• Art,  eBook,  Editing,  Photoshop

    Photoshop | How To Make Your Own Photoshop Preset

    The truth to be told is I rarely use Photoshop Preset, simply because most of my pictures need a different treatment, need a different adjustment, but for those of you who have purchase my Photoshop Tone eBook and wanted to know how to “Save” those adjustment especially “Tone Curves Adjustment”, so every time you wanted to get that same color tone, you don’t have to manually adjusting them, instead you just choose from custom preset and hit the button and you’re done. In this tutorial, I will share how to make your own Curves Preset in Photoshop. I’m not going to tell you how to make a beautiful Tone Curves…

  • Art,  Assignment,  Black and White,  Life,  Photojournalism,  Politic

    Photography | Photojournalism | Your Camera Does Matter

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Dr. Manmohan Singh ( L ) and Najib Tun Razak ( R ) | Prime Minister Office | Putrajaya The above picture is the latest high profile assignment that was assign to me from my photography department during Official Visit of His Excellency Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India and Mrs. Gursharan Kaur to Malaysia on 27th October in  outside Malaysia Prime Minister Office PMO Putrajaya. This is a photography blog so I will not write long history about Malaysia and India relationship and all other political news or related things, so I will focus on my job, my role as one of the…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Life,  Malaysia,  Travel

    Basic Photography | Composition | Rule of Thirds

    © 2008 Wazari Wazir | Sunset at Kota Kinabalu Sabah In my previous article I’ve wrote about basic rule of thirds and how we can create a pleasing image by position our subject a little bit off centre from the frame, either close to the right or to the left, same goes for landscape photography, where you position the  horizon does make a lot of different. Basic composition rules is, never put your horizon in the middle of the frame and please be remind also, this rule are not carved in stone, it is just a guideline only where people usually follow to create pleasing picture especially in landscape photography.…

  • History,  Malaysia,  Moment,  Photojournalism

    Sports Photography | The Importance of High ISO and High Speed

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Thomas Cup 2010 Kuala Lumpur  | ISO 5000 | 1/1250 | f2.8 | 300mm Lens Before this I have wrote a little bit about “How to choose a DSLR” depending on your needs and requirement. Now I’m going to write about the importance of having a camera with High ISO capability, I mean a camera that can shoot at a higher ISO more than just ISO 3200 that most entry level camera have. Most importantly is to have a camera that is capable of producing “clean” image with less visible noise at higher ISO. Sports event doesn’t happen all the time in the outdoors, in…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Expression,  Life,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Senior Portrait Photography | Black and White

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Senior Portrait Photography It’s been awhile that I shoot any pretty face lately, thanks to my friend Ishak Hamzah for inviting me for this photo shoot, we shoot in the late afternoon and the weather wasn’t very good, it rains and we have to cut our photo shoot less than an hour after its start. Most of the times I join photo shoot like this is because I want to meet some friends, face to face, rather than busy with facebook and all other social media. It’s good to be able to meet your facebook friends in real life, sharing and exchanging ideas, just like…