• Family,  Photoshop,  Travel

    Photoshop Editing | Playing With Color Tones

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | (Left) Original | (Right) After Editing With Photoshop I’ve wrote once that if we wanted to sell our pictures to the magazines or any publication, whether it is online or printed version, try to keep the color as natural as possible, it was very simple, the magazines, especially the travel magazine wanted to tell the truth, they don’t want to present false information. If the sky is blue, let it blue and if the grass is green, keep it green. On the other hand if you wanted to experiment with colors, play with portraiture or lifestyle photography, or simply for your very own personal blog…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Life,  Moment,  People,  Portrait,  Travel

    Sea Gypsies | Life By The Seas | Sabah Malaysia North Borneo

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Sea Gypsies | Sabah Malaysia North Borneo “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” – Albert Camus – These sea gypsies kids seems to be so happy playing around when I met them here in the island o Maiga, not very far away from Semporna Sabah. They are a little bit shy actually, I did try to get closer to them but the close I try to get to them, they try to move further and further away but still, I manage to get…

  • Assignment,  Culture,  Malaysia,  People,  Photojournalism,  Travel

    Photojournalism | Choosing The Best Point of View

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | An elephant leads the procession of the arrival of Malaysia’s outgoing king Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin and queen Nur Zahirah (unseen) before departing for their home state of Terengganu, at an airport in Sepang outside Kuala Lumpur on December 12, 2011. Sultan Mizan, Malaysia’s 13 king, proclaimed in 2006, completed his reign on Monday (Dec 12, 2011) after a five-year rotation period. Sultan Mizan is the sultan for the northeastern state of Terengganu. What is point of view? Basically it is the position, direction, heigh of the camera that will define the point of view of a picture. If you asked me what is the…

  • Assignment,  Black and White,  History,  Malaysia,  Moment,  Prime Minister

    Photojournalism | The Assignment

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Malaysia Prime Minister (L) Najib Razak and his Qatar’s  counterpart Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani talk during the state welcoming ceremony in Putrajaya, outside Kuala Lumpur, December 5, 2011. My schedule is a little bit pack recently, lots of assignment going on here and there and I hardly can keep up with my blog. Some of them are with sharing here while others I just posted on my flickr. Feel free to visit there in case I haven’t posted it here just yet. This is part of my job but don’t worry though, I will not flooded my blog with all this political pictures, I know…

  • Art,  Expression,  Family,  Portrait

    Family Photography | Father and Son

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Father and Son | Photograph Taken by My Wife “My father always told me, “Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.” – Jim Fox – I don’t think I can carry my son like this if he reach twenty years old if God Willing “InsyaAllah”, so I better get the picture first before its too late. My wife took this picture and I’m not someone who can easily get satisfied when someone else took a picture of me, not even my wife, so after each shot taken, I will take a look at the LCD just…