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Joy of Childhood | Time to Play
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | A Time to Play “You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762 – Tweet news and informationbusiness,health,entertainment,technology automotive,business,crime,health,life,politics,science,technology,travel
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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…
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The Photographer’s Life | My Life
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | My Wife and My Son | Kuala Lumpur City Centre There is a reason why I don’t do part time photography like some others working photographers do. Photography is my career, I’m a full time working photographer for the Government of Malaysia. Most of my assignment involved official government functions and sometimes it happens during weekends like New Year or even during Eid ul-Fitr where most people celebrate the big days with their family. Unlike other government servant, as a photographer we don’t work only during normal office hour, sometimes we work until midnight like my latest assignment covering Kerdau state by-elections where we work…
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Portrait Photography | Child Photography Tips
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son | Tasik Perdana | Kuala Lumpur The truth to be told is that, child photography will never be easy, at least for me. I can only talk about my experience taking picture of my son because I don’t do child photography business. I think the most important thing that we must have if we want to photographed a child (I’m talking about our own children) is patient, lots of it. I’ve been photographing my son for almost four years already, I’ve been taking picture of him just few minutes after he was born and never get tired of it. It never…
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Portrait Photography Tips | The Props
© 2008 Wazari Wazir | Senior Portrait Photography | Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia We have to admit that posing does not comes naturally for most of us. As a photographers sometimes we find it hard for us to direct a model or a person how to pose in front of the camera, unless we are photographing a professional model with years of experience in modelling. Among the most difficult part to pose is the position of the hand. It may look among the smallest part on the human body but most of the times the hand position can make or break a good portrait shot. Sometimes we have no idea…