Adventure
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Photography | Mount Kinabalu | A Camera is Just a Tool
© 2005 Wazari Wazir | Mount Kinabalu | Nikon D70s | Lens 18-70mm | 1/160 | ISO 200 | f7.1 © 2005 Wazari Wazir | Mount Kinabalu | Nikon D70s | Lens 18-70mm | 1/250 | ISO 200 | f/8 © 2005 Wazari Wazir | Mount Kinabalu | Nikon D70s | Lens 18-70mm | 1/160 | ISO 200 | f/7.1 Some people really doesn’t get it, that a camera is just a tool. It doesn’t have brain on its own. I know that they have been programed for certain functions like how to calculate a meter reading depending on the lighting situation, how to determine wether the focus is sharp…
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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…
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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…
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Action Photography | Sense of Movement
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Joy of Childhood | KLCC Park | ISO 100 | 1/20 | F 18 | Lens 10-20mm First of all I would like to let you know that this is not a Photoshop effect or tricks even though I know how to do it in Photoshop but this action shot, with a sense of movement and blurred background is done right in the camera. I’ve to try many times to get this shot right, I mean to get my son face in focus, not too blurred, you cannot get super sharp image while panning but the point is to get the face of the subject…
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Photography | Bad Weather Photography | Rains
© 2006 Wazari Wazir | Le Tour de Langkawi 2006 | Kuala Lumpur © 2006 Wazari Wazir | Le Tour de Langkawi 2006 | Kuala Lumpur © 2006 Wazari Wazir | Le Tour de Langkawi 2006 | Kuala Lumpur About the picture above, I really did not plan to shoot in the rain and not really ready for it, actually it was very good start, the weather was fine with clear blue sky on that day, the final stage of Le Tour de Langkawi 2006 in Kuala Lumpur but suddenly after few laps, unexpectedly downpour change everything. I think most photographers are not ready facing the rains because it was…