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Portrait Photography Tips | Get Closer
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait of My Son “If Your Pictures Aren’t Not Good Enough, You’re Not Close Enough.” – Robert Capa – Sometimes it was true, that our picture is not good enough if we are not close enough. But when it comes to portrait photography, we have to look it in a different ways, sometimes we need to leave some space for that particular person to have a room for breath or to have something in the background to add context to the photograph especially if we are talking about environmental portraiture where we need to show to the viewers about the subject, where he work,…
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Creative Photography | Using Slow Shutter Speeds to a Create Sense of Motion
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Blurry Vision | Royal Malay Regiment at Parliament Square | 18-70mm | f/16 | 1/40 | ISO 200 While waiting for the events to begin I like to play around to keep me busy. This photograph were taken during welcoming ceremony of the visited Vietnam’s President Truong Tan Sang to Malaysia. The subject here is the Guard of Honour from Royal Malay Regiment. Usually for this kind of event, we the media members arrive at the location one hour before the event start, just to get to know the flow of the event, but actually the flow of the event is almost the same but…
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Basic Photography | Why Using High ISO Does Matter
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Book Worm | 24mm | ISO 1600 | f/2.8 | 1/25 I believe that most of of you knows that the best ISO is always the lowest ISO like ISO 100 and below and using High ISO should be always your last resort when using Low ISO can’t do the job for whatever reason. As many of you already know, ISO number refer to the sensitivity of the sensor towards the light, the higher the ISO, the more sensitive the sensor towards the light and this will give you the advantage to use higher shutter speed compared to if you use Lower ISO which will…
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Photography Composition Tips | Fill The Frame
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Guard of Honor | Parliament Square | Kuala Lumpur If you want your photograph to have more visual impact to the viewers, “Filling the Frame” is the answer. Great photographers knows what to include and what to exclude in their photograph, off course you should not fills your frame all the time but you must take into consideration what should goes into the frame. If by including the background or the environment will make your photograph have more impact, then by all mean, please do so but if you think the background only make your photograph look messy or cluttered then exclude them. To fill…