• Art,  Family,  Moment,  Portrait

    Tips For Family Portrait Photography | Keep it Simple

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | My Family Photography Outing | Hulu Langat Selangor When it comes to my family portrait photography, I like to keep it simple, so that the eyes will be drawn towards the main subject, which in this case is my family. Among the best kept secret in portrait photography especially is to keep it simple, meaning if we wanted to photograph someone, chose a plain background, with less distracting elements. That’s why in the old days majority of portrait photography were taken inside the studio, where there is only the subject and plain background. Nowadays people like their picture taken outdoors, with nature or any environment…

  • Art,  Family,  Moment

    Basic Photography | Tips For Natural Light Photography

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Newborn Photography | My Son Raphael | 50mm | ISO 200 | f/2.0 | 1/1600 It is no secret that I use natural light for most of my son pictures, I don’t like using flash when it comes to photographing my son, I like to keep it natural and even though I know that flash can help me in certain situation when the lighting is bad, I choose not to use it. I take picture of my son just for my family, I don’t do business taking picture of other people children. So I can choose when to shoot and when not to shoot, when…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Malaysia,  Photoshop,  Travel

    Black and White Photography Tips

    © 2007 Wazari Wazir  | Black and White Photography Please don’t be surprise, you are still at my blog, wazari wazir blog, I know it may come to most of you as a surprise when you see this kind of a picture, a pebbles, usually I don’t post this kind of a picture, to those of you who are familiar with my style, knows that I like to shoot portrait and this still life shot is not something that you would expect in my blog, the reason is, I want to share with you some of the secret recipe of great black and white photographs. I took the  picture above…

  • Art,  Emotion,  Expression,  Face,  Life,  Malaysia,  Moment,  Photoshop,  Portrait,  Portraiture

    Portraiture | Simplify | Watch The Background

    A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer. ( Wikipedia ) When shooting portrait, I like to keep my background simple, less distraction so the viewers can concentrate on my subject without any distraction.…

  • Art,  Care,  Emotion,  Expression,  Face,  Life,  Light,  Malaysia,  Moment,  People,  Portrait,  Portraiture,  Travel

    Portraiture | In The Eyes of a Stranger

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Gabai Gabai is well known among Kuala Lumpur people because of its waterfall, Sungai Gabai Waterfall to be exact, usually this place will be pack with people each and every weekend, just less than an hour from the heart of Kuala Lumpur to get here. Just a short drive from hustling and bustling of a city centre to get some peace, to get close to nature. But here I take a detour, actually it is the same way to get to the waterfall but I choose a different path, I choose to go to Gabai Orang Asli village there, instead of going straight, we take…