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Traveling With Laptop | To Bring or Not To Bring?
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | My Temporary Mobile Office | Istanbul | Turkey Whether to bring laptop or not during traveling, you need to ask yourself this simple question, why do you need to carry a laptop in the first place? If you are working as a travel writer and need to email your article on the road, then maybe having a laptop will be handy but on the other hand if you only intended to use your laptop for emailing, skype, facebooking, backup some photos, then maybe you should not have bring it with you. I personally don’t bring a laptop when traveling on personal traveling. I only bring…
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Why Travel? Because Life is a Journey
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Trekking The Langtang Valley | Nepal “Journeys are gifts we give ourselves. Even if you are very lucky and have someone else footing the bill for your journey, you are still giving yourself a gift just by going. Too many people have opportunities to travel, but choose to stay home, fearful of the unknown, shackled by their everyday rut, tied down to commitments that don’t have to tie them down if they would seek creative solutions. We can’t always travel right away, but we can always be planning, scheming, chiseling away at the things that keep us home so that someday in the hopefully not…
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Portrait Photography Tips | To Bokeh or Not?
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Daughter | 50mm | ISO 160 | f/2 | 1/500 © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Son at Cameron Highlands | 24mm | ISO 200 | f/5 | 1/160 © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Sarangkot Pokhara | Nepal | 50mm | ISO 100 | f/11 | 1/160 Someone asked me, whether he need to “bokeh” his background or not when taking a portrait. Before that, to those of you who have no idea what is “Bokeh” comes from the Japanese word “boke” which means “blur” or “haze”. Generally speaking it is in out of focus area of an image which normally refer…
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Backlit or Backlighting Photography Tips for Portraiture
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Backlighting Photography Tips | Canon 5D Mark II | 50mm | ISO 160 | 1/1000 | f/2 I’ve written a lot of backlighting photography tips, you can check my previous post regarding on camera metering to get the best exposure for your subject. In this blog post I just wanted to share a simple tips that is suitable for portrait photography in backlit situation. As the name suggest, backlit or backlighting refer to the light coming behind your subject, in this case, behind the person you’re photographing. Normally you the photographer are facing the sun and the sun is behind your subject or the person…
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Photography Tips On How To Get Your Photography Noticed
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | HaiQal Photograph on The Cover of CONFRONTATION Book A lot has been said and written about getting your photograph noticed, among the suggestion is to enter photography forum, join photography contest, join photography exhibition and maybe talk to your favourite photography magazine about your photograph or tell them that you have a great photo essay that might be interesting for their readers. All those things has their own merit on getting your photograph noticed out there, maybe in the end someone might wanted to buy your photograph or simply wanted to hire you to take a picture for them. The thing is, you need to…