• Assignment,  Photojournalism,  Politic,  Reportage Photography

    Photojournalism | The Photographers and The Prime Minister

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | The Photographers and The Prime Minister at Kuala Lumpur Sentral This is how we the Photojournalist work to get the picture of our Prime Minister Najib Razak during one of my assignment here in Kuala Lumpur Sentral, actually my assignment start in Putrajaya and then we ride the ERL or Express rail Link together with the Prime Minister and all his Cabinet Ministers to Kuala Lumpur Sentral where the main event took place. How do I get the shot? You might be wondering, actually there are few taxis behind waiting for their cars to get the  Malaysian flag stick onto their windscreen by the Prime…

  • Adventure,  Life,  Malaysia,  Moment,  People,  Photojournalism,  Travel

    Travel Photography | Human Touch

    © 2008 Wazari Wazir | Mabul Island | Sabah | Malaysia North Borneo I’m taking a break from posting my son picture here, just to make my blog a little bit interesting. This entry is about travel photography, from my point of view. I’m not an expert on this field because I’m not a travel photographer by profession, even though I wish I were but nevertheless as a photographer I do travel a lot but this photograph above which I took in 2008 is not part of my official assignment. This is personal photographic outing with my friends in Mabul Island of Sabah. Let me get straight without wasting too…

  • Family,  Life,  Moment

    Children and Toys | A Child Best Friends

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Son HaiQal and His Toys | Getting Organized I don’t have much to write here, just wanted to share with you a picture of my son and his toys. I guess he was so lucky to have so many toys unlike me when I was a little child, I used to make my very own toys back then, making our own  kite, making our own weapon from the plank of woods and few other things. Maybe at that time, there were not many toys available and furthermore we seldom get a chance to visit the city, I mean my family seldom take us to…

  • Art,  Expression,  Family,  Travel

    Basic Photography | The Art of Composition

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Paddy Field | Sungai Besar Selangor Photography is a highly subjective matter, especially when we talk about the artistic aspect of photography. Just like painting, some people can understand and appreciate abstract or modern art while others can only appreciate simple art or straight forward art where they can clearly see the subjective matter, whether it is a portrait or  landscape where abstract art is a little bit complicated to be understand for most people on the street including me. Personally for me, when it comes to composition, it is also a subjective matter, yes we all know about rule of third, golden rules and…

  • Art,  Editing,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Basic Photography | RAW vs JPEG | Why I Shoot RAW and Why You Shouldn’t

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | Blue Mosque | Istanbul Turkey I don’t want to write a lengthly post about this RAW vs Jpegs, I don’t want to waste your time and my times writing something that unimportant here. First of all I would like to make things clear that Great picture is a great picture, it is not necessarily shot in RAW format, it is just a file format which have it’s advantage and disadvantage. Yes I shoot RAW but I don’t shoot RAW all the times, before we go further and before you asked me what is the benefit of shooting RAW vs Jpeg, I would like to point…