Expression
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Adobe Photoshop Tutorial | The Classic S – Curves
I just wanted to share with you basic tutorial how we can dramatically increase the contrast and tone in a picture by using simple Curves in Photoshop. This is very easy and quick way to really make your subject stand out in term in colors and contrast. Just open up your picture in Photoshop and go to Menu > Image > Adjustment > Curves to start and follow the next step. Now once your Curves dialogue box appear, just adjust the Curves so that you get something like the picture above, get the Curves to look like S. By pushing the Highlights a bit and by reducing or pushing down the…
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Children Photography | The Essence of Childhood
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | The Essence of Childhood | My Son Playing With His favorite Toys “If You Carry Your Childhood With You, You Never Become Older.” ( Tom Stoppard ) My son just woke up actually and as usual he will be looking for his toys and start playing around. He have nothing much to worry but just to play all day long. He is quite lucky because we as a parent can afford to buy him a simple toy, unlike during my childhood days where we came from not so rich family, my father rarely bought me a new toys, in fact I can hardly remember if…
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Child Photography | Being Happy
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Being Happy Running Here and There People say “childhood is the best time of your life.”. They have nothing much to worry about, they have no bills to pay, no dateline to meet, they don’t have to work, everything was provided by their parent but then again if we look from a bigger perspective, there are children not too far from our home, not too far from our country who struggle to have something to eat for a day especially in a war torn country like in Afghanistan, Iraq and currently at some Middle East country like Yemen, Libya and Tunisia and most recently in…
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Portrait Photography | The Art of Backlighting
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son | ISO 200 | F2 | 1/1250 What is Backlighting? As the name suggest, Backlighting refers to lighting in a photograph that comes from behind an object or a person. The lighting can be from many source, it can be a natural light or artificial light as long as the main source of the light coming from behind the subject, it is called a backlighting. Most of the times backlighting comes from ambient light around the subject of the photograph. If you look at the picture of my son above, the lighting coming from the early morning sunrise which is from the right…
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Digital Photography | Noise and Grain Factor
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son in Black and White | Photograph With Add Grain in Adobe Photoshop As the name suggest, “Noise” is something undesirable, unwanted thing, nobody wanted to be stranded in the middle of “Noisy” surroundings. People wanted to be in the peaceful environment, less “noise” to be exact but then again what it is all about when it comes to Digital Photography? What is “Noise” and what is “Grain”? Noise in digital photos consists of any undesirable flecks of random color in a portion of an image that should consist of smooth color. It is somewhat like a black fine sand scattered all…