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    All About Bokeh Photography

    Bokeh come from Japanese word “boke”, which means “blur” or “haze” or “boke-aji”, “the blur quality”. To put it simple to understand “Bokeh” is the blur or out of focus area of an image, like the picture of my son and my wife above, the “Blurry” part or the “out of focus” area in the picture above is what people called “Bokeh”. I don’t want to talk about good Bokeh or bad Bokeh here, I just want to talk about how to get a Bokeh, different lenses with difference focal length and different aperture will render Bokeh differently, for the picture above I use 50mm lens shooting at f1.8. The…

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    A Printed Memory

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | A Printed Memory “A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.” ( Albert Einstein )   Tweet news and informationbusiness,health,entertainment,technology automotive,business,crime,health,life,politics,science,technology,travel

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    A Moment of Childhood

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait of My Son You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing.  What!  Is it nothing to be happy?  Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long?  Never in his life will he be so busy again. ( Jean-Jacques Rousseau ) Child is unpredictable, they enjoy every moment, they enjoy the present and always have something that attract their attention, they are curious about anything, from a small tiny things to a bigger things. I like watching my son playing and as usual I watch him with my camera always beside me. My favorite lens for taking…

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    How To Get a Solid Black Background

    How to get a solid black background, I get a lot of question about this especially from someone who just start taking out photography, well I’ve the answer, just wait for my next eBook, I’ll tell you the secret. I’m just kidding, there is no how to actually but just a common sense. I’m not going to sell anything here but wanted to share my technique about how to get a solid black background like the picture of my son above. Interested? Then read on. I will go straight to the point here. First thing first, I did not take this shot in the studio, in fact I’ve never take…

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    How To Play With Texture in Photoshop

    © 2008 Wazari Wazir | Playing With Photoshop Texture Recently someone have asked me how to do Texture in Photoshop, should they do it in colors or should they turn the picture into black and white or sepia before proceed with texture layering. My answer is, up to you. Why? You may ask, it is because there is no rules when doing texture in Photoshop, you can do it in color or in monochromatic image, but there is a guide that you wanted to know in order to make your texture work look great. If you are interested, then read on. First thing first, the number one reason why I…