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Family Photography | Having Fun At The Beach | Pantai Tengah Langkawi
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | My Family Having Fun at Pantai Tengah Langkawi This is our second time we spent our holiday as a family in Langkawi. Second time for HaiQal, my eldest son and first time for three year old Raphael and one year old Arianna, my only daughter. During our first visit we stayed at Federal Villa (The resort is just side by side with its sister resort, the Holiday Villa Beach Resort & Spa Langkawi) and this time we stayed at Holiday Villa. We like this place because Pantai (beach) Tengah is not as busy or as crowded as Cenang Beach which is separated by a small cape. The beach…
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Photography Tips | How To Handle Low Light Conditions Without Using Flash
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | My Family During Langkawi Island Trip | ISO 1600 – ISO 2000 | Shutter 1/80 – 1/200 Photographers always facing this kind of things, sometimes they just don’t have any other options like, not having a flash, like me. Sometimes using flash is prohibited in certain places and sometimes, yes you can flash but in doing so, will spoil the mood in certain places. In my case I don’t want to use flash and prefer to use whatever light available there. The easiest way to handle low light condition without using flash is to bump up the ISO in your camera. For the photographs above…
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Photography Tips | Gives Some Room To Breath
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Photograph On The Left By My Wife | (Right) By Me © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Family Trip at Langkawi Island I’m very particular when it comes to composing for a photographs and there is a reason also on why, I seldom post a picture of me with my children taken by my wife. Depending on your experience in photography, and depending on your preference, you may like one over another but for me when I compose a picture, I will always look for some breathing space. There is a place for a tight shot and there is also a place for better loose shot.…
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Family Photography | Once Upon a Time in Langkawi
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Once Upon a Time in Langkawi | Mahsuri Mausoleum © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Once Upon a Time in Langkawi | Mahsuri Mausoleum Both photographs were taken at the same place at Mahsuri House in Langkawi Kedah The top photograph were taken in September 2010, my son HaiQal is three years old then, and the bottom one is the new one taken this month (June 2014). To be honest I like the old one compared to this new look from photographers point of view. Yes, I know, the old version looks like this house is abandon and not taken care off, compared to the new…
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Portrait | Black and White Photography
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | My Son Playing With Puddle | Langkawi Kedah Some of you might not call this a black and white photograph but just a greyscale photograph. It doesn’t have that kind of deep solid black, just a shade of grey, you are right, this is not super deep rich black and white but that is not my point of this article. I know how to get a deep rich black and white but for this image I prefer it to be like this, a lighter version of black and white. I get a lot of emails asking me, how to know whether some picture will look…