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Portrait Photography | The Secret for Getting Razor Sharp Photos With 50 mm Lens
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of Arianna My Daughter | ISO 400 | f/2 | 1/160 | 50 mm “Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode from the snapshot to the decisive moment to multimedia montage, the intent and purpose of photography is to render in visual terms feelings and experiences that often elude the ability of words to describe. In any case, the eyes have it, and the imagination will always soar farther than was expected.” – Ralph Gibson – I’m quite busy this past few days, actually I’m very busy this month,…
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Travel Photography | The Rungus People Of Sabah | Malaysia North Borneo
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | The Rungus People of Sabah | Malaysia North Borneo The Rungus are an ethnic group of Borneo, residing primarily in northern Sabah in the area surrounding Kudat. A sub-group of the Kadazan-Dusun, they have a distinctive language, dress, architecture, customs, and oral literature. Considered one of the most traditional ethnic groups in Sabah, many Rungus live in longhouses, with each family having its own separate quarters off a common hall. At the edge of the communal hall, a well-ventilated platform of split bamboo with outward sloping walls provides a place for socialising and communal work. The Rungus longhouse is quite different from the Murut longhouse.…
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Newborn | Natural Light Photography
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Little Princess With Grandmother | 24mm | ISO 1000 | f/2.8 | 1/40 Photography is about light. The term comes from The Greek word phos, photos – light and graphos – writing. The word photography means writing with light but most photographers claim they are painting with light! This ‘writing with light’ or as us photographers say ‘ painting with light’ was first reputed to have been termed by Sir John Herschel to William Henry Fox Talbot in letter in 1839. Herschel was an English astronomer who also devised the words negative and positive. A lot of his work involved chemistry which was the forerunner of the black and…
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Photography | Photoshop Photo Editing | Before and After
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | Before Editing | Original Unedit Picture © 2009 Wazari Wazir | After Editing With Photoshop | Playing With Color Tone Playing with color tone is not something new, photographers have been playing or experimenting with it since black and white film days. In those days they call it “The Art of Tinting”, they tint their black and white photograph to have some colors and the most famous one is “Sepia Tint” or tone. The process of tinting in the darkroom was a bit time consuming and cumbersome and only skilled person in the darkroom printing can do it well and most of the time the…
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Portrait Photography | Attitude
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | Portrait Photography Usually I don’t do this kind of editing, montage or super imposed photography, I used to like it when I was starting up learning about Photoshop, I like to experiment with new things, it is learning process, I like to do cut and paste in photoshop, taking one picture and put it on top of another, make full used of layers in the Photoshop but after awhile, I get bored and that’s why I just do single editing, I mean, I don’t do super imposed anymore, I just do an enhancement for one single photographed and not making multiple photograph in a single…