• Art,  Care,  Culture,  East,  Emotion,  Expression,  Face,  Family,  Malaysia,  Melayu,  Moment,  People,  Photoshop,  Portrait,  Portraiture,  Tender

    HaiQal | Backlighting

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | Backlighting Portraiture | My Family When I start as a PRESS Photographers, among few things that bother photographers is “Backlighting”, whether it came from artificial light source or from natural light, sometimes PRESS photographers will shout or ask politely to their subject to move here and there to block the “backlighting”. Backlighting can cause “flare” that make our subject unclear especially on their face. Sometimes photographers will use flash and most of the times they do use flash to bring back light onto their subject face so it does not appear to be dark and it is true that metering is tricky for backlighting. To…

  • Art,  Emotion,  Expression,  Face,  Family,  Life,  Light,  Love,  Malaysia,  Melayu,  Photoshop,  Portrait,  Portraiture

    Portrait Photography | Untitled Expression

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait of My Son I just bought a new lens actually, Nikkor 50mm f1.4 D lens, It’s not an easy decision to make between 50mm G Lens and D lens and after much thought I think 50mm D lens gives me more value for my money, after all, good picture is more than just about camera equipment. I’ve been shooting with Nikkor 50mm f1.8 for two years already which I bought on August 23rd 2007 and now I need extra speed to capture the light since I like to shoot with natural light and like to shoot under low light photography. This shot was…

  • Family,  Life,  Malaysia,  Melayu,  Photoshop,  Portrait,  Portraiture

    Salam Aidilfitri | Salam Silaturrahim

    Di kesempatan yang ada ini saya ingin mengambil kesempatan mengucapkan Selamat Menyambut hari raya Aidilfitri but teman-teman blogger serta rakan-rakan fotografi dan sesiapa juga yang singgah ke blog saya yang tak seberapa ini. Di sini saya juga ingin mengambil kesempatan untuk memohon ribuan maaf andaikata ada diantara penulisan yang yang mungkin agak kasar ataupun menimbulkan rasa ketidaksenagan hati di kalagan saudara dan saudari, sebagai insan yang lemah saya mengakui kelemahan diri dan dengan ini sepuluh jari disusun memohon maaf di bulan yang mulia ini. Akhir kata dari saya sambutlah Aidilfitri ini seadanya, jangan membazir dan berlebih lebih, Aidilfitri sememangnya hanya datang sekali dalam setahun namun bukanlah menjadi lesen kepada kita…

  • Assignment,  Historical Moment,  History,  Life,  Malaya,  Malaysia,  Melayu,  Moment,  Photojournalism,  Politic,  Reportage Photography

    Welcome Home

    After a long break, finally I can update my blog, I was not that busy actually but I just got back my computer today 090909. Almost two weeks I’ve been without my laptop, have to send it for repair due to “Random Shutdown” syndrome, every now and then my laptop will shutdown without any warning, just randomly. I think lately Apple computer have a lot of problem or maybe I got a “bad” apple. About the picture above, t was taken during welcoming ceremony of our 1st submarine KD Tunku Abdul Rahman at Port Klang Malaysia after 54 days of voyage from France to Malaysia. It was very long journey…