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Life After Art By Matt Appling | Book Review
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Life After Art | Matt Appling “How many years has it been since you were covered in paint in your elementary school’s art room? After reading Life after Art, you may want to go back. Matt takes readers on a journey to the art room to discover our purpose in life, which can be found in our God-given ability to create beauty for the world to see.” – ANNE JACKSON- (Speaker and author of Permission to Speak Freely: Essay & Art on Fear, Confession & Grace and Mad Church Disease: Overcoming the Burnout Epidemic) First thing first, I’m not really good at writing a book…
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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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Portrait Photography | Environmental Portrait
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Looking for Books | Kinokuniya Suria KLCC An environmental portrait is a portrait executed in the subject’s usual environment, such as in their home or workplace, and typically illuminates the subject’s life and surroundings. The term is most frequently used of a genre of photography. By photographing a person in their natural surroundings, it is thought that you will be able to better illuminate their character, and therefore portray the essence of their personality, rather than merely a likeness of their physical features. It is also thought that by photographing a person in their natural surroundings, the subject will be more at ease, and so be more conducive…