• Adventure,  Art,  Assignment,  Malaysia,  Photojournalism,  Travel

    Photography | Shooting in Tricky Lighting Conditions

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Le Tour de Langkawi | Kuala Lumpur City Centre | ISO 400 | 1/1600 | F4 | 10 – 20mm As a photographer, sometimes we have to deal with a situation like this, a situation where the lighting condition can fools our camera. Most of the times if we use a Program Mode, your camera metering system will take and average reading of the situation and makes it own decision about the exposure. Your camera doesn’t know which is your main subject in the frame. All they care is to get the exposure right, “according to the camera metering system”. Believe me, if you are…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Emotion,  Family,  Life,  Portrait

    Portrait Photography | Expressive Portraiture

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | My Son | Expressive Portraiture “When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes.  But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!” – Ted Grant – Tweet news and informationbusiness,health,entertainment,technology automotive,business,crime,health,life,politics,science,technology,travel

  • Family,  Life,  Love,  Malaysia,  People,  Travel

    Photography | Family Outing | FRIM | Forest Research Institute Malaysia

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Traditional Malay House | Forest Research Institute Malaysia | FRIM Just a short family outing at FRIM Forest Research Institute of Malaysia in Kepong Selangor, approximately less than 30 minutes from Kuala Lumpur City Centre. This is great place for city folks to get away from the hustle and bustle of city centre especially during weekend, there was small pond for our children to play around and also a waterfall to chill you out. We spent less than three hours here, just wandering around here and there for a quick photo session and also just spent watching my little hero playing in the small pond…

  • Art,  Editing,  Family,  Love,  Moment,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Location Portrait Photography | KLCC Children Playground

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Son Playing at KLCC Kuala Lumpur City Centre | Children Playground Some people will call this as Environmental Portrait Photography, while others people like to called it as On Location Portraiture, where you shoot your subject at the location, preferred by you or your subject instead of in the studio. Among the advantage of shooting on location is that your subject can relax, play around maybe if it was a child or just simply hanging around. Among other main disadvantage for on location portrait photography is the weather and the lighting, you can’t control the weather and you can’t control the lighting, unless you…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Light,  Photojournalism,  Tourism,  Travel

    Travel Photography | Sunrise at Mesilau Kundasang Sabah

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Sunrise at Mesilau | Kundasang Sabah | Mount Kinabalu Golf Club Mesilau derived its moniker from the small stream of yellow waterfall which the locals there claimed to have been originally yellow in colour (silou is Dusun for yellow). Located 2, 000 meters east of Kinabalu Park; it is home to amazing nature growing pitcher plants such as Nephenthes rajah. Mesilau Nature Park is situated just further up from Kundasang Dairy Farm and Kinabalu Golf Resort. Mesilau is situated some 100 kilometers from Kota Kinabalu by road or about approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes  driving. Mesilau is practically the highest point accessible to automobiles; it…