• Adventure,  Art,  Travel

    Photography Tips | Photoshop Editing Secrets

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Original Photograph | Unedited ©  2013 Wazari Wazir | After Edited With Photoshop Master Of Colors Editing Technique | Kota Belud Paddy Field Most people, especially  who have been following me through my photography probably by now, knew that I shoot my photograph in RAW format for most of the times. Why shoot in RAW, very simple, RAW file contain a lot of digital informations or data compared to JPG file. Currently I’m using Canon 5D Mark II full frame body. Normally if I shoot in JPG the file size will be around 5 to 7 MB but if I shoot in RAW format the…

  • Travel

    Istanbul | Al-Masjid al-Nabawi Replica

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | People Looking at The Replica of Al- Masjid Al-Nabawi Inside Blue  Mosque (Sultan Ahmed Mosque) Istanbul Al-Masjid al-Nabawī (Arabic: اَلْمَسْجِد اَلنَّبَوِي‎ ”Mosque of the Prophet”), often called the Prophet’s Mosque, is a mosque built by the Islamic Prophet Muhammad situated in the city of Medina. It is the second holiest site in Islam (the first being the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca). It was the second mosque built in history and is now one of the largest mosques in the world. After an expansion during the reign of al-Walid I, it also now incoporates the site of the final resting place of Muhammad and early Muslim leaders Abu Bakar and Umar. The site was originally adjacent to Muhammad’s house; he settled there after his Hijra (emigration) to Medina in 622. He…

  • Art,  Expression,  Face,  Family

    Backlit or Backlighting Photography Tips for Portraiture

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Backlighting Photography Tips | Canon 5D Mark II | 50mm | ISO 160 | 1/1000 | f/2 I’ve written a lot of backlighting photography tips, you can check my previous post regarding on camera metering to get the best exposure for your subject. In this blog post I just wanted to share a simple tips that is suitable for portrait photography in backlit situation. As the name suggest, backlit or backlighting refer to the light coming behind your subject, in this case, behind the person you’re photographing. Normally you the photographer are facing the sun and the sun is behind your subject or the person…

  • Family,  Moment

    Newborn Photography | Baby Bath

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Arianna | Baby Bath We don’t have any fancy bath tube to begin with just normal ordinary plastic basin to bath our baby. Actually it is a little of an adventure to bath a one week old baby, they are so small and vulnerable. This is not a beautiful picture but someone once told me, that we can’t remember what was happening to us during this period of time until we reach three or four years old. Hopefully with this photograph, Arianna will have a glimpse of what does it looks like when her mother give him a bath. Most babies will cry during bathing time,…

  • Art,  Emotion,  Family

    Photography Tips | When and Why You Should Use High ISO

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | HaiQal and Raphael Playing WIth iPhone | ISO 2500 | 50mm | F/1.4 | 1/60 I believe that some of you who own a DSLR are afraid to use High ISO and some of you especially newbie, those who just started photography as a hobby fully dependent on Program Mode and rarely use Manual Mode when it comes to camera setting, some entry level DSLR which have build in pop up flash when you set the camera to Auto or Program Mode, they will automatically switch on the pop up flash when the camera sensor “think” that the lighting was not enough for normal photography…