• Adventure,  Art,  Travel

    Photography Tips | The Importance Of Negative Space in Composition

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Daily Life at Bario | Sarawak Robert Capa once said, “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.” It is about getting closer to the subject, get intimate with them, fills the frame , but then, every situation is difference. Sometimes you need to to get a little bit far away from your subject to tell the story better. Sometimes a distance subject, a smaller subject in the frame can makes a powerful looking photograph. Some people who saw this photograph might said that, why don’t I get closer to the man and the dog and just focus on him and the reflections…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Travel

    Life is a Journey | Road Less Traveled | Bario Sarawak

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Road Less Traveled | Bario | Sarawak “The Road Of Life Twists And Turns And No Two Directions Are Ever The Same. Yet Our Lessons Come From The Journey, Not The Destination.” – Don Williams Jr – It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction.  We get lots of information about life but little education in life from parents,teachers, and other authority figures, who should know better from their experience.  Information is about facts.  Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.  But no matter how much advice you get, you are the one who chooses which train to board.…

  • Art,  Emotion,  Family

    Photography Tips | How To Get Beautiful Bokeh

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Daughter Arianna “Bokeh” has evolved somewhat from its original meaning. Bokeh is now commonly used to refer to blurred lights or shapes within an image, where as, the term more accurately describes the aesthetic quality of the out-of-focus area of a photograph. Therefore, it is possible to have ‘good’ or ‘bad’ bokeh, (although that is purely subjective), but in essence, it’s all about the area of an image that falls outside the depth-of-field. In photography, the term bokeh represents the quality of the magical out-of-focus blur that makes it look like the subject is isolated from the background. It is visually appealing for…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Travel

    Photography Tips | Dealing With Low Light People Photography

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Buddhist Monk Light a Candles at Boudhanath Stupa | Kathmandu Nepal There are different type of situation when it comes to low light photography conditions. It can be landscape, architecture or simple people photography. The point is that, you are dealing with low light, very minimal light. Depending on the situation, our approach will differ, if you are shooting landscape or indoor architecture using only available light, using a tripod is a great help, so you can use Low ISO like ISO 100 or 200 and get all the details without increasing the ISO. But in this post I’m going to talk about photographing people…

  • Art,  Assignment,  Travel

    Photography Tips | How To Photograph Reflections In Water

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | An Abandon Debris of an Old Airplane at Bario Sarawak There are  many tips on how to photograph reflections in water. The best time of the day, depending on location maybe during early morning or during late afternoon and if you choose to photograph a reflection at the lake where it was quite busy with the people like at Phewa Lake in Nepal is during early morning when the lake was calm (because less people paddling a boat on the lake, less ripples)  , so there were no ripples in the water and you will get picture perfect postcard of Annapurna Range. It’s like a giant…