• Art,  eBook,  Travel

    The Evocative Image | A Photographer’s Guide To Capturing Mood

    © 2011 Craft and Vision | The Evocative Image | A Photographer’s Guide To Capturing Mood “So what makes a great photograph – I think really it has to move you and be striking by timing or visual dynamics – and light, working with great light.” ( David Muench ) It’s relatively easy to take a sharp, well-exposed photo with the latest digital cameras. But how do you take it a step further and capture an image that encompasses the mood you felt at the time? That was the excerpt in the first sentence of this great new eBook from Craft and Vision written by great Photographer Andrew S. Gibson.…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Expression,  Face,  Family,  Life,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Photography | The Elements of Style

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son | Black and White Some people might find it difficult to accept a portrait picture in a square format. When we talk about portrait, we imagine a picture of a person in a vertical format not a square format like what I like to do, like what I’m sharing it here. It’s not really my style because square format have been used long time ago made popular by Hasselblad camera with their classic 6×6 cm square film format. I don’t know why, but I simply love this type of square format. I rarely shoot film these days but I like the look…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Emotion,  Life,  Photojournalism,  Portrait,  Travel

    The Portrait Photographer | Personnel Connection

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | The Photographer in Action | Sungai Gabai | Selangor It was very easy for anyone to say that they too can take great portrait like National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry get if they were at the same place where Steve took the photographed. They think that they too can get a great Portrait of Afghan Girl just like what Steve captured if they were there too. Yes, it was easier to said than done, the truth is taking picture of a human is difficult. If you have read about the Sharbat Gula, the iconic Afghan girl that grace the National Geographic Magazine cover in June 1985…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Emotion,  Family,  Life,  Love,  Moment

    The Photographer’s Life | My Life

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | My Wife and My Son | Kuala Lumpur City Centre There is a reason why I don’t do part time photography like some others working photographers do. Photography is my career, I’m a full time working photographer for the Government of Malaysia. Most of my assignment involved official government functions and sometimes it happens during weekends like New Year or even during Eid ul-Fitr where most people celebrate the big days with their family. Unlike other government servant, as a photographer we don’t work only during normal office hour, sometimes we work until midnight like my latest assignment covering Kerdau state by-elections where we work…

  • Art,  Emotion,  Family,  Life,  Moment,  Photoshop

    Photography | Capturing The Moment is What Its All About

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Son HaiQal Peeking Through The Door Is there such a thing as beautiful photography without photoshop editing? Just plain skills, experiences and good lenses to capture the moment? That was a question I received from someone from my email. Actually it is, I mean you really don’t need to learn anything about Photoshop in order to become a photographer or to captured a beautiful photography. Great photography happens inside the camera, by the moment the image is captured by the film or the camera sensor. By right the moment happens in front of the lens but it was inside the camera that the moment…