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Basic Photography | The Environmental Portrait
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Son Playing at the Beach | Teluk Kemang | 24mm | ISO 100 | f/4 | 1/400 Basically there are two types of people or portrait photography. Portrait and environmental portrait. When we talk about portrait photography, usually it was a close up picture of the person being photograph, basically head and shoulder, and leaving the background out of focus and our eyes are drawn to the subject face only. With this kind of portrait, you don’t know who they are, what they are doing for a living and you don’t have any idea where the picture is taken if all you can see…
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Basic Photography Composition | Framing Your Shots
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Frame Within The Frame | Istana Alam Shah | Klang Selangor In photography framing is the technique to bring focus to the subject, by properly framing our subject, it helps to draw viewers eyes to the subject. Anything can be use as a frame as long as it help to focus or direct the viewers eyes to the main subject. Here in this photograph I use the platform or the stage and the yellow decoration clothes up there to frame my main subject, actually my “real main subject” here is The King of Malaysia, but the King has not arrive just yet, so in this…
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A Printed Memory | Have You Print Your Photographs Lately?
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | A Printed Memory | Have You Print Your Photographs Lately Back in the old film days we used to print our picture whenever we finished shooting a roll of film, straight away we will head for the nearest photo lab in town to get our roll of film develop and get the negatives printed. It was a joy back then to see our pictures in prints. These days people who own a digital camera rarely got their personal pictures printed, yes they did prints for their customers but hardly for themselves. Most of the people especially my close friends that I knew are more than…
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Basic Photography | Capturing Blue Hour Photography
© Wazari Wazir | Petronas Twin Tower at Kuala Lumpur City Centre ( KLCC ) | Blue Hour Photography According to Wikipedia The Blue Hour comes from the French expression “l’heure bleue,” which refers to the period of twilight each morning and evening where there is neither full daylight nor complete darkness. The time is considered special because of the quality of the light at this time of day. The time just before sunrise or after sunset. Among the most favorite subject for Blue Hour photography is landscape, building or cityscapes. I’m not an expert on this subject because I rarely shoot landscape, building or cityscape but nevertheless I do know that the best time to…
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Basic Photography | When and Why Do You Need Fast Lens?
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Son at Kinokuniya Book Store | 50mm | f/1.8 | 1/125 | ISO 1000 Before we talk about when and why do you need a fast lens, lets get to know what is fast lens for those of you who doesn’t know about it. Basically “Fast Lens” refer to the lens that have big aperture at its maximum aperture. Usually any lens that have its maximum aperture which start at f/2.8 and below is consider a fast lens. The reason that a lens with a big maximum aperture is referred to as fast is that it lets more light in and therefore you can use…