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Master of Colors eBook | Review By Jeffrey K. Edwards
© 2011 Jeffrey K. Edwards | Original Photograph © 2011 Jeffrey K. Edwards | After Editing With Master of Colors eBook The internet is an amazing tool for communication. Two weeks ago I was able to “skype” with a colleague in Mozambique about the HIV epidemic they are battling. This week I was in touch with Wazari Wazir, who has become a good friend simply by email, all the way from Malaysia. He is an esteemed photojournalist for the Malaysian government and a freelance photographer/instructor. Wazari has written several ebooks on photography and postprocessing work with photoshop which I have learned much from. His latest ebook, “Master of Colors” is…
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Children Photography Tips | Environmental Portraiture
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Son Having Fun at Kinokuniya Book Store | Suria KLCC My favorite lens for portrait photography is 50mm but when I need to include an environment for the subject I photograph, I will use wide angle lens but in this case, about the picture of my son above, I use Ultra Wide Angle Lens which is 10-20mm. The subject will look small in the frame but when we talk about environmental portraiture, it is more than just about the subject, it is about their surroundings also, where they lived, their work space, and their favorite place in a single frame. Environmental portrait is best…
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Child Portraiture | Extreme Close-Up | Expressive Portraiture
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son | Extreme Close Up | Expressive Portraiture “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough” – Robert Capa – Extreme portrait shot of my son above were taken with my favorite 50mm lens shoot at ISO 200 at n aperture of f2, I just add the grain in Photoshop to make it look like film effect. I rarely shoot my son picture at Higher ISO, unless I don’t have much choice like in the book store for an example where the light is quite dim. This is a crop version from the actual photograph where full head and shoulder were in…
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Photography Tips | Leading Lines | Having Fun at The Supermarket
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Having Fun at The Supermarket | Photography Tips | Leading Lines I’ve always imagine taking picture here in the supermarket whenever we go out shopping for our grocery but most of the times I did not dare to take a picture, there are a lot of people in the supermarket and furthermore most supermarket does not allow us to take a picture inside. But I just couldn’t resist looking at those leading lines, it really will make a powerful photograph and then again I want to captured my son having fun sitting at the supermarket trolley. The tricky part getting a picture here is that…
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Children Photography Tips | Color Does Matter
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait of My Son | Langkawi Kedah Child photography can be fun and challenging at the same time especially when it comes to photographing our very own child where they already get used being in front of the camera. I’ve been photography my son since the very fist day he was born, and nowadays he will always get irritated being photograph and it is very hard for me to keep him still and let alone to make him look at the lens. Even though I’ve tried al kind of silly jokes, most of the times it rarely get my son attention, maybe I was…