• Art,  Editing,  Family,  Moment,  Photoshop

    Photography | Selective Focus

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Son Playing With Danbo | Selective Focus “Selective focus” means the use of a shallow  depth  of  field  to  isolate  or  emphasize  the  subject in the photograph. Most of the times we only want certain part in the photograph to be in focus. In photography, we use a large aperture to isolate the subject from the background, by using a large aperture like f2.8. That is why photographers love to have a fast lens in their possession. It is a valuable tools that will help them separate their main subject from the background. One thing that should be always on our mind when using…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Emotion,  Family,  Life,  Love,  Moment

    The Photographer’s Life | My Life

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | My Wife and My Son | Kuala Lumpur City Centre There is a reason why I don’t do part time photography like some others working photographers do. Photography is my career, I’m a full time working photographer for the Government of Malaysia. Most of my assignment involved official government functions and sometimes it happens during weekends like New Year or even during Eid ul-Fitr where most people celebrate the big days with their family. Unlike other government servant, as a photographer we don’t work only during normal office hour, sometimes we work until midnight like my latest assignment covering Kerdau state by-elections where we work…

  • Art,  Emotion,  Family,  Life,  Moment,  Photoshop

    Photography | Capturing The Moment is What Its All About

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Son HaiQal Peeking Through The Door Is there such a thing as beautiful photography without photoshop editing? Just plain skills, experiences and good lenses to capture the moment? That was a question I received from someone from my email. Actually it is, I mean you really don’t need to learn anything about Photoshop in order to become a photographer or to captured a beautiful photography. Great photography happens inside the camera, by the moment the image is captured by the film or the camera sensor. By right the moment happens in front of the lens but it was inside the camera that the moment…

  • Art,  Assignment,  Black and White,  Moment,  Photojournalism,  Photoshop,  Travel

    The Photographer and The Assignment During Kerdau State By-Elections

    © Shahrul | A Photograph of Me in Rubber Plantation at Teluk Sentang Kerdau, Pahang Taken By Shahrul Reading, this is what I like to do when I’ve nothing to do here at rubber plantation in Teluk Sentang, a small village in Kerdau on the outskirts of Temerloh Pahang. Actually I was waiting for my friend to finish his assignment, just a small assignment for our department at one of the house just across the street from where I was sitting there reading a book. You might say that, how come I’ve a free time to read when I should be busy photographing the Kerdau by-elections. The truth to be…

  • Art,  Editing,  Emotion,  Family,  Moment,  Photoshop,  Portraiture

    Child Photography | It Can Be Tough Sometimes

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Child Photography | HaiQal With Book Actually this is not the Photograph that I have in mind, my idea is to to photograph my son holding the book and show it to me. Bu he seems to be more interested with the chocolate than the book, maybe because that book is not for him, does not interest him at all because there is not many pictures in it, just words and more words. I just bough that book from Kinokuniya Bookstore in Kuala Lumpur. The title of the book is Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson. If I get the shot that I want,…