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Children and Toys | A Child Best Friends
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Son HaiQal and His Toys | Getting Organized I don’t have much to write here, just wanted to share with you a picture of my son and his toys. I guess he was so lucky to have so many toys unlike me when I was a little child, I used to make my very own toys back then, making our own kite, making our own weapon from the plank of woods and few other things. Maybe at that time, there were not many toys available and furthermore we seldom get a chance to visit the city, I mean my family seldom take us to…
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Basic Digital Photography Tips | How To Choose The Right ISO For Your Digital Photography
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Joy of Reading | ISO 1000 | 1/60 | f/5.6 | 10-20mm UWA Lens © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Jumping With Joy | ISO 5000 | 1/125 | f/4.8 | 10-20mm UWA Lens Before I go further I would like to let you know what is ISO stand for. ISO is International Standard Organization or The International Organization for Standardization. In plain English it is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations. Enough about that, I don’t want to go deeper about that organization, all I wanted to share with you here is the relation of ISO with photography, photographers often talk about ISO,…
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Basic Photography | When To Use Spot Meter?
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | RAW Original File | Unedit © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Minor Editing | Just Color Enhancement There is a reason why camera manufacturer provide us with different set of metering mode, it is to make our job easier in order to get nice exposure, well balance exposure. It was not difficult to change a camera mode in your camera, but some people just don’t know how or when to do it or why they need to change the metering mode. If you take your time to read the Manual, you will find out that there are many type of metering that your camera offer. Among…
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Basic Photography | Tips & Technique | How To Get Sharp Images With 50mm Lens
50mm Lens can be considered as the most popular portrait lens, I think most people have one in their camera bag. The reason is simple, 50mm lens is the most affordable lens with good quality glass. The most popular one is 50mm f/1.8, whether you are Nikon or Canon owner, this is the most affordable one and a little bit expensive one is 50mm f/1.4 or Canon f/1.2 ( Expensive ), at the moment of writing Nikon does not produce new 50mm f/1.2 manual lens, they only have 50mm f/1.2 manual lens, maybe they will have it in the future. Another reason why 50mm is the most favorite lens is…
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Basic Photography | RAW vs JPEG | Why I Shoot RAW and Why You Shouldn’t
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | Blue Mosque | Istanbul Turkey I don’t want to write a lengthly post about this RAW vs Jpegs, I don’t want to waste your time and my times writing something that unimportant here. First of all I would like to make things clear that Great picture is a great picture, it is not necessarily shot in RAW format, it is just a file format which have it’s advantage and disadvantage. Yes I shoot RAW but I don’t shoot RAW all the times, before we go further and before you asked me what is the benefit of shooting RAW vs Jpeg, I would like to point…