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Travel Photography | Choosing The Right Lens
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | KLCC Kuala Lumpur City Centre Park | Children’s Pool | 10 – 20mm Sometime having the right lens does matter in term of story telling especially in travel photography. Most of the times in travel photography, we want to include all the landmark that we can fit into the frame. In this case, I need to include the Petronas Twin Tower behind as my backdrop, so people will know where this picture is taken, which is at KLCC children’s pool area. To someone who haven’t visit here will also know that this area is close to the tower and to the foreigners can relate the…
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Portrait Photography | Candid Moment Photography
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | Porraiture at Tasik Titiwangsa Kuala Lumpur Candid photography usually refer to unplanned or unposed shot and usually when we talk about candid moment, we refer it to people photography, even though it can be anything, animal at the zoo suddenly jumping over the bridge for an example. What make candid moment so special is because most of the times it only happen once, even though sometimes we try to “staged” it for a second time, the moment will not be the same. Nowadays especially in wedding or portrait photography, people like to “staged” their candid moment, I mean a photographer act like a film director,…
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Photography | Shooting in Tricky Lighting Conditions
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Le Tour de Langkawi | Kuala Lumpur City Centre | ISO 400 | 1/1600 | F4 | 10 – 20mm As a photographer, sometimes we have to deal with a situation like this, a situation where the lighting condition can fools our camera. Most of the times if we use a Program Mode, your camera metering system will take and average reading of the situation and makes it own decision about the exposure. Your camera doesn’t know which is your main subject in the frame. All they care is to get the exposure right, “according to the camera metering system”. Believe me, if you are…
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Location Portrait Photography | KLCC Children Playground
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Son Playing at KLCC Kuala Lumpur City Centre | Children Playground Some people will call this as Environmental Portrait Photography, while others people like to called it as On Location Portraiture, where you shoot your subject at the location, preferred by you or your subject instead of in the studio. Among the advantage of shooting on location is that your subject can relax, play around maybe if it was a child or just simply hanging around. Among other main disadvantage for on location portrait photography is the weather and the lighting, you can’t control the weather and you can’t control the lighting, unless you…
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Action Photography | Sense of Movement
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Joy of Childhood | KLCC Park | ISO 100 | 1/20 | F 18 | Lens 10-20mm First of all I would like to let you know that this is not a Photoshop effect or tricks even though I know how to do it in Photoshop but this action shot, with a sense of movement and blurred background is done right in the camera. I’ve to try many times to get this shot right, I mean to get my son face in focus, not too blurred, you cannot get super sharp image while panning but the point is to get the face of the subject…
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