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Basic Photography | Composition and Storytelling
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Son Having Fun at Independence Square | Dataran Merdeka | Kuala Lumpur Photographers always associate composition as The Art of Seeing, Composition is a key element of good photographs. How you compose your picture will have an impact on how it will perceived by the viewers. There is so much you can show and there is so little that you can show depending on your intention. If you just wanted to show your subject (portrait) then maybe using fast lens with big aperture will throw away the background and make your subject stand out, make it the main focus in the photograph. On the other hand if…
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Portrait Photography Tips | Get Closer
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait of My Son “If Your Pictures Aren’t Not Good Enough, You’re Not Close Enough.” – Robert Capa – Sometimes it was true, that our picture is not good enough if we are not close enough. But when it comes to portrait photography, we have to look it in a different ways, sometimes we need to leave some space for that particular person to have a room for breath or to have something in the background to add context to the photograph especially if we are talking about environmental portraiture where we need to show to the viewers about the subject, where he work,…
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Basic Photography | Why Using High ISO Does Matter
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Book Worm | 24mm | ISO 1600 | f/2.8 | 1/25 I believe that most of of you knows that the best ISO is always the lowest ISO like ISO 100 and below and using High ISO should be always your last resort when using Low ISO can’t do the job for whatever reason. As many of you already know, ISO number refer to the sensitivity of the sensor towards the light, the higher the ISO, the more sensitive the sensor towards the light and this will give you the advantage to use higher shutter speed compared to if you use Lower ISO which will…
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Once Upon a Time in Sekinchan | Vintage Photograph Editions
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Son | Sekinchan Paddy Field Few years back I was so crazy doing this kind of editing, I spent days and night looking for some tutorial on the internet, books and magazines to achieve this effect and after few years learning rigorously, finally I find my own way doing this close to my vision, off course it was a combination of what I’ve learn from all these years. This texture editing won’t work for every type of a picture, even though you have a solid background in Photoshop layering but without the right subject to begin with, the result may not look impressive.…
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Photoshop Tips and Tricks | How To Get Retro Color Effects
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Wife and My Son Raphael Back From The Clinic | Retro Color Effect There are many ways to get this effects, retro effect or old school kind of effect where we try to mimics the look of early 60s or 70s photograph where they lack contrast, a bit fade and lot’s of grain. The easiest way is off course to use a camera film, use High ISO Film like ISO 400 to 1600 and if you use expired roll of film, maybe you will get a better result, “better” here I mean not beautiful but better in term of mimicking the look of old…