Portrait
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Children Portrait Photography | Retro Muted Colors
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Children Portrait Photography | Vintage Edition | Retro Muted Colors Basically muted colors is fade color, less contrast. You can get this type of look in so many ways, among the easiest way is to drop the saturation in Photoshop. Bit for me it goes through a little bit of work, usually I will start with normal editing, then I will add another layer with the same picture or simply copy the layer below and turn the picture into black and white. You can either use black an white adjustment layer or simply convert it into greyscale or desaturate it under image adjustment. Then what…
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Portrait Photography | Black and White Photography Tips
© 2008 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son | Mr Big Eyes When it comes to black and white portrait photography, I will always try to keep it simple. Uncluttered background, less distraction element. Black and white will not work well for every picture, only certain picture will really look great if we convert in into black and white photography. When I took this picture of my son in 2008, I have a clear idea, what the photograph will end up to be, I mean the finished product. I want to convert the photograph into black and white, so I will make sure all the element are there, I…
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Advanced Photoshop Tips | Adding Texture To A Photograph
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait With Texture Basically adding texture to a photograph is not really a difficult process, all you have to do is find a texture that you like and then choose a photograph that you want to add a texture into it and just blend it together in Photoshop, you can choose Overlay, Screen or Soft Light blending option under layer palette and you are done, it is that simple. Sound that easy right? Same like taking picture, anybody who have a camera, be it iPhone camera, compact or DSLR can take picture, even a toddler can press a shutter button and take picture, the…
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Children Portrait Photography | Black and White Photography
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Children Portrait Photography I’ve always enjoy doing black and white photography, sometimes I like to get super deep rich black and sometimes I just like a lighter version of it, a little bit softer black and white or some people might called it as a shade of grey. Some people have asked me, what make good black and white picture, for me it is not an easy answer. It is personal and base on individual preference, we can choose whether we like super deep rich black and white or just a shade of grey. I think there are two type of a people who view…
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Basic Photography | Creative Photography by Using Slow Shutter Speed
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | Pulau Ketam | ISO 100 | Aperture f/10 | 1/20 Sometimes we need to think outside of the box to get a creative photograph, I was shooting this young lady with a group of a photographers at Pulau Ketam or Crab Island in Selangor, I just wanted to get a different shot, I don’t want standard static boring shot, I want to add some drama to my picture, so I decided to ask her to spin the umbrella, since the umbrella is colorful, I think it will look great if it was spinning. The problem is that, we are in a very bright area, very…