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Photography Tips | How To Photograph Reflections In Water
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | An Abandon Debris of an Old Airplane at Bario Sarawak There are many tips on how to photograph reflections in water. The best time of the day, depending on location maybe during early morning or during late afternoon and if you choose to photograph a reflection at the lake where it was quite busy with the people like at Phewa Lake in Nepal is during early morning when the lake was calm (because less people paddling a boat on the lake, less ripples) , so there were no ripples in the water and you will get picture perfect postcard of Annapurna Range. It’s like a giant…
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Travel Photography Tips | Finding The Best Composition
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Buffalo at Bario | Sarawak Sometimes what separate good photograph from the bad one is the composition. From the main road, what will catch your eyes is the last photograph, there were a woodshed behind the buffalo, that background is not a good background. Too cluttered to make the buffalo standout, I almost never took the shot but I just took it, so I can make a comparison to my blog readers. On the right side of the woodshed is a beautiful background, if I choose the right composition, I can make the buffalo to stand out against the beautiful background covered by thick mist.…
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Travel Photography | A Blanket of Mist | Bario Sarawak
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | A Blanket of Mist at Bario Sarawak “And I walked for hours, imagining the mist growing thick and swallowing me whole. The thought of disappearing like that, so simply, made me so happy.” – Jay Asher – This photograph is a grabbed shot, or should I say just a snapshot, I really did not plan it, if I know that someone will cycle through this paddy field, I will definitely change my lens from 24-70 mm to 70-200 mm to get a little bit tight, but then I think this wide shot works well with the environment. Some people said that, the best photographs always…
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Photoshop Tips | Selective Editing | Dodging and Burning
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Traditional Sarawak Cultural Show | Annah Rais Longhouse | Sarawak In traditional photography during film days, dodging and burning were done inside the lightroom under the enlarger, where we burn certain part of the area to make it darker and dodge certain part of the area to make it lighter. Under the enlarger, if we put more exposure “burn” certain part of the area which falls on the paper under the enlarger, that part will be darker and if we put less exposure “dodging”, that particular area will be lighter, yes it is reverse result if we printing from a negative film. The reason why…
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Photography Tips | Low Light Conditions Without Using Flash
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Sarawak Cultural Show | Annah Rais Longhouse Sarawak | 24-70mm | ISO 200 | f/5.6 | 1/200 © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Sarawak Cultural Show | Annah Rais Longhouse Sarawak | 24-70mm | ISO 2000 | f/2.8 | 1/250 I’ve to admit that I’m the one that hate using flash during any photography assignment but sometimes I’ve no other option but to use flash because I’m not working for myself, and since my department require good photographs in the sense of sharp looking image and well lit subject, whereby artistic looking image are not welcome. Anyway back to the photograph above, if you have read…