• Adventure,  Art,  Travel

    Photography Tips | Dealing With Low Light People Photography

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Buddhist Monk Light a Candles at Boudhanath Stupa | Kathmandu Nepal There are different type of situation when it comes to low light photography conditions. It can be landscape, architecture or simple people photography. The point is that, you are dealing with low light, very minimal light. Depending on the situation, our approach will differ, if you are shooting landscape or indoor architecture using only available light, using a tripod is a great help, so you can use Low ISO like ISO 100 or 200 and get all the details without increasing the ISO. But in this post I’m going to talk about photographing people…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Family,  Travel

    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…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Travel

    Travel and Photography | Low Light Photography in Kathmandu

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Devotees Light a Candles in Boudhanath Stupa | Kathmandu “Not a day goes by without a few hours of power cuts. Load shedding has now become a perennial problem and it is here to stay.” – Prasiddha Upadhaya, Hydropower Developer – Despite Nepal’s huge hydropower potential and more than half a century of experience starting with the Pharping hydro plant in 1911, to date, less than 1% of Nepal’s hydro-power resources have been tapped.  Furthermore, no significant effort has been exerted in tapping other energy sources. Crippled with power shortage, Himalayan country Nepal imposes extra hour of mandatory power cut. The situation is going to further…

  • Assignment,  Photojournalism,  Reportage Photography

    Low Light Photography | ISO 12800 Field Test at 25th World Gas Conference Kuala Lumpur

    © Wazari Wazir | Malaysia’s Prime Minister, Najib Razak (Red Tie) watch a stage performance after launching the 25th World Gas Conference in Kuala Lumpur, June 4 2012. I’ve a bit of fun testing the performance of Nikon newest professional camera D4 at high ISO, yes I know it can go further but I just wanted to test it at ISO 12800. I took this shot during 25th World Gas Conference here in Kuala Lumpur and what you see here is that, our Prime Minister watch a stage performance after launching the opening ceremony. This picture is nothing, I mean it will never be used but I took it anyway…