• Adventure,  Assignment,  Malaysia,  Moment,  Photojournalism,  Photoshop,  Portrait,  Portraiture,  Tourism,  Travel

    Built Rapport With The People You Photograph

    I’ve the opportunity attending Public Talk by Steve McCurry at Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia Kuala Lumpur in conjunction with his latest exhibition title A Common Faith: Steve McCurry’s Travels through the Muslim World on 7th January 2010. Steve McCurry is very famous with his Afghan girl portrait but I’m not going to talk about that picture. What I’m interested is how Steve approach his subject or in this case, people he photograph. Steve tells us that we must respect the person we photograph, they are not a “Subject”, they are just a person, normal human being like the rest of us and deserved to be treat as one. Don’t just…

  • Art,  Culture,  Light,  Malaysia,  Moment,  Photojournalism,  Photoshop,  Portrait,  Portraiture,  Tourism,  Travel

    The Photographer

    “There is only you and your camera, the limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are”. ( Ernst Hass ) Someday soon someone will ask: “Why did you become a photographer?” And you will answer : “I became a photographer because it involve me in the entire world around me. “I became a photographer because it provided me with food for my soul and bread for my table. “I became a photographer because it enable me  to observe the human condition and to record the parade of human events…” ( New York Institute of Photography ) Get The Secret HERE Tweet news and…

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    Mabul | Hope

    Mabul…, where do I begin, where do I start, as usual I really have a hard times putting thought into words, I admit it that I’ve a lot to tell, a lot to share, this trip to Mabul Island, a small island off the south-east coast of Sabah in 2008 is personal trip, I mean it’s not related with my job, not an assignment, not really an outing but more like traveling with a small group of friends just wanted to have some fun out from concrete jungle. Not everybody in my group is a photographers, some of them  just wanted to come here to Mabul for diving or snorkeling.…

  • Art,  Emotion,  Expression,  Face,  Life,  Malaysia,  People,  Photoshop,  Portrait,  Portraiture,  Portraiture Workshops

    Expression | The UnTitled

    I’ve been very busy lately, I’m sorry to keep my Blog idle, just came back from Kota Kinabalu, actually I just have two days in Kuala Lumpur after return from My Photoshop Workshops in Kota Kinabalu on Monday 3rd of August before flying back to Kota Kinabalu again on Thursday  6th for another Photoshop Course organize by my department, it was a compulsory course for the staff in order to expand their knowledge about image editing. About the photo about, it got nothing to do with my new knowledge that I get from “The Government Compulsory Basic Photoshop Course”. I do the editing as usual, with my own style. What…

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    Portraiture Workshops | Kota Kinabalu

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | Spylens Studio Photography and Photoshop Workshops | Kota Kinabalu Sabah This is my first Portraiture Photoshop Workshops in Kota Kinabalu Sabah, a million thanks to my friend Roslee Karim for organizing this workshops under his company Spylens Studio. I was at Kota Kinabalu two days before the workshops just to make sure everything was in working order, making final preparation in Spylens Studio where the editing class will take place. This is also the first time my photoshop editing class taking place in the studio, previous workshops was in the hotel seminar room and not to mention my “Mini Workshops” taking place in “Coffee Shop”…