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Photography and Photoshop Editing | Color Tones
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | RAW (Left) and Phtoshop Color Tone Editing | Mesilau Sabah © 2010 Wazari Wazir | RAW (Left) and Photoshop Tone editing | Jodhpur | Rajasthan India Playing with Photoshop Color Tones is more of an option, rather than a necessity. What drives me to explore this color tone is because I like what I saw in deviantART website. I like how the photographers there express their photographic vision with colors and most of them did not use a default color that comes with their camera default setting, instead they tweaked their colors so that they come out with beautiful color tone, well, at least I…
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Photography and Artistic Vision
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | RAW File Unedited | Taj Mahal | Agra | India © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Edited With Photoshop Tone | Taj Mahal | Agra | India © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Monochromatic | Taj Mahal | Agra | India First and foremost if you call yourself as a “purist” in photography, then you should leave this post, there is no point wasting your time reading my musings and rant here, it is better for for you to take the camera and shoot something rather than wasting your time reading my blog here. On the other hand if you like editing, then please stay with me,…
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Basic Photography | Improve Your Photograph With The Right Cropping
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Expressive Portrait Photography | Improve Your Photograph With The Right Cropping In photography cropping is also the way how you compose your photograph but normally we use composition technique when it comes to picture taking process and we use crop when it comes to editing in Photoshop or in any photo editing software but basically they are more or less quite the same. During picture taking process you can crop the picture in the frame which we call “composition” meaning that you choose what should be in the frame and cut out unwanted part with careful composition. Cropping is also part of editing skills apart…
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Photography Composition Tips | Negative Space
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Take a Break With Ice Cream | 50mm | f/1.8 | 1/640 | ISO 200 Basically Negative space is the space within a photograph which is left unused. Negative space is a great way to help add emphasis to your main subject. Negative space usually is an empty space, it is not an important part of the photograph and usually we don’t focus on that area and most of the times we leave the empty space out of focus or blur but nevertheless if we use it wisely it can have a profound impact to the photograph. Actually there are three main component when it comes…
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Basic Photography | Composition and Storytelling
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Son Having Fun at Independence Square | Dataran Merdeka | Kuala Lumpur Photographers always associate composition as The Art of Seeing, Composition is a key element of good photographs. How you compose your picture will have an impact on how it will perceived by the viewers. There is so much you can show and there is so little that you can show depending on your intention. If you just wanted to show your subject (portrait) then maybe using fast lens with big aperture will throw away the background and make your subject stand out, make it the main focus in the photograph. On the other hand if…