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The Photographer’s Life | My Life
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | My Wife and My Son | Kuala Lumpur City Centre There is a reason why I don’t do part time photography like some others working photographers do. Photography is my career, I’m a full time working photographer for the Government of Malaysia. Most of my assignment involved official government functions and sometimes it happens during weekends like New Year or even during Eid ul-Fitr where most people celebrate the big days with their family. Unlike other government servant, as a photographer we don’t work only during normal office hour, sometimes we work until midnight like my latest assignment covering Kerdau state by-elections where we work…
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Child Photography Tips | Joy of Childhood
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Joy of Childhood | Petronas Twin Tower KLCC Child photography will always be a challenge especially if it involved our very own child, they will never stand still, always on the move, full of energy. In this post I’m going to talk about how we can freeze those great moment. The most important thing that need to keep in mind is this, always make sure that we use a very fast shutter speed when photographing a children especially if they are on the move. For the picture above I shutter speed 1/160, aperture f8 and using ISO 100. It is not fast enough but nevertheless…
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Travel Photography | Choosing The Right Lens
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | KLCC Kuala Lumpur City Centre Park | Children’s Pool | 10 – 20mm Sometime having the right lens does matter in term of story telling especially in travel photography. Most of the times in travel photography, we want to include all the landmark that we can fit into the frame. In this case, I need to include the Petronas Twin Tower behind as my backdrop, so people will know where this picture is taken, which is at KLCC children’s pool area. To someone who haven’t visit here will also know that this area is close to the tower and to the foreigners can relate the…
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Photography | Shooting in Tricky Lighting Conditions
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Le Tour de Langkawi | Kuala Lumpur City Centre | ISO 400 | 1/1600 | F4 | 10 – 20mm As a photographer, sometimes we have to deal with a situation like this, a situation where the lighting condition can fools our camera. Most of the times if we use a Program Mode, your camera metering system will take and average reading of the situation and makes it own decision about the exposure. Your camera doesn’t know which is your main subject in the frame. All they care is to get the exposure right, “according to the camera metering system”. Believe me, if you are…
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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,…