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Basic Digital Photography Tips | How To Choose The Right ISO For Your Digital Photography
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Joy of Reading | ISO 1000 | 1/60 | f/5.6 | 10-20mm UWA Lens © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Jumping With Joy | ISO 5000 | 1/125 | f/4.8 | 10-20mm UWA Lens Before I go further I would like to let you know what is ISO stand for. ISO is International Standard Organization or The International Organization for Standardization. In plain English it is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations. Enough about that, I don’t want to go deeper about that organization, all I wanted to share with you here is the relation of ISO with photography, photographers often talk about ISO,…
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Basic Photography | RAW vs JPEG | Why I Shoot RAW and Why You Shouldn’t
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | Blue Mosque | Istanbul Turkey I don’t want to write a lengthly post about this RAW vs Jpegs, I don’t want to waste your time and my times writing something that unimportant here. First of all I would like to make things clear that Great picture is a great picture, it is not necessarily shot in RAW format, it is just a file format which have it’s advantage and disadvantage. Yes I shoot RAW but I don’t shoot RAW all the times, before we go further and before you asked me what is the benefit of shooting RAW vs Jpeg, I would like to point…
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Children Portrait Photography | Expressive Portraiture | I Love Grain
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Expressive Portrait Photography I know it is ironic, when camera manufacture strive hard to produce noise free camera sensor so that the picture will be smooth as silk but some photographers choose to add grain to the picture. If you are familiar with one of the world top wedding photographer Jeff Ascough, you will know what I mean. Look at his picture, most of them have grain even though he use top of the line camera equipment which can produce less noticeable noise at high ISO but look at the grain. Back in the golden film era, people use High ISO film camera which produce…
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Family Photography | The Most Precious Gift of a Lifetime
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Family Photography | My Family | My Wife, HaiQal and Raphael (Newborn) “No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?” – Lee Iacocca – Sometimes as a busy woking photographer, we tend to take our family for granted, we spent so much time to make other people look great in front of our camera, we spent so much time taking picture of other people family be it for business purpose or pleasure but none of our very own family and then we regret…
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Photography | Photo Editing and Photoshop Plug-Ins
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | Photoshop Texture Editing © 2009 Wazari Wazir | Artistic Photoshop Editing I just wanted to write a little bit about Photography and image editing software. At the moment I don’t use any Photoshop Plug-Ins, Action or Preset. All my editing were done from scratch in Photoshop. My editing sometimes can take hours just to complete one single artwork like a portrait of my son above with texture added. Maybe to some people they think I’m wasting my time but the truth is I’ve a lot of time to play around and I don’t need to rush because there were no client waiting for me to…