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Photography | Photojournalism | Your Camera Does Matter
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Dr. Manmohan Singh ( L ) and Najib Tun Razak ( R ) | Prime Minister Office | Putrajaya The above picture is the latest high profile assignment that was assign to me from my photography department during Official Visit of His Excellency Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India and Mrs. Gursharan Kaur to Malaysia on 27th October in outside Malaysia Prime Minister Office PMO Putrajaya. This is a photography blog so I will not write long history about Malaysia and India relationship and all other political news or related things, so I will focus on my job, my role as one of the…
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Portrait Photography | How To Get Muted Colors
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Portrait | Muted Colors Some people like to call it muted colors, some people like to call it less color, fade color. Anyway basically it is about less colors, less saturate, subtle colors. Soft or pale color without too much contrast. Whatever you like to called it, it is about less color, almost monochromatic but yet still maintain some colors. So how do we get that color. How to achieve this kind of colors? Actually there are many ways to achieve this kind of look, I’ve try few ways in Photoshop to get this kind of effect. You can do it by reducing the saturation…
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Sports Photography | The Importance of High ISO and High Speed
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Thomas Cup 2010 Kuala Lumpur | ISO 5000 | 1/1250 | f2.8 | 300mm Lens Before this I have wrote a little bit about “How to choose a DSLR” depending on your needs and requirement. Now I’m going to write about the importance of having a camera with High ISO capability, I mean a camera that can shoot at a higher ISO more than just ISO 3200 that most entry level camera have. Most importantly is to have a camera that is capable of producing “clean” image with less visible noise at higher ISO. Sports event doesn’t happen all the time in the outdoors, in…
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Portrait Photography | Ada Apa Dengan Tone?
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Selepas Tone | Edited © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Sebelum Tone | Original Ada apa dengan Tone? Takde apa, sajer jer, itu jawapan ringkas saya. Sebenarnya bagi saya lebih kepada cita rasa masing-masing, setiap dari kita berbeza, ada yang suka pedas, ada yang suka manis. Ada yang suka yang asli dan ada juga yang suka manipulasi dan bagi saya bila menyebut tone ni, ianya adalah manipulasi yang noleh dikatakan paling minimum, kita hanya “manipulate” warna sahaja bukan meletakkan sesuatu benda asing atau membuang benda asing di dalam gambar. Seperti yang saya katakan tadi, ada yang suka gambar “Asli”. Ada yang suka mengekalkan “skin tone” yang…
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Senior Portrait Photography | Black and White
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Senior Portrait Photography It’s been awhile that I shoot any pretty face lately, thanks to my friend Ishak Hamzah for inviting me for this photo shoot, we shoot in the late afternoon and the weather wasn’t very good, it rains and we have to cut our photo shoot less than an hour after its start. Most of the times I join photo shoot like this is because I want to meet some friends, face to face, rather than busy with facebook and all other social media. It’s good to be able to meet your facebook friends in real life, sharing and exchanging ideas, just like…