• Adventure,  Life,  Malaysia,  Moment,  People,  Photojournalism,  Travel

    Travel Photography | Human Touch

    © 2008 Wazari Wazir | Mabul Island | Sabah | Malaysia North Borneo I’m taking a break from posting my son picture here, just to make my blog a little bit interesting. This entry is about travel photography, from my point of view. I’m not an expert on this field because I’m not a travel photographer by profession, even though I wish I were but nevertheless as a photographer I do travel a lot but this photograph above which I took in 2008 is not part of my official assignment. This is personal photographic outing with my friends in Mabul Island of Sabah. Let me get straight without wasting too…

  • Adventure,  Art,  People,  Travel

    Travel Photography Tips | Be Patient and You Will Be Rewarded

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Travel Photography | Hawa Mahal | Jaipur | Rajasthan Hawa Mahal, the pink building here is among the most photograph building in Jaipur Rajasthan, or better known as The Pink City because there is a lot of pink colored building here. It is quite difficult to photograph this building beautifully because of its location, really close to the busy street and you really need super wide angle lens in order to get the building from top to bottom since you can’t move further back and using 50mm standard lens will never get you the whole building. Behind me there is a row of small shops…

  • Art,  Expression,  Life,  Love,  Moment,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Children Photography | A Moment Captured

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait of My Son | A Moment Captured There is a great joy for me whenever I mange to take a picture of my son, I’ve written again and again, how difficult it is to take a picture of my son lately, he is so active and I’ve to obey when he said “No” to photograph, he is a big boy now, he can hide and he can run but I will definitely get his photograph no matter how hard it is. As many people who have been following my blog already knew that, I’m a full time working photographer for the Government of…

  • Art,  Assignment,  Moment,  Photojournalism,  Travel

    Basic Photography | Composition | Using Repetition and Patterns in Photography

    © 2008 Wazari Wazir | 51st Anniversary of Independence | Malaysia National Day Celebration | Kuala Lumpur I have nothing much to write here, just wanted to share with you a little bit about composition, which is using repetitive patterns for composition. The photographs above were taken in 2008 during our National Day Celebration here in Kuala Lumpur, I purposely choose a higher angle to get this shot, you will never get this kind of patterns if we shoot from the ground, same eye level with them, the only way os to shoot from above so that you can see the patterns. Using a longer lens help to make things…

  • Art,  eBook,  Editing,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Basic Photoshop Tips | How To Use Layer Mask To Create Montage

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Simple Technique to Create Montage Using Layer Mask Among the most powerful tool in Photoshop is “Layer Mask”, during my Photoshop Workshops with Spylens Studio in Kota Kinabalu last week end, I spent quite a lot of time explaining to the participants, how they can make use Layer Mask for selective editing. Not just that once they have a grasp of Layer Mask, they can use it to channel their creativity further. This is not really a tutorial but basically just wanted to show what you can do with Layer Mask especially those who are new with “Masking” technique in Photoshop. It was easy to…