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Steve McCurry Masterclass Workshops
Mentioning Steve McCurry and most photographers will immediately refer him to the famous Afghan Girl name Sharbat Gula who grace the National Geographic Magazine cover in 1985. It is an iconic image until this day. Most people especially photographers knows about the story and about how after seventeen years Steve McCurry manage to trace her again. I was very lucky to have the opportunity to attend his class, Steve McCurry Masterclass – Photography Workshop organize by Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia in association with Epson Malaysia on 8th January 2010. I don’t want to write a long story here, just wanted to share something that I learn from his workshops. One…
- Art, Care, Culture, East, Emotion, Expression, Face, Family, Malaysia, Melayu, Moment, People, Photoshop, Portrait, Portraiture, Tender
HaiQal | Backlighting
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | Backlighting Portraiture | My Family When I start as a PRESS Photographers, among few things that bother photographers is “Backlighting”, whether it came from artificial light source or from natural light, sometimes PRESS photographers will shout or ask politely to their subject to move here and there to block the “backlighting”. Backlighting can cause “flare” that make our subject unclear especially on their face. Sometimes photographers will use flash and most of the times they do use flash to bring back light onto their subject face so it does not appear to be dark and it is true that metering is tricky for backlighting. To…