• Expression,  Family,  Life,  Love,  Moment,  Portrait

    Portrait Photography | The Joy of Childhood

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | FRIM | Forest Research Institute Malaysia Just a short outing with my family at FRIM Forest Research Institute Malaysia in Kepong, just about half an hour from Kuala Lumpur. Actually I was invited by friend of mine Mdnoh Jalaludin for a Model photo shoot, he did bring three beautiful looking models for the outing but I did not take a lot of photographs of the models because I was busy with my family especially with my son. I did join the group of photographers there for a small photography talk. I was in a hurry actually because I have an assignment in Malacca, just two…

  • History,  News,  Photojournalism,  Politic,  Reportage Photography

    Photojournalism | Prime Minister Australia Official Visit to Malaysia

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Prime Minister Office | Putrajaya © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Prime Minister Office | Putrajaya © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Prime Minister Office | Putrajaya Another busy assignment for me and my friends at my department during Official Visit of The Honourable Julia Gillard, Prime Minister of Australia to Malaysia on 1st November 2010. Just few days ago we have official visit from Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India. It’s like back to back High Profile assignment. As usual whenever there is official visit from head of state or head of the government to Malaysia our our photography team from Information Department of Malaysia…

  • Art,  eBook,  Editing,  Photoshop

    Photoshop | How To Make Your Own Photoshop Preset

    The truth to be told is I rarely use Photoshop Preset, simply because most of my pictures need a different treatment, need a different adjustment, but for those of you who have purchase my Photoshop Tone eBook and wanted to know how to “Save” those adjustment especially “Tone Curves Adjustment”, so every time you wanted to get that same color tone, you don’t have to manually adjusting them, instead you just choose from custom preset and hit the button and you’re done. In this tutorial, I will share how to make your own Curves Preset in Photoshop. I’m not going to tell you how to make a beautiful Tone Curves…

  • Art,  Emotion,  Expression,  Photoshop,  Portrait,  Portraiture

    Portrait Photography | How To Get Muted Colors

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Portrait | Muted Colors Some people like to call it muted colors, some people like to call it less color, fade color. Anyway basically it is about less colors, less saturate, subtle colors. Soft or pale color without too much contrast. Whatever you like to called it, it is about less color, almost monochromatic but yet still maintain some colors. So how do we get that color. How to achieve this kind of colors? Actually there are many ways to achieve this kind of look, I’ve try few ways in Photoshop to get this kind of effect. You can do it by reducing the saturation…

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

    Senior Portrait Photography | Black and White

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Senior Portrait Photography It’s been awhile that I shoot any pretty face lately, thanks to my friend Ishak Hamzah for inviting me for this photo shoot, we shoot in the late afternoon and the weather wasn’t very good, it rains and we have to cut our photo shoot less than an hour after its start. Most of the times I join photo shoot like this is because I want to meet some friends, face to face, rather than busy with facebook and all other social media. It’s good to be able to meet your facebook friends in real life, sharing and exchanging ideas, just like…