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Photojournalism | Malaysia Day and Independence Day Celebrations
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak waves his hand towards the crowd, during the double celebrations Malaysia Day and Independence Day in Kuala Lumpur September 16, 2011. Malaysia celebrated the 48th anniversary of the union of Malaysia as well as the 54 years of the countrys independence. On the background is the clock tower of historical Sultan Abdul Samad building, among Kuala Lumpur famous landmark other than Petronas Twin Tower © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak ( standing second from left on the platform ) raise his hand and shout “Merdeka” during the double celebrations Malaysia Day and Independence Day in Kuala…
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Basic Photography Composition | Framing Your Shots
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Frame Within The Frame | Istana Alam Shah | Klang Selangor In photography framing is the technique to bring focus to the subject, by properly framing our subject, it helps to draw viewers eyes to the subject. Anything can be use as a frame as long as it help to focus or direct the viewers eyes to the main subject. Here in this photograph I use the platform or the stage and the yellow decoration clothes up there to frame my main subject, actually my “real main subject” here is The King of Malaysia, but the King has not arrive just yet, so in this…
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Basic Photography | Break The Rule of Thirds
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | HaiQal at Sekinchan Paddy Field | Selangor | 24mm | f/6.3 | 1/80 | ISO 125 | Natural Light In photography, people always say that before we want to break the rules we should know what the rule are, otherwise how come we wanted to break the rules if we don’t have any idea about it. I think most of you who have visit my blog for quite sometimes, knows what the rule of third are, basically it was merely referred to the way we position our main subject. I mean by not putting our main subject at the dead centre of the frame. If…
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Basic Photography | Tips For Natural Light Photography
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Newborn Photography | My Son Raphael | 50mm | ISO 200 | f/2.0 | 1/1600 It is no secret that I use natural light for most of my son pictures, I don’t like using flash when it comes to photographing my son, I like to keep it natural and even though I know that flash can help me in certain situation when the lighting is bad, I choose not to use it. I take picture of my son just for my family, I don’t do business taking picture of other people children. So I can choose when to shoot and when not to shoot, when…
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Basic Photography | When To Use Spot Meter?
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | RAW Original File | Unedit © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Minor Editing | Just Color Enhancement There is a reason why camera manufacturer provide us with different set of metering mode, it is to make our job easier in order to get nice exposure, well balance exposure. It was not difficult to change a camera mode in your camera, but some people just don’t know how or when to do it or why they need to change the metering mode. If you take your time to read the Manual, you will find out that there are many type of metering that your camera offer. Among…