• Art,  Editing,  Emotion,  Face,  Family,  Life,  Love,  Photoshop,  Portrait,  Travel

    Portrait Photography | Family Matters

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Family Photograph Taken at Paddy Fields In Sungai Besar | Selangor I would like to end this year post with a picture of my family taken at Paddy Fields in Sungai Besar Selangor. Actually this picture was taken on Christmas Day. Since it is a public holiday, we decided to go here in Sungai Besar Selangor and introduce our son to the paddy fields. Sungai Besar or Sekinchan in Selangor is a favorite place among shutterbug who wanted to photograph a paddy fields because of it location, just merely less than two hours leisurely drive from Kuala Lumpur can get you here. It is also…

  • Art,  Editing,  Expression,  Face,  Life,  Portrait

    Photography | How To Crop Images

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | Senior Portrait | Lake Garden For me cropping is an art in itself, some people prefer to do a cropping in the camera, we don’t call it a cropping if you do it in the camera but that’s composition. We can make good composition right in the camera if we have the time to do that, like taking a portrait in the studio, shoot landscape, architecture, when you almost have total control of your subject but sometimes when it comes to shoot fast moving subject, sports for an example it is difficult to get a nice composition in the frame, because the subject moving so…

  • Art,  Family,  Life,  Moment,  Portrait

    Portrait Photography | Capturing Moments

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | A Moment of Childhood | FRIM Malaysia Ever since our son HaiQal was born, my interest in photography goes towards him, I mean I really enjoy taking picture of him more than anything else. I’m a full time working photographer with the Government of Malaysia and my job require me to photographs all kind of things, from politics side, economy side and most of them involved person or personality but none of them are more important than my own family, yes I do that job to brings foods on the table, I’m proud of my job but nevertheless my family picture is still my top…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Emotion,  Expression,  Face,  Portrait

    Portrait Photography | Look Away

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | HaiQal | A Portrait of My Son In my previous article I wrote that whenever we took a portrait of a person, we must focus on his or her eyes no matter whether they look into the lens or not. In this picture the eyes appear to be a little bit soft, a little bit out of focus and if you can see clearly the focus was on the strand of hair on my son cheek. I did use fast shutter speed here and I did focus on his eyes but when I was about to press the shutter button, my son turn away and…