• Art,  Expression,  Life,  Moment,  Portraiture

    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…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Expression,  Family,  Life,  Moment,  People,  Portrait

    Portrait | Black and White Photography Tips

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son Some people say, doing black and white is easy, I mean to convert from a color picture to black and white is a simple process as simple as A,B,C, it’s true, it’s very easy, just desaturate it or covert it into grey scale and you get black and white photograph, but to get a quality black and white photograph is not easy, at least for me, it was very easy for me to edit a color photograph than to edit a black and white picture. A lot of people have ask me, how I do my black and white editing, I…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Emotion,  Face,  Hitam Putih,  Life,  Love,  Malaysia,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | A Picture is worth a Thousand Words | A Portrait of My Family A picture is worth a thousand words, we have heard this quote, time and time again, and it was so true, sometimes words just not enough, we need to show it visually, so people can understand a story without telling it verbally. The quote above is sometimes attributed to emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, who said “Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours,” or “A good sketch is better than a long speech”. A picture above is a picture of my wife and my son, sharing a happy moment together, my wife try…