-
Portrait Photography Tips | The Props
© 2008 Wazari Wazir | Senior Portrait Photography | Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia We have to admit that posing does not comes naturally for most of us. As a photographers sometimes we find it hard for us to direct a model or a person how to pose in front of the camera, unless we are photographing a professional model with years of experience in modelling. Among the most difficult part to pose is the position of the hand. It may look among the smallest part on the human body but most of the times the hand position can make or break a good portrait shot. Sometimes we have no idea…
-
Portrait Photography | Black and White | Retro Look
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Black and White | Portrait Photography Just like color photography where we can play with the tone, black and white photography is no exception, I mean there are variety of black and white tones, some may prefer it to be solid from pure white to deep solid black white some others just like a “shade of grey” kind of thing. Some people prefer the back and white to be grainy, while others like it to be clean, some people like their black and white to have a film look like they are taken with Kodak Professional TRI-X 400 Film. It doesn’t matter which type you prefer, it’s…
-
Photography | Camera Settings | Which is Our Priority?
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | iPhoneography | Camera Setting | Manual Mode One of the reason why people bought a DSLR camera is because they have more choice in term of creative expression with their camera. Unlike some entry level compact camera, you can’t do many customization to your liking, there is a thing you can do and there is a thing that you can’t do or decide on your own and have to let the camera make a decision for you. That’s why those who are serious with photography will try to save enough money to get a DSLR, so they can express themselves better if only they know…
-
Photography | Photoshop Photo Editing | Before and After
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | Before Editing | Original Unedit Picture © 2009 Wazari Wazir | After Editing With Photoshop | Playing With Color Tone Playing with color tone is not something new, photographers have been playing or experimenting with it since black and white film days. In those days they call it “The Art of Tinting”, they tint their black and white photograph to have some colors and the most famous one is “Sepia Tint” or tone. The process of tinting in the darkroom was a bit time consuming and cumbersome and only skilled person in the darkroom printing can do it well and most of the time the…
-
Photography | How To Crop Images
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | Senior Portrait | Lake Garden For me cropping is an art in itself, some people prefer to do a cropping in the camera, we don’t call it a cropping if you do it in the camera but that’s composition. We can make good composition right in the camera if we have the time to do that, like taking a portrait in the studio, shoot landscape, architecture, when you almost have total control of your subject but sometimes when it comes to shoot fast moving subject, sports for an example it is difficult to get a nice composition in the frame, because the subject moving so…