• Art,  Family,  Life,  Moment,  People,  Portrait,  Travel

    Basic Photography | Composition | Simplicity

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Son | Paddy Field | Sekinchan Selangor “As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.” – Sam Abell ( National Geographic  Photographer ) – This photograph may look too simple , just a picture of my wife holding my son on his arm, if I tell you that the background is a wall with giant paddy field picture on it, you might believe it because it was too simple, the background is too plain. The truth…

  • Art,  Family,  Light,  Moment

    Basic Photography | When and Why Do You Need Fast Lens?

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Son at Kinokuniya Book Store | 50mm | f/1.8 | 1/125 | ISO 1000 Before we talk about when and why do you need a fast lens, lets get to know what is fast lens for those of you who doesn’t know about it. Basically “Fast Lens” refer to the lens that have big aperture at its maximum aperture. Usually any lens that have its maximum aperture which start at f/2.8 and below is consider a fast lens. The reason that a lens with a big maximum aperture is referred to as fast is that it lets more light in and therefore you can use…

  • Art,  Emotion,  Family,  Moment

    Happy Birthday My Son | HaiQal Four Year Old

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Happy Birthday My Son | 50mm | ISO 1250 | f/2 | 1/40 Time flies when we enjoy the most. My son HaiQal is four year old today 22nd August 2011. Since we are in the middle of Ramadan, fasting month for muslim, we don’t make any birthday party for him. I just bought him a small birthday cake and light a candle and just let my son have all the fun. I don’t really celebrate birthday party actually, maybe because I’ve never celebrate it all my life. The reason we bought the cake is just to make him happy, to let him having fun…

  • Life,  Malaysia,  Photojournalism,  Portrait

    Thank You Josh | Thank You Pos Malaysia

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | HaiQal Big Picture on Pos Malaysia Jinjang Wall I just received an email from Mr Josh who work for with the agency in New Zealand that consulted on the POS Malaysia retail design project. I’ve already post this picture on my previous blog post in April but I just wanted to share it with you again and this time with an email that I received from the man who responsible to make this happen. I’m not trying to brag here with my success but most importantly to inspire photographers out there, especially those of you who came to my blog frequently to believe in yourself, to…

  • Art,  Expression,  Moment

    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,…