• Art,  Black and White,  Family,  Moment,  Photojournalism,  Portrait

    Telling Stories With a Photograph | A Conversation With Mother

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | A Conversation With Mother at Kinokuniya Bookstore I personally think that the basis of a photography is to tell a story with a photograph, that’s why they called it a Photograph Worth a Thousand Words. A photograph is a visual language where most of the times people don’t need any explanation about the picture if it can tells a story on it’s own. Some photograph can be like an abstract where people don’t know head and tails about it until they read a caption about it while others is just pure and simple where people can easily understood about the story of the picture. I…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Expression,  Family,  Life,  Moment,  Portrait

    Portrait Photography | A Moment of Silence

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son | A Moment f Silence It may look like my son were sitting there forever in that position but the truth is, it is the only shot that I got before in less than  thirty seconds my son runs away. I was so lucky to get this one single shot even though he doesn’t look at the camera but it doesn’t matter because I like the moment of silence that my son portray here when in fact the moment before he was so busy running here and there. I’ve learn from my experience taking picture of my son that, we should…

  • Assignment,  Book,  News,  Photojournalism

    Photojournalist and Bounce Flash

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Photojournalist at Work With Bounce Flash I’ve written an article not too long ago about why Photojournalist seldom use bounce flash when taking picture, most of the times, they will use direct flash for their assignment. As a Photojournalist myself I’ve write in the article about why we photojournalist don’t use a direct flash in certain circumstances. You can read about direct flash syndrome HERE In that article, I’ve mention that we as a photojournalist captured a moment not create a moment, so that when dealing with a person especially high profile personality, we usually don’t have much time to “make a picture”. What we can…

  • Art,  Expression,  Face,  Family,  Moment,  Portrait

    Portrait Photography | Expressive Portraiture

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Expressive Portraiture This is what my son will do when he get tired of me chasing him around with my camera. He want to be free playing around, after all these years he get so accustomed to the camera but still, it will never be easy for me to photograph him. Sometimes he just is not in the mood. For me I will never get tired taking picture of my son, I like to capture his expression, even though the composition is still the same, the angle is still the same but each and every time I photograph him, the expression will be different. I…