• Art,  Black and White,  Emotion,  Expression,  Face,  Portrait

    Portrait Photography | Look Away

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | HaiQal | A Portrait of My Son In my previous article I wrote that whenever we took a portrait of a person, we must focus on his or her eyes no matter whether they look into the lens or not. In this picture the eyes appear to be a little bit soft, a little bit out of focus and if you can see clearly the focus was on the strand of hair on my son cheek. I did use fast shutter speed here and I did focus on his eyes but when I was about to press the shutter button, my son turn away and…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Emotion,  Expression,  Face,  Family,  Life,  Photoshop,  Politic

    Portrait Photography | Focus On The Eyes

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | HaiQal | Portrait Photography | Focus On The Eyes People often said that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Nothing further from the truth actually. Whenever people make contact or whenever we look at someone portrait or photograph, it is the eyes that we will look for before we moving at some other part of the body so the eyes is very important and is is very important also to get the eyes sharp whenever we photograph someone. To those of you who just start taking photography as a hobby and just bought a new DSLR and are interested in portraiture photography, always keep in…

  • Art,  Life,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Photoshop Texture | How To Play With Texture in Photoshop

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | Photoshop Texture © 2009 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son | Photoshop Texture The truth to be told is that, playing with texture is all about “blending”. How you blend your picture with texture in Photoshop, “Multiply”, “Soft Light”, “Overlay” stuff like that. It looks easy but it isn’t if we want to get a beautiful well blend texture effect. First and foremost to those of you who don’t know or didn’t understand what is “Texture” all about, “Texture” is an image in itself, “Texture” is a piece of a picture of texture. You can found texture on woods, you can found it on…

  • Art,  Culture,  Life,  Photoshop,  Travel

    Travel Photography | Pulau Ketam | Crab Island

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | Travel Photography | Pulau Ketam | Crab Island © 2009 Wazari Wazir | Travel Photography | Pulau Ketam | Crab Island Pulau Ketam, literally translated, means “Crab Island”, “Ketam” is a Malay word for “Crab”. It is a small island located off the coast of Klang. The island is easily accessible from the Port Klang jetty by ferry. This is a traditional fishing village where visitors can witness and experience the unique lifestyle of fishermen. I think the easiest way to come here from Kuala Lumpur is by taking a train or KTM Komuter where you can take the Komuter from Kuala Lumpur Sentral Station…