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    Photography Tips | The Importance Of Negative Space in Composition

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Daily Life at Bario | Sarawak Robert Capa once said, “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.” It is about getting closer to the subject, get intimate with them, fills the frame , but then, every situation is difference. Sometimes you need to to get a little bit far away from your subject to tell the story better. Sometimes a distance subject, a smaller subject in the frame can makes a powerful looking photograph. Some people who saw this photograph might said that, why don’t I get closer to the man and the dog and just focus on him and the reflections…

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    Photography Tips | Photoshop Editing Secrets

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Original Photograph | Unedited ©  2013 Wazari Wazir | After Edited With Photoshop Master Of Colors Editing Technique | Kota Belud Paddy Field Most people, especially  who have been following me through my photography probably by now, knew that I shoot my photograph in RAW format for most of the times. Why shoot in RAW, very simple, RAW file contain a lot of digital informations or data compared to JPG file. Currently I’m using Canon 5D Mark II full frame body. Normally if I shoot in JPG the file size will be around 5 to 7 MB but if I shoot in RAW format the…

  • Art,  eBook,  Editing,  Moment,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Photography and Photoshop Editing

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Putrajaya Botanical Garden © 2011 Wazari Wazir | (Left) RAW Unedited | (Right) Edited in Photoshop To be honest with you, I hate to write about this topic and I hate it when someone say that a photograph look great because if editing and they tend to forget the photography factor to get the shot, to get it right in the camera. I will write based on my personal experience. Whether you want to edit or not, it’s up o you, it’s your photograph, it’s your work and it’s your masterpiece, you can be purist and stick with a traditional photographic approach or embrace new…

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    Master of Colors eBook | Review By Jeffrey K. Edwards

    © 2011 Jeffrey K. Edwards | Original Photograph © 2011 Jeffrey K. Edwards | After Editing With Master of Colors eBook The internet is an amazing tool for communication. Two weeks ago I was able to “skype” with a colleague in Mozambique about the HIV epidemic they are battling. This week I was in touch with Wazari Wazir, who has become a good friend simply by email, all the way from Malaysia. He is an esteemed photojournalist for the Malaysian government and a freelance photographer/instructor. Wazari has written several ebooks on photography and postprocessing work with photoshop which I have learned much from. His latest ebook, “Master of Colors” is…

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    Photoshop Tutorial Editing eBook | iPhone and iPad User Friendly

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Look Great On iPhone Home Screen © 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Photoshop eBook | iPhone & iPad User Friendly Currently I’ve produce Three Photoshop Tutorial eBook to cater for different people with different interest in Photography and editing, those are Photoshop Tone eBook, Photoshop Texture eBook and Master of Colors eBook. All of them can be viewed easily through iPhone or iPad and with new Apple iBooks apps, it looks quite nice sitting on the iBooks shelf and off-course it looks great on any computer screen. © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Original Photograph Before Editing With The Tone © 2010 Wazari Wazir | After Editing…