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Newborn Photography Tips | How To Get a Black Background
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | My Daughter Arianna | 50 mm | ISO 200 | 1/80 | F/2.8 This is among my favourite pose for my little baby, I’ve done similar pose for my my sons HaiQal and Raphael when they were few weeks old and this time it’s for my daughter Arianna. A lot of my friends had asked me on how I did this photograph, actually it was pretty simply, you don’t need expensive studio lighting, you don’t even need a flash because I’m using a natural late afternoon light here. But off-course you need some other materials other than your DLSR and I believe those of you…
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Photoshop Editing | Before and After Photoshop Toning Effects
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Original RAW Photograph | Just Convert to Jpeg © 2013 Wazari Wazir | After Simple Tone Curves Adjustment In my Photoshop Toning Effects II eBook, I’ve mention that different picture will yield different result even though you applied the same tone curves effect in Photoshop. To get the best result, the picture should have great lighting in the first place, early morning and late afternoon light work best for toning effect, in fact even without any editing, you still can get great result. The top photograph above were shot with RAW, I just convert it into Jpeg and that’s it. RAW file is dull, lack…
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Newborn Photography | Black Against Black Background
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Daughter This is just a simple set up that I like to do with my newborn, previously I’ve done it to my son HaiQal and Raphael when they were few weeks old. Anyway this is just a simple set up. For a start we need to get a dark background and for this purpose I use a black velvet, this one is 4 meter long but three meter long will do, I prefer black velvet because it is not that expensive and it can absorb light, so they will produced deep black. My wife wearing a deep blue long sleeve T-shirt with deep…
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Newborn Photography | Baby Bath
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Arianna | Baby Bath We don’t have any fancy bath tube to begin with just normal ordinary plastic basin to bath our baby. Actually it is a little of an adventure to bath a one week old baby, they are so small and vulnerable. This is not a beautiful picture but someone once told me, that we can’t remember what was happening to us during this period of time until we reach three or four years old. Hopefully with this photograph, Arianna will have a glimpse of what does it looks like when her mother give him a bath. Most babies will cry during bathing time,…
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Newborn | Natural Light Photography
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Little Princess With Grandmother | 24mm | ISO 1000 | f/2.8 | 1/40 Photography is about light. The term comes from The Greek word phos, photos – light and graphos – writing. The word photography means writing with light but most photographers claim they are painting with light! This ‘writing with light’ or as us photographers say ‘ painting with light’ was first reputed to have been termed by Sir John Herschel to William Henry Fox Talbot in letter in 1839. Herschel was an English astronomer who also devised the words negative and positive. A lot of his work involved chemistry which was the forerunner of the black and…