• Art,  Assignment,  Historical Moment,  Life,  Malaysia,  Photojournalism

    Photojournalism | Malaysia Day and Independence Day Celebrations

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak waves his hand towards the crowd, during the double celebrations Malaysia Day and Independence Day in Kuala Lumpur September 16, 2011. Malaysia celebrated the 48th anniversary of the union of Malaysia as well as the 54 years of the countrys independence. On the background is the clock tower of historical Sultan Abdul Samad building, among Kuala Lumpur famous landmark other than Petronas Twin Tower © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak ( standing second from left on the platform ) raise his hand and shout “Merdeka” during the double celebrations Malaysia Day and Independence Day in Kuala…

  • Art,  Assignment,  Malaysia,  Photojournalism,  Travel

    Basic Photography Composition | Framing Your Shots

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Frame Within The Frame | Istana Alam Shah | Klang Selangor In photography framing is the technique to bring focus to the subject, by properly framing our subject, it helps to draw viewers eyes to the subject. Anything can be use as a frame as long as it help to focus or direct the viewers eyes to the  main subject. Here in this photograph I use the platform or the stage and the yellow decoration clothes up there to frame my main subject, actually my “real main subject” here is The King of Malaysia, but the King has not arrive just yet, so in this…

  • Art,  Family,  Life,  Moment,  People,  Portrait,  Travel

    Basic Photography | Composition | Simplicity

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Son | Paddy Field | Sekinchan Selangor “As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.” – Sam Abell ( National Geographic  Photographer ) – This photograph may look too simple , just a picture of my wife holding my son on his arm, if I tell you that the background is a wall with giant paddy field picture on it, you might believe it because it was too simple, the background is too plain. The truth…

  • Art,  Expression,  Family,  Life,  Moment,  Photoshop,  Travel

    Basic Photography | Break The Rule of Thirds

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | HaiQal at Sekinchan Paddy Field | Selangor | 24mm | f/6.3 | 1/80 | ISO 125 | Natural Light In photography, people always say that before we want to break the rules we should know what the rule are, otherwise how come we wanted to break the rules if we don’t have any idea about it. I think most of you who have visit my blog for quite sometimes, knows what the rule of third are, basically it was merely referred to the way we position our main subject. I mean by not putting our main subject at the dead centre of the frame. If…

  • Family,  Life,  Photoshop

    A Printed Memory | Have You Print Your Photographs Lately?

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | A Printed Memory | Have You Print Your Photographs Lately Back in the old film days we used to print our picture whenever we finished shooting a roll of film, straight away we will head for the nearest photo lab in town to get our roll of film develop and get the negatives printed. It was a joy back then to see our pictures in prints. These days people who own a digital camera rarely got their personal pictures printed, yes they did prints for their customers but hardly for themselves. Most of the people especially my close friends that I knew are more than…