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Natural Light Portrait Photography
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Raphael Portrait With Window Natural Light | 50 mm | f/2.8 | ISO 100 | 1/200 © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Raphael Portrait With Natural Light | 50 mm | f/2.8 | ISO 100 | 1/200 If you have been following my blog, you will know that I like using natural light when it comes to photographing my kids. Natural light is free, but it is not available all the time, unlike using flash photography or artificial light, you can use it all the time. So the real challenge when using natural light is that, you need to act quickly before it gets too dark. The…
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Family Outing | China-Malaysia Friendship Garden | Putrajaya
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Haiqal and Raphael Looks a Little Bit Tense Because They Wanted To Be Free © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Arianna With Her Mother | Arianna With Her Grandmother (Right) © 2014 Wazari Wazir | My Family at China-Malaysia Friendship Garden China-Malaysia Friendship Garden is another new interesting place or landmark in Putrajaya, it is quite an interesting place to have a photograph taken here but unfortunately I don’t have much to show you here. I was here with my family and together with my mother, I don’t want to make this family outing as a photography trip, because doing that will take too much time…
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Photojournalism | Muslims Celebrate Eid Al-Adha In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Muslims Sat On A Street Before Performing Special Eid Al-Adha Prayer Here in Kuala Lumpur, October 5, 2014. Eid al-Adha, or the Sacrifice Festival, is one of the major Islamic festivals. It falls on the 10th Zulhijjah on the Islamic calendar. Muslims all over the world are celebrating the festival of sacrifice, one of the most important holidays in Islam. Eid al-Adha celebrations start after the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, by Muslims worldwide. The photographs above were not taken for my assignment, I just wanted to captured the spirit of Eid Al-Adha among the muslims foreigner living in Kuala Lumpur, especially…
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Travel Photography | The Early Bird Gets The Worm
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Beautiful Early Morning Mist at Bario Sarawak “And I walked for hours, imagining the mist growing thick and swallowing me whole. The thought of disappearing like that, so simply, made me so happy.” – Jay Asher – “The Early Bird Gets The Worm”. I think everyone knows that and when it comes to photography, those who rise early definitely have a chance to get a better photographs. Normally the best lighting when it comes to natural light is during early morning and late afternoon when the sun is low in the sky. We often refer it to the golden light, but there is also a…
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Photography Tips | Children Close Up Portraiture
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Close Up Portraiture of My Daughter Arianna “I always felt like the close-up portrait was the most essential, the most valid picture out there, it was just all about the person, not about their clothes, not about the environment, not about their background, not giving any hints to their social status.” – Martin Schoeller – Lately I like to do some kind of environmental portraiture shot for my family picture, I like to have some kind of background story about whereabout my subject, the places they have been to, for an instance, but in doing so, the portrait, I mean the face of the person in…