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Basic Photography Tips | Creative Use of Depth of Field
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Creative Use of Depth of Field | Motherhood | f1.8 | 1/640 | 50mm Lens Basically Depth of field (DOF) is the amount of your image that’s in focus. It is also refers to the range of distance that appears acceptably sharp. It varies depending on lens type, aperture and focusing distance. Depth of field (DOF) also is the distance in front and beyond the object that is in focus. Generally speaking also, if we want to get a greater Depth of Field, which is to have sharp image from foreground to background, you need to use smaller aperture like f8 and above to get everything sharp or…
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Children Photography | Keep it Simple
© 2008 Wazari Wazir | Children Photography | Joy of Happiness | My Son HaiQal If you are a regular visitor to Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia or now known as UKM Medical Centre (UKMMC) since February 2008, especially to those of you who has used the “Surau” (a small room for muslim to pray) at level one will surely noticed this picture of my son hanging on the wall there, it being used as one of HUKM health education poster there. The photograph were taken at Taman Tasik Permaisuri, a large public park just a few minutes walkaway from the Hospital. If you look at the picture with the eagle eyes,…
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Photography | Photo Editing and Photoshop Plug-Ins
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | Photoshop Texture Editing © 2009 Wazari Wazir | Artistic Photoshop Editing I just wanted to write a little bit about Photography and image editing software. At the moment I don’t use any Photoshop Plug-Ins, Action or Preset. All my editing were done from scratch in Photoshop. My editing sometimes can take hours just to complete one single artwork like a portrait of my son above with texture added. Maybe to some people they think I’m wasting my time but the truth is I’ve a lot of time to play around and I don’t need to rush because there were no client waiting for me to…
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Children Photography | Expressive Portraiture
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Expressive Portraiture | My Son HaiQal My life becoming busier than ever since we have a new addition to our family which is our newborn son Raphael, it is among the greatest things that happen to our family since HaiQal our first son was born but the problem is I don’t really have much free times these days, but I will try my best to share few of my thought here in my blog. I’ve quite a few of my blog post entitled with the same title like this one “Expressive Portraiture”. I’m not really in favor with cheeky, smiling looking face, I like to…
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Newborn Photography | Capturing The Decisive Moment
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Newborn Photography | My Wife and My Son Raphael | Decisive Moment “To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson – The photograph above will be quite ordinary if my son Raphael just sleeping in the comfort of my wife arm. What makes this picture memorable or special is when my son open up his little mouth “yawn” and I took the picture and freeze it forever. That is a decisive moment, a peak moment…