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    Sea Gypsies | Life in Black and White

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Sea Gypsies | Life in Black and White | Maiga Island Semporna Sabah “Life is like a good black and white photograph, there’s black, there’s white, and lots of shades in between.”  – Karl Heiner – About this picture, actually I did both editing with this photograph, I mean I did edit this photograph in colors first but then I did not satisfied with the outcome and then I try to desaturate  a bit the colors which you can find the photograph in my flickr site and then I did a black and white version like what you looking at here. I like both but…

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    Basic Photography | Point of View in Photography

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | HaiQal | Untitled Expression Basically POV or Point of View refer to the position from which the camera take the photograph. Are you taking the picture from above, looking down on the subject or are you taking the picture from lower angle, looking up at the subject and how close or how far between you and the subject. Normally most photographers took picture from their eye level, it is natural to do so, all we have to do is just raise the camera to our eyes and start composing the shot but sometimes this normal point of view tend to create a mundane or boring…

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    Photoshop Killer Tips | How To Get Muted Color Tone In Adobe Camera RAW

    Just wanted to share some of the simplest way how you can get muted color or less vibrance color inside ACR or Adobe Camera RAW. Just open any picture in ACR or Adobe Camera RAW. If you don’t have RAW file, you can also open Jpeg file in ACR from BRIDGE, please refer to my previous post if you wanted to know how you can open your Jpeg file in ACR. Once you get your picture in Adobe Camera RAW, just follow the next step. It was really straight forward process. Just push the “Temperature” to somewhere around 10 000 to 30 000, in this picture I set the Temperature…

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    Telling Stories With a Photograph | A Conversation With Mother

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | A Conversation With Mother at Kinokuniya Bookstore I personally think that the basis of a photography is to tell a story with a photograph, that’s why they called it a Photograph Worth a Thousand Words. A photograph is a visual language where most of the times people don’t need any explanation about the picture if it can tells a story on it’s own. Some photograph can be like an abstract where people don’t know head and tails about it until they read a caption about it while others is just pure and simple where people can easily understood about the story of the picture. I…

  • Art,  Editing,  Emotion,  Family,  Moment,  Photoshop,  Portraiture

    Child Photography | It Can Be Tough Sometimes

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Child Photography | HaiQal With Book Actually this is not the Photograph that I have in mind, my idea is to to photograph my son holding the book and show it to me. Bu he seems to be more interested with the chocolate than the book, maybe because that book is not for him, does not interest him at all because there is not many pictures in it, just words and more words. I just bough that book from Kinokuniya Bookstore in Kuala Lumpur. The title of the book is Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson. If I get the shot that I want,…