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Child Portraiture | Extreme Close-Up | Expressive Portraiture
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son | Extreme Close Up | Expressive Portraiture “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough” – Robert Capa – Extreme portrait shot of my son above were taken with my favorite 50mm lens shoot at ISO 200 at n aperture of f2, I just add the grain in Photoshop to make it look like film effect. I rarely shoot my son picture at Higher ISO, unless I don’t have much choice like in the book store for an example where the light is quite dim. This is a crop version from the actual photograph where full head and shoulder were in…
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Photoshop Tips & Tricks | Selective Coloring | Black and White and Colors
In this quick Photoshop Tips and Tricks I would like to share with you among the most favorite selective coloring in Photoshop where you can see some image in colors while some other part is in monochrome or in Black and white. Just to let you know also that there are many ways to get this kind of effect, I’m sharing with you one of my favorite technique even though I seldom do it because I’m not a fan of selective coloring but I like to show you how to do it, if you are interested to know. STEP 1 : Just open any picture in Photoshop, hopefully a picture…
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Adobe Photoshop Tutorial | The Classic S – Curves
I just wanted to share with you basic tutorial how we can dramatically increase the contrast and tone in a picture by using simple Curves in Photoshop. This is very easy and quick way to really make your subject stand out in term in colors and contrast. Just open up your picture in Photoshop and go to Menu > Image > Adjustment > Curves to start and follow the next step. Now once your Curves dialogue box appear, just adjust the Curves so that you get something like the picture above, get the Curves to look like S. By pushing the Highlights a bit and by reducing or pushing down the…
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Children Photography | The Essence of Childhood
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | The Essence of Childhood | My Son Playing With His favorite Toys “If You Carry Your Childhood With You, You Never Become Older.” ( Tom Stoppard ) My son just woke up actually and as usual he will be looking for his toys and start playing around. He have nothing much to worry but just to play all day long. He is quite lucky because we as a parent can afford to buy him a simple toy, unlike during my childhood days where we came from not so rich family, my father rarely bought me a new toys, in fact I can hardly remember if…
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Portrait Photography | The Art of Backlighting
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son | ISO 200 | F2 | 1/1250 What is Backlighting? As the name suggest, Backlighting refers to lighting in a photograph that comes from behind an object or a person. The lighting can be from many source, it can be a natural light or artificial light as long as the main source of the light coming from behind the subject, it is called a backlighting. Most of the times backlighting comes from ambient light around the subject of the photograph. If you look at the picture of my son above, the lighting coming from the early morning sunrise which is from the right…