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Featured | Dunia Kamera Magazine | July 2012
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Majalah Dunia Kamera | Dunia Kamera Magazine | July 2012 I was recently interviewed by Dunia Kamera Magazine, Malaysia Edition for their “Figura Pro” feature. Actually I was a bit surprised when Mohd Khairul Aladin, Dunia Kamera journalist send me an SMS and telling me that he wanted to interview me to be featured for the magazine. Normally I don’t take serious about his SMS but nevertheless I agree and then the rest is history. Actually after the interview been done, I’ve never heard about it, the journalist never contact me after that but I was curious, I don’t know whether this is just a…
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Book | Good Reads | A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | A Million Miles in a Thousand Years | Donald Miller “I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can’t see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and…
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Tips For Family Portrait Photography | Keep it Simple
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | My Family Photography Outing | Hulu Langat Selangor When it comes to my family portrait photography, I like to keep it simple, so that the eyes will be drawn towards the main subject, which in this case is my family. Among the best kept secret in portrait photography especially is to keep it simple, meaning if we wanted to photograph someone, chose a plain background, with less distracting elements. That’s why in the old days majority of portrait photography were taken inside the studio, where there is only the subject and plain background. Nowadays people like their picture taken outdoors, with nature or any environment…
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Photoshop Tips | Selective Editing | Dodging and Burning
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Traditional Sarawak Cultural Show | Annah Rais Longhouse | Sarawak In traditional photography during film days, dodging and burning were done inside the lightroom under the enlarger, where we burn certain part of the area to make it darker and dodge certain part of the area to make it lighter. Under the enlarger, if we put more exposure “burn” certain part of the area which falls on the paper under the enlarger, that part will be darker and if we put less exposure “dodging”, that particular area will be lighter, yes it is reverse result if we printing from a negative film. The reason why…
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Family Photography | It’s The Moment That Matters
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Son | Family Photography It’s been awhile that I play around with texture in my photograph, at one time I’m obsessed with texture and I find it very hard to get it right and after awhile, after I know how to get it right, I no longer find it challenging and that’s the reason why nowadays I rarely playing with texture in Photoshop. Anyway this photograph of my family, my wife and my son Raphael, still can stand on it’s own, with or without the editing, the reason is that it’s the moment that matters. Even though if I took this photograph with…