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Child Portraiture | Extreme Close-Up | Expressive Portraiture
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son | Extreme Close Up | Expressive Portraiture “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough” – Robert Capa – Extreme portrait shot of my son above were taken with my favorite 50mm lens shoot at ISO 200 at n aperture of f2, I just add the grain in Photoshop to make it look like film effect. I rarely shoot my son picture at Higher ISO, unless I don’t have much choice like in the book store for an example where the light is quite dim. This is a crop version from the actual photograph where full head and shoulder were in…
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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…
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Portrait Photography | Expressive Portraiture
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | A Child and His Penguin | Langkawi This is among my favorite picture taken at Langkawi, I know it’s not a picture about Langkawi, I can easily take this picture at home, no need to fly hundreds of kilometers just to get this close up shot. There is a story attached to this picture, there is a story to tell, I took this picture at Tengah Beach Langkawi and then again you can’t see the beach here. We bought the cuddly little penguin at Langkawi Underwater World after we finish the tour, I mean visiting the underwater world. My son like to watch Madagascar the…