• Art,  Black and White,  Editing,  Expression,  Family,  Moment,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Children Photography | The Essence of Childhood

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | The Essence of Childhood | My Son Playing With His favorite Toys “If You Carry Your Childhood With You, You Never Become Older.” ( Tom Stoppard ) My son just woke up actually and as usual he will be looking for his toys and start playing around. He have nothing much to worry but just to play all day long. He is quite  lucky because we as a parent can afford to buy him a simple toy, unlike during my childhood days where we came from not so rich family, my father rarely bought me a new toys, in fact I can hardly remember if…

  • Art,  Expression,  Family,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Portrait Photography | The Art of Backlighting

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son | ISO 200 | F2 | 1/1250 What is Backlighting?  As the name suggest, Backlighting refers to lighting in a photograph that comes from behind an object or a person. The lighting can be from many source, it can be a natural light or artificial light as long as the main source of the light coming from behind the subject, it is called a backlighting. Most of the times backlighting comes from ambient light around the subject of the photograph. If you look at the picture of my son above, the lighting coming from the early morning sunrise which is  from the right…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Family,  Moment,  Photojournalism,  Portrait

    Telling Stories With a Photograph | A Conversation With Mother

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | A Conversation With Mother at Kinokuniya Bookstore I personally think that the basis of a photography is to tell a story with a photograph, that’s why they called it a Photograph Worth a Thousand Words. A photograph is a visual language where most of the times people don’t need any explanation about the picture if it can tells a story on it’s own. Some photograph can be like an abstract where people don’t know head and tails about it until they read a caption about it while others is just pure and simple where people can easily understood about the story of the picture. I…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Expression,  Family,  Life,  Moment,  Portrait

    Portrait Photography | A Moment of Silence

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son | A Moment f Silence It may look like my son were sitting there forever in that position but the truth is, it is the only shot that I got before in less than  thirty seconds my son runs away. I was so lucky to get this one single shot even though he doesn’t look at the camera but it doesn’t matter because I like the moment of silence that my son portray here when in fact the moment before he was so busy running here and there. I’ve learn from my experience taking picture of my son that, we should…