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Basic Photography | Point of View in Photography
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | HaiQal | Untitled Expression Basically POV or Point of View refer to the position from which the camera take the photograph. Are you taking the picture from above, looking down on the subject or are you taking the picture from lower angle, looking up at the subject and how close or how far between you and the subject. Normally most photographers took picture from their eye level, it is natural to do so, all we have to do is just raise the camera to our eyes and start composing the shot but sometimes this normal point of view tend to create a mundane or boring…
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Basic Photography | Creative Use of Depth of Field
© 2008 Wazari Wazir | Little Fingers | Using Depth of Field Creatively Depth of field (DOF) by definition is the amount of your image that’s in focus or in another words is the distance in front and beyond the object that is in focus or sharp. There is a long discussing about depth of field on the internet, most of the discussion is more towards technical aspect of it rather than how you can use creative depth of field to your advantage. To make it easy for you, there are three things that will affect the depth of field, those thing are the size of Aperture that you use,…
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Children Photography | A Moment to Remember
© 2008 Wazari Wazir | A Moment To Remember | Mother and Son “There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained” – Winston Churchill – This is not the latest picture of my second child Raphael, it is my first son HaiQal, in case you miss the caption up there, it was taken in 2008 when he is one year old. It was truly a moment to be remembered. For those of you who have been following my blog or my flickr, will notice…
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Basic Photography | The Art of Composition
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Paddy Field | Sungai Besar Selangor Photography is a highly subjective matter, especially when we talk about the artistic aspect of photography. Just like painting, some people can understand and appreciate abstract or modern art while others can only appreciate simple art or straight forward art where they can clearly see the subjective matter, whether it is a portrait or landscape where abstract art is a little bit complicated to be understand for most people on the street including me. Personally for me, when it comes to composition, it is also a subjective matter, yes we all know about rule of third, golden rules and…
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Basic Photography | Tips & Technique | How To Get Sharp Images With 50mm Lens
50mm Lens can be considered as the most popular portrait lens, I think most people have one in their camera bag. The reason is simple, 50mm lens is the most affordable lens with good quality glass. The most popular one is 50mm f/1.8, whether you are Nikon or Canon owner, this is the most affordable one and a little bit expensive one is 50mm f/1.4 or Canon f/1.2 ( Expensive ), at the moment of writing Nikon does not produce new 50mm f/1.2 manual lens, they only have 50mm f/1.2 manual lens, maybe they will have it in the future. Another reason why 50mm is the most favorite lens is…