• Art,  Black and White,  Expression,  Face,  Family,  Life,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Photography | The Elements of Style

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son | Black and White Some people might find it difficult to accept a portrait picture in a square format. When we talk about portrait, we imagine a picture of a person in a vertical format not a square format like what I like to do, like what I’m sharing it here. It’s not really my style because square format have been used long time ago made popular by Hasselblad camera with their classic 6×6 cm square film format. I don’t know why, but I simply love this type of square format. I rarely shoot film these days but I like the look…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Emotion,  Life,  Photojournalism,  Portrait,  Travel

    The Portrait Photographer | Personnel Connection

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | The Photographer in Action | Sungai Gabai | Selangor It was very easy for anyone to say that they too can take great portrait like National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry get if they were at the same place where Steve took the photographed. They think that they too can get a great Portrait of Afghan Girl just like what Steve captured if they were there too. Yes, it was easier to said than done, the truth is taking picture of a human is difficult. If you have read about the Sharbat Gula, the iconic Afghan girl that grace the National Geographic Magazine cover in June 1985…

  • Art,  Emotion,  Family,  Life,  Moment,  Photoshop

    Photography | Capturing The Moment is What Its All About

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Son HaiQal Peeking Through The Door Is there such a thing as beautiful photography without photoshop editing? Just plain skills, experiences and good lenses to capture the moment? That was a question I received from someone from my email. Actually it is, I mean you really don’t need to learn anything about Photoshop in order to become a photographer or to captured a beautiful photography. Great photography happens inside the camera, by the moment the image is captured by the film or the camera sensor. By right the moment happens in front of the lens but it was inside the camera that the moment…

  • Art,  Assignment,  Black and White,  Moment,  Photojournalism,  Photoshop,  Travel

    The Photographer and The Assignment During Kerdau State By-Elections

    © Shahrul | A Photograph of Me in Rubber Plantation at Teluk Sentang Kerdau, Pahang Taken By Shahrul Reading, this is what I like to do when I’ve nothing to do here at rubber plantation in Teluk Sentang, a small village in Kerdau on the outskirts of Temerloh Pahang. Actually I was waiting for my friend to finish his assignment, just a small assignment for our department at one of the house just across the street from where I was sitting there reading a book. You might say that, how come I’ve a free time to read when I should be busy photographing the Kerdau by-elections. The truth to be…

  • Art,  Editing,  Emotion,  Family,  Moment,  Photoshop,  Portraiture

    Child Photography | It Can Be Tough Sometimes

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Child Photography | HaiQal With Book Actually this is not the Photograph that I have in mind, my idea is to to photograph my son holding the book and show it to me. Bu he seems to be more interested with the chocolate than the book, maybe because that book is not for him, does not interest him at all because there is not many pictures in it, just words and more words. I just bough that book from Kinokuniya Bookstore in Kuala Lumpur. The title of the book is Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson. If I get the shot that I want,…