• Art,  Photoshop,  Travel

    Winter Photography | Tips Shooting in The Snow

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Winter Photography in Kashmir | February 2012 © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Snow White | Winter in Kashmir | Adobe Photoshop Camera RAW | 24mm | ISO 200 | 1/640 | f/8 Exposure can be very critical when shooting snow, most of the times your camera meter tend to underexposed the picture because your camera think that there is large white area in the frame and needs to underexposed to get a proper exposure. It is not adviseable shooting snow using Auto Mode, it doesn’t  matter whether you are using Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority of or fully Program Mode. All this metering will fool your…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Black and White,  Photoshop,  Portrait,  Travel

    Portrait From Kashmir | The Mountain Man

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | The Mountain Man of Sonamarg | Kashmir | February 2012 When Jack London had his portrait made by the noted San Francisco photographer Arnold Genthe, London began the encounter with effusive praise for the photographic art of his friend and fellow bohemian, Genthe. “You must have a wonderful camera…It must be the best camera in the world…You must show me your camera.” Genthe then used his standard studio camera to make what has since become a classic picture of Jack London. When the sitting was finished, Genthe could not contain himself: “I have read your books, Jack, and I think they are important works of…

  • Art,  Travel

    Travel Photography | Sea Gypsies | Mabul Island | Sabah

    © 2008 Wazari Wazir | Sea Gypsies | Mabul Sabah “When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!”  – Ted Grant – Tweet news and informationbusiness,health,entertainment,technology automotive,business,crime,health,life,politics,science,technology,travel

  • Art,  Editing,  Photoshop

    Photoshop Tips | How To Create Custom Borders and Frames in Photoshop

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Raphael at Kinokuniya Bookstore There are many ways to create a custom borders or frames in Photoshop and what I’m trying to share it here is among the few ways that you can do it in Photoshop. Here I will show you how to get just the same border like the picture above. © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Change Your Background and Foreground Color STEP 1 : Before we get start, please make sure that you change the background color into white because we wanted a white border to frame our picture, yes you can have any color you like but for this tutorial and…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Tourism,  Travel

    Travel Photography | Into The Wild | Kashmir in Winter

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Winter in Sonamarg | Kashmir February 2012 “So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon,…