• Art,  Editing,  Emotion,  Family,  Moment,  Photoshop,  Portraiture

    Child Photography | It Can Be Tough Sometimes

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Child Photography | HaiQal With Book Actually this is not the Photograph that I have in mind, my idea is to to photograph my son holding the book and show it to me. Bu he seems to be more interested with the chocolate than the book, maybe because that book is not for him, does not interest him at all because there is not many pictures in it, just words and more words. I just bough that book from Kinokuniya Bookstore in Kuala Lumpur. The title of the book is Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson. If I get the shot that I want,…

  • Book,  Life,  Travel

    Photography | Joy of Reading | Hungry For Knowledge

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | VisionMongers by David duChemin Nowadays we can get so many information and knowledges for free from the internet but for me it is good to buy a “Real” book that you can hold in your hand, it is also my way of showing my support to the person that I like especially to photographers that inspire me. David duChemin BLOG is among my favorite photographers blog. Almost everyday I will pay a visit to his blog even though there is nothing new there but just looking at his blog really inspire me. Maybe some of you will say, why waste a money buying a books…

  • Adventure,  Art,  History,  Photoshop,  Travel

    Travel Photography | London | Once Upon a Time

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | Travel Photography | London | Vintage Sometimes having a little bit of extra Photoshop skills can be fun, we can turn back the clock on London. I think the old building there help  with this texture editing but I don’t know whether McDonald’s and Burger King does exist in those times. In photoshop, with the right texture and the right picture this kind of editing just work seamlessly. I really like those London classic Black Taxi there. But it just doesn’t happen to be there, I do wait until that Taxi enter the frame and just about to take the turn, I press the shutter,…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Photojournalism,  Travel

    Photography | Mount Kinabalu | A Camera is Just a Tool

    © 2005 Wazari Wazir | Mount Kinabalu | Nikon D70s | Lens 18-70mm | 1/160 | ISO 200 | f7.1 © 2005 Wazari Wazir | Mount Kinabalu | Nikon D70s | Lens 18-70mm | 1/250 | ISO 200 | f/8 © 2005 Wazari Wazir | Mount Kinabalu | Nikon D70s | Lens 18-70mm | 1/160 | ISO 200 | f/7.1 Some people really doesn’t get it, that a camera is just a tool. It doesn’t have brain on its own. I know that they have been programed for certain functions like how to calculate a meter reading depending on the lighting situation, how to determine wether the focus is sharp…

  • Art,  Moment,  People,  Travel

    Action Photography | Slow Shutter Speed For Sense of Movement

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | Belly Dancer | Moroccan Pavilion Putrajaya Have you ever seen a whirling dervishes? It is one of the symbol of Turkey tourism. Sufi whirling (or Sufi spinning),  is a physically active meditation which originated among Sufis especially in Konya Turkey. If you have ever seen those “Whirling Dervishes” picture on the internet or in the magazine, most of the time you will see a a blurred kind of a picture, it is rare to see a whirling dervishes picture in a static movement, usually a photographer will use a slow shutter speed to captured that beautiful dancers in motion, captured their sense of movement gracefully. Actually when…