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Portrait Photography | Black and White Photography Tips
© 2008 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son | Mr Big Eyes When it comes to black and white portrait photography, I will always try to keep it simple. Uncluttered background, less distraction element. Black and white will not work well for every picture, only certain picture will really look great if we convert in into black and white photography. When I took this picture of my son in 2008, I have a clear idea, what the photograph will end up to be, I mean the finished product. I want to convert the photograph into black and white, so I will make sure all the element are there, I…
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Advanced Photoshop Tips | Adding Texture To A Photograph
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait With Texture Basically adding texture to a photograph is not really a difficult process, all you have to do is find a texture that you like and then choose a photograph that you want to add a texture into it and just blend it together in Photoshop, you can choose Overlay, Screen or Soft Light blending option under layer palette and you are done, it is that simple. Sound that easy right? Same like taking picture, anybody who have a camera, be it iPhone camera, compact or DSLR can take picture, even a toddler can press a shutter button and take picture, the…
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Basic Photoshop Tips | How To Use Layer Mask To Create Montage
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Simple Technique to Create Montage Using Layer Mask Among the most powerful tool in Photoshop is “Layer Mask”, during my Photoshop Workshops with Spylens Studio in Kota Kinabalu last week end, I spent quite a lot of time explaining to the participants, how they can make use Layer Mask for selective editing. Not just that once they have a grasp of Layer Mask, they can use it to channel their creativity further. This is not really a tutorial but basically just wanted to show what you can do with Layer Mask especially those who are new with “Masking” technique in Photoshop. It was easy to…
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Portrait Photography | Senior Portraiture | Close Up
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Senior Muslimah Portraiture This photograph were taken during Spylens Studio photography workshop held in Lok Kawi outskirts of Kota Kianablu Sabah. It was taken purely with just natural light, without reflector. I’m not doing any senior photography business but if I’ve free times and if I get an invitation from my photography friends, I will join them for fun. I like to get a close up shot of the person I’m photographing, just like a portrait of My son, I like to get really close and I’m not interested to get cheeky smiling face on my photograph. I like my subject to relax, maybe a…
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Photoshop Killer Tips | How To Get Muted Color Tone In Adobe Camera RAW
Just wanted to share some of the simplest way how you can get muted color or less vibrance color inside ACR or Adobe Camera RAW. Just open any picture in ACR or Adobe Camera RAW. If you don’t have RAW file, you can also open Jpeg file in ACR from BRIDGE, please refer to my previous post if you wanted to know how you can open your Jpeg file in ACR. Once you get your picture in Adobe Camera RAW, just follow the next step. It was really straight forward process. Just push the “Temperature” to somewhere around 10 000 to 30 000, in this picture I set the Temperature…