• Art,  Expression,  Family,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Portrait Photography | The Art of Backlighting

    21/03/2011 /

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son | ISO 200 | F2 | 1/1250 What is Backlighting?  As the name suggest, Backlighting refers to lighting in a photograph that comes from behind an object or a person. The lighting can be from many source, it can be a natural light or artificial light as long as the main source of the light coming from behind the subject, it is called a backlighting. Most of the times backlighting comes from ambient light around the subject of the photograph. If you look at the picture of my son above, the lighting coming from the early morning sunrise which is  from the right…

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  • Art,  Black and White,  Expression,  Family,  Portrait

    Digital Photography | Noise and Grain Factor

    20/03/2011 /

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son in Black and White | Photograph With Add Grain in Adobe Photoshop As the name suggest, “Noise” is something undesirable, unwanted thing, nobody wanted to be stranded in the middle of “Noisy” surroundings. People wanted to be in the peaceful environment, less “noise” to be exact but then again what it is all about when it comes to Digital Photography? What is “Noise” and what is “Grain”? Noise in digital photos consists of any undesirable flecks of random color in a portion of an image that should consist of smooth color. It is somewhat like a black fine sand scattered all…

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  • Art,  Black and White,  Family,  Moment,  Photojournalism,  Portrait

    Telling Stories With a Photograph | A Conversation With Mother

    18/03/2011 /

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | A Conversation With Mother at Kinokuniya Bookstore I personally think that the basis of a photography is to tell a story with a photograph, that’s why they called it a Photograph Worth a Thousand Words. A photograph is a visual language where most of the times people don’t need any explanation about the picture if it can tells a story on it’s own. Some photograph can be like an abstract where people don’t know head and tails about it until they read a caption about it while others is just pure and simple where people can easily understood about the story of the picture. I…

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  • Assignment,  Book,  News,  Photojournalism

    Photojournalist and Bounce Flash

    16/03/2011 /

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Photojournalist at Work With Bounce Flash I’ve written an article not too long ago about why Photojournalist seldom use bounce flash when taking picture, most of the times, they will use direct flash for their assignment. As a Photojournalist myself I’ve write in the article about why we photojournalist don’t use a direct flash in certain circumstances. You can read about direct flash syndrome HERE In that article, I’ve mention that we as a photojournalist captured a moment not create a moment, so that when dealing with a person especially high profile personality, we usually don’t have much time to “make a picture”. What we can…

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