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Basic Photography | The Art of Composition
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Paddy Field | Sungai Besar Selangor Photography is a highly subjective matter, especially when we talk about the artistic aspect of photography. Just like painting, some people can understand and appreciate abstract or modern art while others can only appreciate simple art or straight forward art where they can clearly see the subjective matter, whether it is a portrait or landscape where abstract art is a little bit complicated to be understand for most people on the street including me. Personally for me, when it comes to composition, it is also a subjective matter, yes we all know about rule of third, golden rules and…
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The Portrait Photographer | Personnel Connection
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | The Photographer in Action | Sungai Gabai | Selangor It was very easy for anyone to say that they too can take great portrait like National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry get if they were at the same place where Steve took the photographed. They think that they too can get a great Portrait of Afghan Girl just like what Steve captured if they were there too. Yes, it was easier to said than done, the truth is taking picture of a human is difficult. If you have read about the Sharbat Gula, the iconic Afghan girl that grace the National Geographic Magazine cover in June 1985…
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Portrait Photography | Family Matters
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Family Photograph Taken at Paddy Fields In Sungai Besar | Selangor I would like to end this year post with a picture of my family taken at Paddy Fields in Sungai Besar Selangor. Actually this picture was taken on Christmas Day. Since it is a public holiday, we decided to go here in Sungai Besar Selangor and introduce our son to the paddy fields. Sungai Besar or Sekinchan in Selangor is a favorite place among shutterbug who wanted to photograph a paddy fields because of it location, just merely less than two hours leisurely drive from Kuala Lumpur can get you here. It is also…
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Black and White Photography Tips
© 2007 Wazari Wazir | Black and White Photography Please don’t be surprise, you are still at my blog, wazari wazir blog, I know it may come to most of you as a surprise when you see this kind of a picture, a pebbles, usually I don’t post this kind of a picture, to those of you who are familiar with my style, knows that I like to shoot portrait and this still life shot is not something that you would expect in my blog, the reason is, I want to share with you some of the secret recipe of great black and white photographs. I took the picture above…
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Portraiture | Simplify | Watch The Background
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer. ( Wikipedia ) When shooting portrait, I like to keep my background simple, less distraction so the viewers can concentrate on my subject without any distraction.…