• Art,  Expression,  Family,  Life,  Moment,  Portrait

    Child Portraiture | Extreme Close-Up | Expressive Portraiture

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son | Extreme Close Up | Expressive Portraiture “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough” – Robert Capa – Extreme portrait shot of my son above were taken with my favorite 50mm lens shoot at ISO 200 at n aperture of f2, I just add the grain in Photoshop to make it look like film effect. I rarely shoot my son picture at Higher ISO, unless I don’t have much choice like in the book store for an example where the light is quite dim. This is a crop version from the actual photograph where full head and shoulder were in…

  • Art,  Expression,  Family,  Moment

    Photography Tips | Leading Lines | Having Fun at The Supermarket

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Having Fun at The Supermarket | Photography Tips | Leading Lines I’ve always imagine taking picture here in the supermarket whenever we go out shopping for our grocery but most of the times I did not dare to take a picture, there are a lot of people in the supermarket and furthermore most supermarket does not allow us to take a picture inside. But I just couldn’t resist looking at those leading lines, it really will make a powerful photograph and then again I want to captured my son having fun sitting at the supermarket trolley. The tricky part getting a picture here is that…

  • Art,  Face,  Family,  Light,  Moment,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Portrait Photography | Backlighting Photography Tips

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son | ISO 200 | 50mm | F2.0 | 1/640 | Spot Metering Talking about Backlighting in photography, some photographers either like it or hate it as simple as that. One of the reason why they hate it maybe because it is so hard to control the exposure especially if we are shooting with a Program Mode, because most of the time our subject will look dark. I like backlighting simply because I like the mood and the flare that it produce, and I want to keep  it that way. Most of the times a photograph will look imperfect when we are…

  • Adventure,  Art,  eBook,  Life,  Portraiture,  Travel

    Captivating Color | A Guide To Dramatic Color Photography by Mitchell Kanashkevich

    © 2011 Mitchell Kanashkevich | Captivating Color | A Guide to Dramatic Color Photography “Knowledgeable Use of Color is the Most Powerful Way to Grab the Viewer’s Attention.” – Mitchell Kanashkevich – Captivating Color is a new eBook from Mitchell Kanashkevich, an award winning travel photographer, I’ve been following his blog for quite sometimes and really inspired by his picture and not to mention his travel story especially when it involved portrait photography. He has made few eBook before this but I really like his latest eBook here which focus on color photography, how we can use it to our advantage. Understanding how colors can have an impact in our…