• Art,  Photoshop,  Travel

    Photoshop Tips | Selective Editing | Dodging and Burning

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Traditional Sarawak Cultural Show | Annah Rais Longhouse | Sarawak In traditional photography during film days, dodging and burning were done inside the lightroom under the enlarger, where we burn certain part of the area to make it darker  and dodge certain part of the area to make it lighter. Under the enlarger, if we put more exposure “burn” certain part of the area which falls on the paper under the enlarger, that part will be darker and if we put less exposure “dodging”, that particular area will be lighter, yes it is reverse result if we printing from a negative film. The reason why…

  • Art,  Family,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Family Photography | It’s The Moment That Matters

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Son | Family Photography It’s been awhile that I play around with texture in my photograph, at one time I’m obsessed with texture and I find it very hard to get it right and after awhile, after I know how to get it right, I no longer find it challenging and that’s the reason why nowadays I rarely playing with texture in Photoshop. Anyway this photograph of my family, my wife and my son Raphael, still can stand on it’s own, with or without the editing, the reason is that it’s the moment that matters. Even though if I took this photograph with…

  • Art,  Family,  Portrait

    Children Portrait Photography | Baby, Baby Please Don’t Cry

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | My Son Raphael Crying I wish I’ve this kind of a picture myself, I mean, a photograph of me crying out loud when I was like my son age, it must be fun to look at it now when I was having a baby myself but unfortunately, I don’t have any. Anyway family portrait photography does not necessarily about cute looking face, does not necessarily about beautiful smiling face, it is about capturing a moments in our time and I believe that this kind of a picture will be priceless in the future, not may people can remember how they look like when they cry…

  • Family,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Family Photography | A Moment to Remember

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir| My Family | A Moment to Remember “If these picture have anything important to say to future generations, it’s this, I was here, existed. I was young, I was happy, and someone cared enough about me in this world to take my picture” – Robin Williams – Just forget about the color tones if it is not your cup of coffee but the most impotent thing is the moment, I don’t have this kind of a photographs  myself when I was a kid, I don’t have a photographs of me with my other siblings, our family does not have a camera back then, in those days…

  • Art,  Photoshop,  Travel

    Photography and Photo Editing

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Beyoglu | Istanbul Turkey | After Editing © 2012 Wazar Wazir | Beyoglu | Istanbul Turkey | SOOC | Before Editing When people ask me, I mean when new photographer or someone who just find an interest in photography ask me whether to edit or not their pictures, my answer will always “it depends”. Sometimes it depends on your clients requirement or maybe your own preference or simply you like to make your pictures look better than what they actually are. For those of you who have been following my blog for awhile, knows that I like to play around with Photoshop, sometime I like…