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Basic Photography | Improve Your Photograph With The Right Cropping
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Expressive Portrait Photography | Improve Your Photograph With The Right Cropping In photography cropping is also the way how you compose your photograph but normally we use composition technique when it comes to picture taking process and we use crop when it comes to editing in Photoshop or in any photo editing software but basically they are more or less quite the same. During picture taking process you can crop the picture in the frame which we call “composition” meaning that you choose what should be in the frame and cut out unwanted part with careful composition. Cropping is also part of editing skills apart…
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Photography and Photoshop Editing
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Putrajaya Botanical Garden © 2011 Wazari Wazir | (Left) RAW Unedited | (Right) Edited in Photoshop To be honest with you, I hate to write about this topic and I hate it when someone say that a photograph look great because if editing and they tend to forget the photography factor to get the shot, to get it right in the camera. I will write based on my personal experience. Whether you want to edit or not, it’s up o you, it’s your photograph, it’s your work and it’s your masterpiece, you can be purist and stick with a traditional photographic approach or embrace new…
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Flash Photography | Making Light II | Advanced Use of Off-Camera Flash
© 2011 Craft and Vision | Making Light II | Piet Van Den Eynde MAKING LIGHT II takes an in-depth look at how to get the most from your off-camera flashes. Piet takes you beyond sync speed and softboxes and gets into the details on working with multiple flashes, modifiers, and triggering systems for both Canon and Nikon. This massive eBook also includes 10 case-studies and 4 interviews that provides you with the context necessary to put these insights into action; as well as, tips on what to put in your gear bag. These advanced techniques are the perfect follow-up to the first Making Light eBook and it is an…
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Photography Composition Tips | Negative Space
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Take a Break With Ice Cream | 50mm | f/1.8 | 1/640 | ISO 200 Basically Negative space is the space within a photograph which is left unused. Negative space is a great way to help add emphasis to your main subject. Negative space usually is an empty space, it is not an important part of the photograph and usually we don’t focus on that area and most of the times we leave the empty space out of focus or blur but nevertheless if we use it wisely it can have a profound impact to the photograph. Actually there are three main component when it comes…
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Photojournalist | Talent is Not Enough
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | The Photojournalist at Work | Parliament & Indoor Stadium Some photographer will say that gear doesn’t matter, it’s the person behind the camera that matters. To the certain extend, we can say that but we must be realistic when using those words. Photographers are not create equal, unless you shoot for fun, just for a hobby, a weekend photographers, your gear might not be so important because your life does not depend on photography, but for those who make a living through photography, gear does matters, in this post I will write about Photojournalist. As a photojournalist we are required to cover many things, there…