• Art,  Black and White,  Expression,  Face,  Family,  Life,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Photography | The Elements of Style

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son | Black and White Some people might find it difficult to accept a portrait picture in a square format. When we talk about portrait, we imagine a picture of a person in a vertical format not a square format like what I like to do, like what I’m sharing it here. It’s not really my style because square format have been used long time ago made popular by Hasselblad camera with their classic 6×6 cm square film format. I don’t know why, but I simply love this type of square format. I rarely shoot film these days but I like the look…

  • Black and White,  Emotion,  Expression,  Face,  Family,  Malaysia,  People,  Photoshop,  Portrait,  Portraiture

    The Portrait | Grain and Texture

    Just a quick update of my son portraits from my busy schedule covering Thomas and Uber Cup Finals 2010 here in Kuala Lumpur. Even though the pose is still the same like I always do but I like to captured my son expression, the pose may be the same but the expression will never look the same. About the processing of the top photograph, I like to “Fade” my picture a bit before adding texture. The way I did it is by using three layers, on top of the colored picture or the middle layer is black and white picture of the same image and I reduce the opacity so…

  • Art,  Care,  Emotion,  Expression,  Face,  Family,  Malaysia,  People,  Photoshop,  Portrait,  Portraiture

    Photoshop Tips and Tricks | How To Apply Grain

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Photoshop Tips and Tricks | How To Apply Grain I really have few tips and trick to share with you who keep coming here but due to nature of my works, sometimes I was too busy to write any new post. As you already know, I’m a full time photographer for the Government of Malaysia and as a photographer sometimes I’ve to travel away from my family, sometimes for a day or two and sometimes a week. When I’ve a free time or when I’m not going anywhere, just working here in Kuala Lumpur, it is normal for me to photograph my son whenever time…