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Photography | The RAW Advantage
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Winter in Kashmir | Snow White What is RAW? The RAW file format is digital photography’s equivalent of a negative in film photography, it contains untouched, “raw” pixel information straight from the digital camera’s sensor, on the other hand if you shoot in JPEG, the camera will do some post processing for you and as a result some of the details will be thorn away, or will be lost, and that’s why the JPEG file is small compared to RAW file and don’t be surprise to see that your JPEG files is better looking at your computer screen than your RAW files, the reason is that the…
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Winter Photography | Tips Shooting in The Snow
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Winter Photography in Kashmir | February 2012 © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Snow White | Winter in Kashmir | Adobe Photoshop Camera RAW | 24mm | ISO 200 | 1/640 | f/8 Exposure can be very critical when shooting snow, most of the times your camera meter tend to underexposed the picture because your camera think that there is large white area in the frame and needs to underexposed to get a proper exposure. It is not adviseable shooting snow using Auto Mode, it doesn’t matter whether you are using Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority of or fully Program Mode. All this metering will fool your…
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Travel Photography | India | New Delhi | Kashmir | Agra | Part VI
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Kashmiri Muslim devotees participate in a procession to celebrate the birthday of Prophet Mohammed in Pahalgam Srinagar, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012. © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Pahalgam in Winter | Kashmir On Sunday Feb 5, we decided to visit Pahalgam, which is approximately two hours drive from Dal Lake Srinagar. The night before we have a little bit of discussion with the hotel manager Mr Rouf, we ask his advise and telling him bout our interest in Photography. At first he suggest us to visit Gulmarg which is famous for ski resort but I told him that we are not very interested with skiing and…
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Travel iPhoneography | Kashmir in Winter 2012
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | iPhoneography | Kashmir in Winter | February 2012 “I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.” – Andrew Wyeth – “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.” – Lewis Carrol – “Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.…
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Kashmir | The Road Less Traveled
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Sonamarg Kashmir | The Road Less Traveled Why? “‘Why do you do it?’ friends often ask, perplexed, Brows raised, minds sorely vexed. ‘The world out there is dangerous! Aren’t you scared? Why do this? You need steady work, a house, two cars! You have only a motorbike, and sleep under stars!’ Dear friend, if you must ask, you cannot know This curiosity that drives me so. To you it is hidden; in me rises unbidden! But one day the world I’ll have ridden By iron steed, then perhaps this need Will have vanished, finally vanquished! That day will find me on deathbed, With no regrets…
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