• Art,  Expression,  Family,  Melayu,  Portrait,  Travel

    Portrait Photography | Expression Beats Perfection

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Son | Blue Valley | Cameron Highlands “Epression beats perfection any day of the week, and if you have the most perfect photograph in the universe it’s a zero if you have no expression from your subjects.” – Bambi Cantrell – When it comes to portrait photography, I’ve to agree with Bambi Cantrell quote above “Expression Beats Perfection”. If you are familiar with portrait photography, more or less the pose is almost the same but what makes each portrait differ from one another is the expression from the subjects, whether they are smiling, laughing, serious or  sad looking face. There is so much…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Expression,  Portrait

    Children Black and White Portraiture

    © 2008 Wazari Wazir | Black and White Portrait of My Son | HaiQal “When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes.  But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!”  – Ted Grant – Tweet news and informationbusiness,health,entertainment,technology automotive,business,crime,health,life,politics,science,technology,travel

  • Art,  eBook,  Editing,  People,  Travel

    Photography and Photoshop Editing | Color Tones

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | RAW (Left) and Phtoshop Color Tone Editing | Mesilau Sabah © 2010 Wazari Wazir | RAW (Left) and Photoshop Tone editing | Jodhpur | Rajasthan India Playing with Photoshop Color Tones is more of an option, rather than a necessity. What drives me to explore this color tone is because I like what I saw in  deviantART website. I like how the photographers there express their photographic vision with colors and most of them did not use a default color that comes with their camera default setting, instead they tweaked their colors so that they come out with beautiful color tone, well, at least I…

  • Art,  eBook,  Editing,  Moment,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    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…

  • Art,  eBook,  Editing,  Light

    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…