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Istanbul | Travel Photography Tips | Don’t Forget To Take An Establishing Shots
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Eminonu | Istanbul Turkey Have you ever read any travel photography magazines lately? Have you look at their centre spread? Normally most travel; magazines, especially when the article focus on one particular city or country will use a centre spread to put an establishing shot, normally it will involved a wide angle view of certain places, main attraction of that particular place, to put context to the photograph and also a way to introduce the viewers to the geographical location of a particular scene just like in the movie. This establishing shot does not look great in small size, because it is complicated, there is so…
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Happy Birthday My Son | Happy Birthday Raphael
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Raphael is One Year Old on 7th June 2012 | Syukur Alhamdulillah © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Happy Birthday Raphael – Anak – When you were born into this world Your mom and dad saw a dream fulfilled Dream come true The answer to their prayers You were to them a special child Gave ’em joy every time you smiled Each time you cried They’re at your side to care Child, you don’t know You’ll never know how far they’d go To give you all their love can give To see you through and God it’s true They’d die for you, if they must, to…
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Photojournalism | Thank You Mr. Bodyguard | 25th World Gas Conference 2012
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak (Centre), President and Chief Executive Officer of Malaysia’s state oil firm Petronas, Shamsul Azhar Abbas (Left) and and President of the International Gas Union, Abdul Rahim Hashim (Right), arrive for the opening of the 25th World Gas Conference 2012 in Kuala Lumpur June 4, 2012. © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Thank You Mr. Bodyguard Good ob is a good job, and I’ve to say “Thank You Mr. Bodyguard” especially to the Malaysia’s Prime Minister’s Bodyguard for clearing the space to give a great photo opportunity for photojournalist to get a better uninterrupted view of our Prime Minister’s upon his arrival…
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Travel Photography | Istanbul Turkey | Aya Sofya | Hagia Sophia in False Color
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Aya Sofya | Hagia Sophia | Istanbul Turkey I know that this kind of colors does not goes well for many travel photographer because, it was unrealistic but, Aya Sofya or Hagia Sophia has been photographs for more than a million times from every possible imaginable angle and I think this kind of false color treatment will bring a new look to this iconic building. When most visitors spend one or two hours here, inside the Aya Sofya, I spent more than four hours inside and try to photograph as much as I can because I cannot came here everyday and I don’t know when…
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Low Light Photography | ISO 12800 Field Test at 25th World Gas Conference Kuala Lumpur
© Wazari Wazir | Malaysia’s Prime Minister, Najib Razak (Red Tie) watch a stage performance after launching the 25th World Gas Conference in Kuala Lumpur, June 4 2012. I’ve a bit of fun testing the performance of Nikon newest professional camera D4 at high ISO, yes I know it can go further but I just wanted to test it at ISO 12800. I took this shot during 25th World Gas Conference here in Kuala Lumpur and what you see here is that, our Prime Minister watch a stage performance after launching the opening ceremony. This picture is nothing, I mean it will never be used but I took it anyway…