQal portrait for his new design concept store in Jinjang Post Office but I never knew that it will printed this big. Pos Malaysia Jinjang is their first concept store or new retail design store, they will design all of their Post office nationwide starting with Pos Malaysia Jinjang. Actually Pos Malaysia has contact me through email since earlier last year in 2010, they asked me whether…
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Portrait Photography | Playing With The Tone | Before and After
© 2011 Ahmad Athar Mohd Yusoff | Portrait Photography | Before ( Far Left ) and After Editing With The Tone The photograph above belong to Ahmad Athar who have edited those picture with one of the technique that can be found on my Photoshop Tone eBook. When you do it right you will definitely get a beautiful nice tone depending on the subject matter. This one of very good example where applying the tone make a difference. Adding tones is definitely not a cup of coffee for everyone but it is good to know how to do it. Sometimes with right tone can add a little to the mood…
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Adobe Photoshop Tutorial | The Classic S – Curves
I just wanted to share with you basic tutorial how we can dramatically increase the contrast and tone in a picture by using simple Curves in Photoshop. This is very easy and quick way to really make your subject stand out in term in colors and contrast. Just open up your picture in Photoshop and go to Menu > Image > Adjustment > Curves to start and follow the next step. Now once your Curves dialogue box appear, just adjust the Curves so that you get something like the picture above, get the Curves to look like S. By pushing the Highlights a bit and by reducing or pushing down the…
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Children Photography | The Essence of Childhood
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | The Essence of Childhood | My Son Playing With His favorite Toys “If You Carry Your Childhood With You, You Never Become Older.” ( Tom Stoppard ) My son just woke up actually and as usual he will be looking for his toys and start playing around. He have nothing much to worry but just to play all day long. He is quite lucky because we as a parent can afford to buy him a simple toy, unlike during my childhood days where we came from not so rich family, my father rarely bought me a new toys, in fact I can hardly remember if…