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Photographing Children Is Never Easy
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | My Children | Photographing Them Was Never Easy It may look like they are well behaved but the truth is it is never easy for me to photograph them, I’ve had to do all kind of funny and stupid things to get their attention but even though I did get their attention, it is hard for me to get the reaction that I want. You can see HaiQal the big brother is not looking so happy, maybe after all this years becoming the attention of my lens he gets bored. Actually the best place to get our children picture is to let them play on…
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Natural Light Portrait | Light And Shadows
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Daughter | Natural Light Photography | Arianna You don’t really need an expensive studio lighting to get a great portrait. Yes studio lighting has its place but if you are casual photographer, just wanted to take a photograph of your own family, then I think you better learn on how to make full use of natural light. People often asked me, whether I’ve a studio inside my house, while kind of lighting equipment that I use to get a great portrait, whether I’ve used any diffuser or not. The truth is, I don’t have any of it, most of the photographs of…
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A Portrait of My Children | Black and White Portraiture
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait of Seven Year Old HaiQal © 2014 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait of Three Year Old Raphael © 2014 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait of One Year Old Arianna Wearing Russian Ushanka It’s been quite awhile since I posted a black and white portraiture of my children. Lately I like colour photography more than black and white, maybe I want to remember the colours of their clothing and the colours of their environment. Famous Canadian photographer Ted Grant once said that “When you photograph people in colour, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls!”. I…
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Photography Tips | Children Close Up Portraiture
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Close Up Portraiture of My Daughter Arianna “I always felt like the close-up portrait was the most essential, the most valid picture out there, it was just all about the person, not about their clothes, not about the environment, not about their background, not giving any hints to their social status.” – Martin Schoeller – Lately I like to do some kind of environmental portraiture shot for my family picture, I like to have some kind of background story about whereabout my subject, the places they have been to, for an instance, but in doing so, the portrait, I mean the face of the person in…
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Photography Tips | Dealing With Low Light People Photography
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Buddhist Monk Light a Candles at Boudhanath Stupa | Kathmandu Nepal There are different type of situation when it comes to low light photography conditions. It can be landscape, architecture or simple people photography. The point is that, you are dealing with low light, very minimal light. Depending on the situation, our approach will differ, if you are shooting landscape or indoor architecture using only available light, using a tripod is a great help, so you can use Low ISO like ISO 100 or 200 and get all the details without increasing the ISO. But in this post I’m going to talk about photographing people…
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