• Art,  Travel

    Master Black and White Photoshop Editing

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Akasaka Place | Tokyo | Original Photograph © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Variety of Black and White and Sepia Editing If you have been following me all this while, you will noticed that I love doing black and white Photoshop editing, especially for my sons picture. Actually the method of my editing also can be applied to a wide range of subjects, not necessarily for portrait, you can also use it for landscape and architectural photograph like the photograph above. There are many ways to turn your picture into black and white in Photoshop and I’ve try most of the technique but the most important…

  • Adventure,  Travel

    Travel Photography | Don’t Forget Self Portraits

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Once Upon a Time in Istanbul I’m not a travel photographer but I’m a photographer who like to travel a lot. Normally as photographers, we often forget to put ourselves in front of the camera. Most of times I travel with my friends and most of them  are also like to take pictures, so even though we travel together, our interest is not the same, I mean I maybe like certain places or angle and my friends like to go to some other places and we end up walking alone when we reach a certain location. For an example while traveling to Istanbul recently, when…

  • Art,  Family,  Life,  Moment

    Happiness | The Joy of Childhood

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | The Joy of Childhood “To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is something in them To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. To think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best. To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. To wear…

  • Art,  Travel

    Once Upon a Time in Tokyo | Imperial Palace Guard

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Imperial Palace Guard | Tokyo Japan While waiting outside The Imperial Palace for the State Banquet to finished, I took a photograph of this great looking Imperial Palace Guard, it was quite dark here but what attracted me to photograph this man is I that, like the quality of light that falls on this man face. I’ve to increased the ISO to 4000 to get this shot with 24-70mm, zoom at 70mm and using f/2.8. With that EXIF Data, you can imagined how dark the place is. I can’t change my position because there is another photographers on my left and right hand side, waiting…

  • Adventure,  Travel

    Life is Tough | When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going

    © 2005 | Wazari Wazir | Once Upon a Time at Mount Kinabalu | Sabah | Malaysia North Borneo When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett – “Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton – “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb – “What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson – “When you come to the end of your rope,…