• Art,  Family,  Travel

    Photography Tips | Learn To See The Light Like a Pro

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Cameron Highlands Tea Plantation | All Photographs Taken With 24mm Prime Lens on Canon 5d Mark II The photographs above were taken at Cameron Valley or Bharat Tea Plantation, it is located at the main road going up to Tanah Rata from Ringlet. This is among the most visited tea plantation at Cameron Highlands due to its location, easy access from the main road compared to Habu Boh Tea Plantation and Sungai Palas Boh Tea Plantation, where you need to travel a bit deeper from the main road to get access into it. This is the favourite stop for picture taking, camera toting tourist to get…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Travel

    Portrait Photography Tips | To Bokeh or Not?

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Daughter | 50mm | ISO 160 | f/2 | 1/500 © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Son at Cameron Highlands | 24mm | ISO 200 | f/5 | 1/160 © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Sarangkot Pokhara | Nepal | 50mm | ISO 100 | f/11 | 1/160 Someone asked me, whether he need to “bokeh” his background or not when taking a portrait. Before that, to those of you who have no idea what is “Bokeh” comes from the Japanese word “boke” which means “blur” or “haze”. Generally speaking it is in out of focus area of an image which normally refer…

  • Art,  Expression,  Family,  Melayu,  Portrait,  Travel

    Portrait Photography | Expression Beats Perfection

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Son | Blue Valley | Cameron Highlands “Epression beats perfection any day of the week, and if you have the most perfect photograph in the universe it’s a zero if you have no expression from your subjects.” – Bambi Cantrell – When it comes to portrait photography, I’ve to agree with Bambi Cantrell quote above “Expression Beats Perfection”. If you are familiar with portrait photography, more or less the pose is almost the same but what makes each portrait differ from one another is the expression from the subjects, whether they are smiling, laughing, serious or  sad looking face. There is so much…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Life,  Malay,  Malaysia,  Melayu,  Moment,  People,  Photojournalism,  Photoshop,  Portraiture,  Reportage Photography,  Travel

    Living Life To The Fullest

    © 1997 Wazari Wazir | Cameron Highlands | Ye Olde Smoke House Since childhood I like to travel and one of the reason why I choose Photography as my career is because I Love To Travel, Photography is my first, second and third choice, in fact I don’t have any choice when it come to my career, I’ve already set my mind to become a photographer, I love being outdoors, and I hate “Office Life” 9 to 5 jobs is not for me, I know that some people love office life, enjoy office life but it’s not for me. Being as a photographer doesn’t make me rich unless you are…