• Art,  Assignment,  Travel

    Photography Tips | Get Closer

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Be Not Afraid To Get Closer | Thaipusam | Batu Caves Selangor “If Your Pictures Aren’t Good Enough, You’re Not Close Enough.”  – Robert Capa – Robert Capa, founder of MagnumPhotos once said that “If Your Pictures Aren’t Good Enough, You’re Not Close Enough.” Meaning that, sometimes you need to get closer to your subject for much stronger photograph. Yes sometimes like in sports for an example, you really can’t get closer to your subject because doing so will distract the movement of the sportsman, normally sports like football, tennis or athletic, you really need a telephoto lens in order to get “closer” to your subject “optically”,…

  • Art,  Family,  Travel

    Portrait Photography Tips | Composition Will Make or Break Your Picture

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | My Family at Bukit Jalil Park © 2014 Wazari Wazir | My Wife and Daughter at Bukit Jalil Park Just a quick update from me, just wanted to show on how composition does matter, composition can make or break your photograph. Choosing the right angle is sometimes is crucial to get a good photograph. For an example, take a look at the very top photograph, it is a lazy man approach, it is a kind of snap shot, a photograph taken without thinking too much about background, about what to include and what not to include, it is a “Snap”, thats why people call it…

  • Art,  Family,  Travel

    Portraiture Photography Tips | Choosing The Right Lens

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Daughter at The Park © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Daughter at KLCC Park As photographer we are also a visual story teller, unlike a writers we tell a story with a photograph that we took, sometimes we can tell a story with just a single photograph and sometimes with a set off photographs like in photo essay. The lens that we choose and the aperture that we set will determine the output of the photograph or the story that we wanted to tell, actually it is more than that, the choice of Shutter Speed also will have an effect on the…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Travel

    Travel and Photography | Sunrise in Sarangkot | Pokhara Nepal

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Sunrise in Sarangkot | Pokhara Nepal “The most important lessons in life can never be expressed in black and white, but must be experienced. I thought I knew it all back in university, and that everything of importance can be found in books. But the truth is that the most important things in life are very hard to put in black and white, including what I’ve said in this post. When most of the world’s information is at our fingertips, a mouseclick away, it makes it feel like we don’t need to experience any more. Movies, books, or “living vicariously through someone else” means we…

  • Art,  Travel

    Travel and Photography | Postcard From Kathmandu | Boudhanath Stupa

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Boudhanath Stupa | Kathmandu | Nepal Boudhanath (Devnagari: बौद्धनाथ) (also called Boudha, Bouddhanath or Baudhanath or the Khāsa Caitya) is one of the holiest Buddhist sites in Kathmandu (Yambu), Nepal. It is known as Khāsti in Nepal Bhasa Jyarung Khasyor in Tamang language or as Bauddha by modern speakers of Nepali. Located about 11 km (6.8 mi) from the centre and northeastern outskirts of Kathmandu, the stupa’s massive mandala makes it one of the largest spherical stupas in Nepal. The Buddhist stupa of Boudhanath dominates the skyline. The ancient Stupa is one of the largest in the world. The influx of large populations of refugees…