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Basic Photography | Composition | Simplicity
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Son | Paddy Field | Sekinchan Selangor “As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.” – Sam Abell ( National Geographic Photographer ) – This photograph may look too simple , just a picture of my wife holding my son on his arm, if I tell you that the background is a wall with giant paddy field picture on it, you might believe it because it was too simple, the background is too plain. The truth…
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Basic Photography | Capturing Blue Hour Photography
© Wazari Wazir | Petronas Twin Tower at Kuala Lumpur City Centre ( KLCC ) | Blue Hour Photography According to Wikipedia The Blue Hour comes from the French expression “l’heure bleue,” which refers to the period of twilight each morning and evening where there is neither full daylight nor complete darkness. The time is considered special because of the quality of the light at this time of day. The time just before sunrise or after sunset. Among the most favorite subject for Blue Hour photography is landscape, building or cityscapes. I’m not an expert on this subject because I rarely shoot landscape, building or cityscape but nevertheless I do know that the best time to…
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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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Portrait Photography | The Power of Simplicity
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Portrait Photography | Simplicity “The Ability to Simplify Means to Eliminate the Unnecessary so that the Necessary May Speak.” | Hans Hofmann When it comes to portrait photography, I like to keep things simple, the first thing that I will pay a very close attention is the background, I will try to find a clean, uncluttered background for my subject. This is vital, this is very important because background can make or break a portrait shot, I don’t want my background to take away viewers attention from the main subject. The background not only have to be clean but the color of the background is…
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Sunrise | My Hometown
© 2006 Wazari Wazir | Sunrise | Sabah | Malaysia North Borneo This photograph may seem like unreal or maybe surreal,but the truth is, it is real photograph, taken in 2006 at my wife hometown in Kuala Penyu Sabah, my wife hometown is my hometown also. There was a paddy field in the foreground but because I want to concentrate on the sunrise, I’ve to underexpose this picture a bit in order to get a rich sunrise tone and leaving the paddy field in dark area and can’t be seen in this photograph, but it was there in the shadow area. My hometown is rustic, tranquil, beautiful, very quiet, far…
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