• Art,  Emotion,  Expression,  Face,  Light,  Malay,  Malaysia,  Moment,  Portrait,  Portraiture

    HaiQal | Expressive Portraiture

    Expression is something that make a portrait. Expression shows an individual his or her character or personality, expression can add mood to a picture, tears, smile, moody, bored, joy, all this kind of expression doesn’t need words to explain. Expressive portraiture will have an impact and usually timeless, most great portrait that considered  timeless is a portrait with a very good expression and for sure it is not all about smiling face. Have you remembered Afghan girl that grace National Geographic magazine front cover taken by legendary National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry. Have you seen a portrait of famous Prime Minister of United Kingdom Winston Churchill taken by Yousuf Karsh…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Face,  Hitam Putih,  Malay,  Malaysia,  Portrait,  Portraiture

    Black and White | Colors

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait This is the result when I can’t decide which version to upload, most of the times when I do my editing I will also make black and white from any picture, just to know whether any particular picture will look good or not in monotone and most of the times too, both version are perfect to my satisfaction and yet very hard for me to pick one of them. I love texture and will always play with them, never get tired of it. At the beginning I’m not so good at it and when I see a beautiful texture picture on flickr, I…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Hitam Putih,  Life,  Light,  Malaysia,  Portrait,  Portraiture,  Travel

    Portraiture | Portrait of A Dancer

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of a Dancer People often ask me, how I did my black and white editing, actually that was not an easy answer for me, one thing that maybe most newbie doesn’t know is that, not every picture will look great when we convert it into black and white, there are a picture that work wonder in colors but will be lifeless if we convert it into black and white. One thing that we must keep in mind is that, whatever we do, I mean in term of photography and in this case portraiture, just keep it simple, background play a very important role here…

  • Book,  Photojournalism

    Education Is Your Greatest Investment

    Dipendekkan cerita, ini adalah buku terbaru yang saya beli, dah agak lama saya cari buku nie, memang agak payah nak jumpa pasal baru jer keluar, so masa jalan-jalan di Suria KLCC di kedai buku favorite saya di Kinokuniya, saya terjumpa buku ni, masa tu cuma ada tiga naskah sahaja yang tinggal, tak boleh nak belek-belek pasal berbungkus, tak kesahlah tu pasal dah banyak review tentang buku Within The Frame ni yang saya baca di internet, sambar satu dan terus bayar di kaunter, harganya boleh tahan jugaklah tapi kalau nak dibandingkan dengan sebijik lens baru, rasanya buku ni amatlah murah, apa guna kita bergaya dengan peralatan kamera yang baru, yang canggih…