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Portraiture | Simplify | Watch The Background
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer. ( Wikipedia ) When shooting portrait, I like to keep my background simple, less distraction so the viewers can concentrate on my subject without any distraction.…
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The Photographer | Be Yourself
If you were to ask me any good advice that I can give to my fellow photographers especially to those of you who just starting out with this hobby is this, just “be yourself”. I do believe that each of us are unique on their own. I believe everyone is different but sometime we try to be somebody else, we try to clone somebody else especially those who have succeed, especially those who are popular, those who have large followers but sometimes we are not being true to ourselves, we are not being honest with ourselves. There is nothing wrong if we adore certain people, there is nothing wrong if…
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Senior Photography | Rough Edge
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Portrait | Senior Photography I don’t want to talk about the picture here but I want to write about the editing, this is a combination of LAB Color editing plus The Photoshop Tone Editing that can be learned through my Photoshop Tone eBook. When it comes to boosting colors, I like to experiment with LAB color, sometimes it work and sometimes it doesn’t work. In this case I think it work perfectly in order to bring out the colors of the leather jacket and the yellow rough metal there, but I did Mask her face because LAB color doesn’t work well with her face. If…
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Flickr Front Page Explore | Calimero
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait | Calimero Flickr Front Page Explore, well what is so great about being featured there you may ask? Well, it depend, you don’t get paid if your pictured published there. It doesn’t mean that our picture is the best from the rest either, but it does feels good when our picture was on front page, everybody want to get notice, don’t you think so. This is not the first time my picture were published on the front page, quite few times actually (Flickr Front Page Explore Keeps On Changing Every Minutes). Personally I look it from a positive perspective, if my picture get…
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Portraiture | It’s Not About Eye Contact
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Portrait Photography A Perfect Photo That is Empty of Any Feeling Will Never Equal a Blurred Photo Full of Emotion ( Olivier Föllmi ) Portrait photography or portraiture is the capture by means of photography of the likeness of a person or a small group of people (a group portrait), in which the face and expression is predominant. The objective is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the subject. Like other types of portraiture, the focus of the photograph is the person’s face, although the entire body and the background may be included. A portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed…