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Action Photography | Sense of Movement
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Joy of Childhood | KLCC Park | ISO 100 | 1/20 | F 18 | Lens 10-20mm First of all I would like to let you know that this is not a Photoshop effect or tricks even though I know how to do it in Photoshop but this action shot, with a sense of movement and blurred background is done right in the camera. I’ve to try many times to get this shot right, I mean to get my son face in focus, not too blurred, you cannot get super sharp image while panning but the point is to get the face of the subject…
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Environmental Portrait | Family Day Outing at Kuala Lumpur City Centre
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Family | Kuala Lumpur City Centre KLCC My wife was struggling to hold my son because he wanted to free, running here and there. It was clear blue sky here in Kuala Lumpur on Federal Day Territory day, a public holiday for Kuala Lumpur resident and also for Putrajaya and Labuan Island. This is a safe place for my son to run here and there and the water on that pond behind is not so deep, my son will not get drown by it, maybe get wet a little if he falls down but I just wanted to take a picture of them together,…
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Photography | What is EXIF Data? | What Can You Learn From Photo EXIF Data
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | The Photographer and His Camera | My Son Actually First of all, what is EXIF, what it stand for? EXIF stand for Exchangeable image file format (Exif) is a specification for the image file format used widely by digital camera. EXIF was created by the Japan Electronic Industries Development Association (JEIDA). Version 2.1 of the specification is dated June 12, 1998, and the latest, version 2.3 dated April 2010, was jointly formulated by JEITA and CIPA. Though the specification is not currently maintained by any industry or standards organization, its use by camera manufacturers is nearly universal. The metadata tags defined in the Exif standard cover a broad spectrum: Date…
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Portrait Photography Tips | How To Get Dark or Black Background
© 2008 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of HaiQal | 50mm | F1.8 | 1/125 | ISO 200 Sorry guys, I don’t have any new picture of my son HaiQal, so I hope you don’t mind if I’m sharing with you a picture of my son taken in 2008. Just don’t get me wrong, I still have great passion taking picture of my son, I’m not losing interest or busy with my work, the truth is, it become too difficult to get my son on the camera. He runs faster than I can catch my breath. Usually I will take a picture of my son just around my house but when…
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Asas Fotografi | Tips Untuk Mendapatkan Bokeh
© 2008 Wazari Wazir | Playing With Bokeh | Petaling Street | Kuala Lumpur | 50mm | ISO 200 | F2 | 1/800 BOKEH, satu perkataan yang begitu asing bagi saya pada satu ketika dulu, masa zaman filem jarang saya mendengar perkataan ni. Bokeh sering menjadi sebutan di kalangan generasi baru ataupun generasi Kamera Digital sekarang ini. Bokeh sebenarnya berasal dari Negara Matahari Terbit, ianya berasal dari perkataan Jepun “Boke” yang bermakna “kabur”. Dalam bahasa yang mudah di fahami BOKEH merujuk kepada kawasan gambar yang kabur, yang tidak jelas dalam gambar sebagaimana contoh gambar di atas di mana latarbelakang gambar tersebut tidak jelas kalau nak dibandingkan dengan wajah anak saya…