• Art,  Expression,  Face,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Advanced Photoshop Tips | Adding Texture To A Photograph

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait With Texture Basically adding texture to a photograph is not really a difficult process, all you have to do is find a texture that you like and then choose a photograph that you want to add a texture into it and just blend it together in Photoshop, you can choose Overlay, Screen or Soft Light blending option under layer palette and you are done, it is that simple. Sound that easy right? Same like taking picture, anybody who have a camera, be it iPhone camera, compact or DSLR can take picture, even a toddler can press a shutter button and take picture, the…

  • Art,  Black and White,  eBook,  Editing,  Emotion,  Family,  Moment,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Children Portrait Photography | Black and White Photography

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Children Portrait Photography I’ve always enjoy doing black and white photography, sometimes I like to get super deep rich black and sometimes I just like a lighter version of it, a little bit softer black and white or some people might called it as a shade of grey. Some people have asked me, what make good black and white picture, for me it is not an easy answer. It is personal and base on individual preference, we can choose whether we like super deep rich black and white or just a shade of grey. I think there are two type of a people who view…

  • Art,  Editing,  Emotion,  People,  Portrait

    Basic Photography | Creative Photography by Using Slow Shutter Speed

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | Pulau Ketam | ISO 100 | Aperture f/10 | 1/20 Sometimes we need to think outside of the box to get a creative photograph, I was shooting this young lady with a group of a photographers at Pulau Ketam or Crab Island in Selangor, I just wanted to get a different shot, I don’t want standard static boring shot, I want to add some drama to my picture, so I decided to ask her to spin the umbrella, since the umbrella is colorful, I think it will look great if it was spinning. The problem is that, we are in a very bright area, very…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Editing,  Expression,  Hitam Putih,  Photoshop,  Portraiture

    Fine Art Portraiture | Black and White and Texture Photography

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Fine Art Portrait Photography | A Portrait of My Son “Photography is a craft. Anyone can learn a craft with normal intelligence and application. To take it beyond the craft is something else. That’s when magic comes in. And I don’t know that there’s any explanation for that.” – Elliot Erwitt – It’s been a hectic week for me from last Friday during my Photography and Photoshop Workshops with Spylens Studio held in Kota Kinbalu Sabah. I really need along break but still I like to play around with editing, something that I really like to do whenever I’ve a lot of free time which…

  • Art,  Expression,  Face,  Malaysia,  People,  Photoshop,  Portraiture,  Portraiture Workshops,  Workshops Photoshop

    Portrait Photography | Senior Portraiture | Close Up

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Senior Muslimah Portraiture This photograph were taken during Spylens Studio photography workshop held in Lok Kawi outskirts of Kota Kianablu Sabah. It was taken purely with just natural light, without reflector. I’m not doing any senior photography business but if I’ve free times and if I get an invitation from my photography friends, I will join them for fun. I like to get a close up shot of the person I’m photographing, just like a portrait of My son, I like to get really close and I’m not interested to get cheeky smiling face on my photograph. I like my subject to relax, maybe a…