• Art,  Photoshop,  Travel

    Photography and Photo Editing

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Beyoglu | Istanbul Turkey | After Editing © 2012 Wazar Wazir | Beyoglu | Istanbul Turkey | SOOC | Before Editing When people ask me, I mean when new photographer or someone who just find an interest in photography ask me whether to edit or not their pictures, my answer will always “it depends”. Sometimes it depends on your clients requirement or maybe your own preference or simply you like to make your pictures look better than what they actually are. For those of you who have been following my blog for awhile, knows that I like to play around with Photoshop, sometime I like…

  • Adventure,  Art,  History,  Photoshop,  Travel

    Travel Photography | London | Once Upon a Time

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | Travel Photography | London | Vintage Sometimes having a little bit of extra Photoshop skills can be fun, we can turn back the clock on London. I think the old building there help  with this texture editing but I don’t know whether McDonald’s and Burger King does exist in those times. In photoshop, with the right texture and the right picture this kind of editing just work seamlessly. I really like those London classic Black Taxi there. But it just doesn’t happen to be there, I do wait until that Taxi enter the frame and just about to take the turn, I press the shutter,…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Editing,  Photoshop,  Tender,  Travel

    Travel Photography | London | Playing With The Tone

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | Travel Photography | London The photograph above were taken in 2009 during my long transit in London to Santiago Chile from Kuala Lumpur, it was a long haul journey and very long transit here, 12 hours of transit in London. I manage to get out of the airport and a have a walk around Paddington. I don’t want to talk much about London here since it was almost two years since my “transit” here, instead I want to talk about color tone or the result that we can get by playing with Tone in Photoshop. I want to talk about my Photoshop Tone eBook here.…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Expression,  Photojournalism,  Street,  Travel

    Travel Photography | Istanbul | Istiklal Caddesi | Life On The Street

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | Istanbul Turkey | Istiklal Caddesi This is not my latest picture, but a photograph taken last year, November 2009 at Istiklal Caddesi. Located in the Beyoğlu district in the modern part of Istanbul, Istiklal Caddesi (Independence Street) is the most famous pedestrian street in Istanbul. This three kilometer long avenue stretches from Taksim Square to Tünel, the world’s second-oldest subway. This place is visited by nearly 3 million people in a single day over the course of weekends. I’ve already share this very same picture in this blog before but in colors, back then I don’t have the time to play around with different kind of editing…