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Photography and Artistic Vision
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | RAW File Unedited | Taj Mahal | Agra | India © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Edited With Photoshop Tone | Taj Mahal | Agra | India © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Monochromatic | Taj Mahal | Agra | India First and foremost if you call yourself as a “purist” in photography, then you should leave this post, there is no point wasting your time reading my musings and rant here, it is better for for you to take the camera and shoot something rather than wasting your time reading my blog here. On the other hand if you like editing, then please stay with me,…
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Photography and Photoshop Editing
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Putrajaya Botanical Garden © 2011 Wazari Wazir | (Left) RAW Unedited | (Right) Edited in Photoshop To be honest with you, I hate to write about this topic and I hate it when someone say that a photograph look great because if editing and they tend to forget the photography factor to get the shot, to get it right in the camera. I will write based on my personal experience. Whether you want to edit or not, it’s up o you, it’s your photograph, it’s your work and it’s your masterpiece, you can be purist and stick with a traditional photographic approach or embrace new…
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Basic Photography | Composition and Storytelling
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Son Having Fun at Independence Square | Dataran Merdeka | Kuala Lumpur Photographers always associate composition as The Art of Seeing, Composition is a key element of good photographs. How you compose your picture will have an impact on how it will perceived by the viewers. There is so much you can show and there is so little that you can show depending on your intention. If you just wanted to show your subject (portrait) then maybe using fast lens with big aperture will throw away the background and make your subject stand out, make it the main focus in the photograph. On the other hand if…
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Basic Photography | Why Using High ISO Does Matter
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Book Worm | 24mm | ISO 1600 | f/2.8 | 1/25 I believe that most of of you knows that the best ISO is always the lowest ISO like ISO 100 and below and using High ISO should be always your last resort when using Low ISO can’t do the job for whatever reason. As many of you already know, ISO number refer to the sensitivity of the sensor towards the light, the higher the ISO, the more sensitive the sensor towards the light and this will give you the advantage to use higher shutter speed compared to if you use Lower ISO which will…
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Photoshop Tips and Tricks | How To Get Retro Color Effects
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Wife and My Son Raphael Back From The Clinic | Retro Color Effect There are many ways to get this effects, retro effect or old school kind of effect where we try to mimics the look of early 60s or 70s photograph where they lack contrast, a bit fade and lot’s of grain. The easiest way is off course to use a camera film, use High ISO Film like ISO 400 to 1600 and if you use expired roll of film, maybe you will get a better result, “better” here I mean not beautiful but better in term of mimicking the look of old…