• Art,  Black and White,  Editing,  Expression,  Family,  Moment,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Children Photography | The Essence of Childhood

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | The Essence of Childhood | My Son Playing With His favorite Toys “If You Carry Your Childhood With You, You Never Become Older.” ( Tom Stoppard ) My son just woke up actually and as usual he will be looking for his toys and start playing around. He have nothing much to worry but just to play all day long. He is quite  lucky because we as a parent can afford to buy him a simple toy, unlike during my childhood days where we came from not so rich family, my father rarely bought me a new toys, in fact I can hardly remember if…

  • Art,  eBook,  Editing,  Photoshop,  Workshops Photoshop

    Adobe Photoshop Editing | The Magic of Colors

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | The Magic of Colors | New eBook on Photoshop Editing I’ve almost finished with my third eBook, unlike my previous eBook, this one will focus more on Colors enhancement, it is not about Tones. It will maintain the original color but the difference is we will push the colors a bit further, making it more vibrance, vivid and rich. There are many ways to boost a color in Photoshop, some way are better that the other but I will share my technique here after years of experience playing with Photoshop, I know which work for me and which one bring me a great result compared…

  • Art,  Expression,  Family,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Portrait Photography | The Art of Backlighting

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son | ISO 200 | F2 | 1/1250 What is Backlighting?  As the name suggest, Backlighting refers to lighting in a photograph that comes from behind an object or a person. The lighting can be from many source, it can be a natural light or artificial light as long as the main source of the light coming from behind the subject, it is called a backlighting. Most of the times backlighting comes from ambient light around the subject of the photograph. If you look at the picture of my son above, the lighting coming from the early morning sunrise which is  from the right…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Family,  Moment,  Photojournalism,  Portrait

    Telling Stories With a Photograph | A Conversation With Mother

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | A Conversation With Mother at Kinokuniya Bookstore I personally think that the basis of a photography is to tell a story with a photograph, that’s why they called it a Photograph Worth a Thousand Words. A photograph is a visual language where most of the times people don’t need any explanation about the picture if it can tells a story on it’s own. Some photograph can be like an abstract where people don’t know head and tails about it until they read a caption about it while others is just pure and simple where people can easily understood about the story of the picture. I…