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Basic Photography | The Environmental Portrait
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Son Playing at the Beach | Teluk Kemang | 24mm | ISO 100 | f/4 | 1/400 Basically there are two types of people or portrait photography. Portrait and environmental portrait. When we talk about portrait photography, usually it was a close up picture of the person being photograph, basically head and shoulder, and leaving the background out of focus and our eyes are drawn to the subject face only. With this kind of portrait, you don’t know who they are, what they are doing for a living and you don’t have any idea where the picture is taken if all you can see…
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Basic Photography | Break The Rule of Thirds
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | HaiQal at Sekinchan Paddy Field | Selangor | 24mm | f/6.3 | 1/80 | ISO 125 | Natural Light In photography, people always say that before we want to break the rules we should know what the rule are, otherwise how come we wanted to break the rules if we don’t have any idea about it. I think most of you who have visit my blog for quite sometimes, knows what the rule of third are, basically it was merely referred to the way we position our main subject. I mean by not putting our main subject at the dead centre of the frame. If…
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Happy Birthday My Son | HaiQal Four Year Old
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Happy Birthday My Son | 50mm | ISO 1250 | f/2 | 1/40 Time flies when we enjoy the most. My son HaiQal is four year old today 22nd August 2011. Since we are in the middle of Ramadan, fasting month for muslim, we don’t make any birthday party for him. I just bought him a small birthday cake and light a candle and just let my son have all the fun. I don’t really celebrate birthday party actually, maybe because I’ve never celebrate it all my life. The reason we bought the cake is just to make him happy, to let him having fun…
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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…
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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,…