• Art,  Emotion,  Expression,  Face,  Malaysia,  Moment,  Portrait,  Portraiture

    Camera is Just a Tool

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait of My Son Nikon or Canon? Nikon or Canon? What am I talking here, what my son picture above got to do with Nikon or Canon, nothing actually, nothing really. Actually there is something, without a camera I would not be able to capture this image and share it with you here. It doesn’t really matter whether I use Nikon or Canon, can you tell it by looking at the picture above without  going through my flickr page and searching for the EXIF File, you wouldn’t know which camera I use to get this picture. What am I trying to say here, what…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Care,  Emotion,  Expression,  Face,  Family,  Light,  Love,  Malaysia,  Moment,  People,  Photoshop,  Portrait,  Portraiture

    How To Get a Solid Black Background

    How to get a solid black background, I get a lot of question about this especially from someone who just start taking out photography, well I’ve the answer, just wait for my next eBook, I’ll tell you the secret. I’m just kidding, there is no how to actually but just a common sense. I’m not going to sell anything here but wanted to share my technique about how to get a solid black background like the picture of my son above. Interested? Then read on. I will go straight to the point here. First thing first, I did not take this shot in the studio, in fact I’ve never take…

  • Art,  Emotion,  Expression,  Face,  Family,  Love,  Malaysia,  Melayu,  Moment,  Photoshop,  Portrait,  Portraiture

    Which Lens To Buy?

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait First things first, If you are a millionaire photographer, please skip this article, don’t waste your time here deciding which lens to buy, since you have a lot of money to spend but if you are just regular photographer like me which must make a hard decision to save our hard earn money then read on. Here I will discuss just about two favorite portrait lens, 50mm and 85mm lens. For this shot I use Nikkor 50mm f1.4 lens, much cheaper than legendary Nikkor 85mm f1.4 lens. Here I will discuss about this two lens, 85mm and 50mm and why I choose 50mm…

  • Art,  Emotion,  Expression,  Face,  Melayu,  Moment,  People,  Portrait,  Portraiture,  Portraiture Workshops

    A Child Mind

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait of My Son “We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today”. ( Stacia Tauscher ) My Son HaiQal is getting harder to photograph these days, he got his own mind already, in fact it was too difficult to get him out of the house because he know that I will be taking his picture, instead he like to be in the house watching cartoon on the television. Lately he like to watch Mickey Mouse cartoon, keep on repeating playing that cartoon, he is the Boss in the house, I wish I have another television…

  • Art,  Emotion,  Expression,  Face,  Malaysia,  Moment,  People,  Portrait,  Portraiture

    The Artistic Touch

    I’m in the process of making my second Photoshop eBook, my eBook will show you how to play with Texture, my first eBook is about Photoshop Tone, how to get vintage or old school kind of effect, so this time I will share my texture technique, how do I apply texture from scratch. A lot of people can get texture for free but most of them have very little idea how to apply them and blend it well with the picture. I’ve been playing around with the texture for more than two years already and I’ve learn a lot from trial and error. In my eBook I’ll try my level…