• Art,  Emotion,  Moment,  People,  Travel

    Natural and Available Light Portrait Photography | Why High ISO Matters

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Putra Mosque Putrajaya | ISO 2000 | f/5 | 1/100 | 24mm Does Hight ISO Matters? You may get a different answers from one photographer to another, depending on whom you ask, depending on their chosen photographic genre. If you ask landscape photographers, they usually don’t bother so much about it because most of the times, they will be shooting on tripod with long exposure, they will use the Lowest ISO possible to get the best result and having a camera with the ability to shoot at High ISO is not their concern. Same goes to fashion photographers who like to shoot in the studio…

  • Art,  eBook,  Editing,  Moment,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Photography and Photoshop Editing

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Putrajaya Botanical Garden © 2011 Wazari Wazir | (Left) RAW Unedited | (Right) Edited in Photoshop To be honest with you, I hate to write about this topic and I hate it when someone say that a photograph look great because if editing and they tend to forget the photography factor to get the shot, to get it right in the camera. I will write based on my personal experience. Whether you want to edit or not, it’s up o you, it’s your photograph, it’s your work and it’s your masterpiece, you can be purist and stick with a traditional photographic approach or embrace new…

  • Art,  Moment,  People,  Travel

    Action Photography | Slow Shutter Speed For Sense of Movement

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | Belly Dancer | Moroccan Pavilion Putrajaya Have you ever seen a whirling dervishes? It is one of the symbol of Turkey tourism. Sufi whirling (or Sufi spinning),  is a physically active meditation which originated among Sufis especially in Konya Turkey. If you have ever seen those “Whirling Dervishes” picture on the internet or in the magazine, most of the time you will see a a blurred kind of a picture, it is rare to see a whirling dervishes picture in a static movement, usually a photographer will use a slow shutter speed to captured that beautiful dancers in motion, captured their sense of movement gracefully. Actually when…

  • Assignment,  News,  Photojournalism

    The Photographers | Men in Black

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Prime Minister Office | Putrajaya © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Prime Minister Office | Putrajaya Men in Black, this is how we look like during coverage of The Official Visit of Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard to malaysia recently. We just finished sending our pictures to respective agency and while waiting for some of our friends who have not finish their editing, captioning and sending their pictures to their agency, we decided to have some fun. Most of the times we are too busy photographing other people but ourselves. We are not dress to impress but we are required to dress like this in order…

  • History,  News,  Photojournalism,  Politic,  Reportage Photography

    Photojournalism | Prime Minister Australia Official Visit to Malaysia

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Prime Minister Office | Putrajaya © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Prime Minister Office | Putrajaya © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Prime Minister Office | Putrajaya Another busy assignment for me and my friends at my department during Official Visit of The Honourable Julia Gillard, Prime Minister of Australia to Malaysia on 1st November 2010. Just few days ago we have official visit from Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India. It’s like back to back High Profile assignment. As usual whenever there is official visit from head of state or head of the government to Malaysia our our photography team from Information Department of Malaysia…