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Photography Tips | How To Get Beautiful Bokeh
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Daughter Arianna “Bokeh” has evolved somewhat from its original meaning. Bokeh is now commonly used to refer to blurred lights or shapes within an image, where as, the term more accurately describes the aesthetic quality of the out-of-focus area of a photograph. Therefore, it is possible to have ‘good’ or ‘bad’ bokeh, (although that is purely subjective), but in essence, it’s all about the area of an image that falls outside the depth-of-field. In photography, the term bokeh represents the quality of the magical out-of-focus blur that makes it look like the subject is isolated from the background. It is visually appealing for…
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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…
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Photography Tips | How To Photograph Reflections In Water
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | An Abandon Debris of an Old Airplane at Bario Sarawak There are many tips on how to photograph reflections in water. The best time of the day, depending on location maybe during early morning or during late afternoon and if you choose to photograph a reflection at the lake where it was quite busy with the people like at Phewa Lake in Nepal is during early morning when the lake was calm (because less people paddling a boat on the lake, less ripples) , so there were no ripples in the water and you will get picture perfect postcard of Annapurna Range. It’s like a giant…
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Travel Photography Tips | Finding The Best Composition
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Buffalo at Bario | Sarawak Sometimes what separate good photograph from the bad one is the composition. From the main road, what will catch your eyes is the last photograph, there were a woodshed behind the buffalo, that background is not a good background. Too cluttered to make the buffalo standout, I almost never took the shot but I just took it, so I can make a comparison to my blog readers. On the right side of the woodshed is a beautiful background, if I choose the right composition, I can make the buffalo to stand out against the beautiful background covered by thick mist.…
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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…