• Moment,  Portrait

    Natural Light Portrait | Light And Shadows

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Daughter | Natural Light Photography | Arianna You don’t really need an expensive studio lighting to get a great portrait. Yes studio lighting has its place but if you are casual photographer, just wanted to take a photograph of your own family, then I think you better learn on how to make full use of natural light. People often asked me, whether I’ve a studio inside my house, while kind of lighting equipment that I use to get a great portrait, whether I’ve used any diffuser or not. The truth is, I don’t have any of it, most of the photographs of…

  • Art,  Family,  Moment

    Newborn Photography | Black Against Black Background

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Daughter This is just a simple set up that I like to do with my newborn, previously I’ve done it to my son HaiQal and Raphael when they were few weeks old. Anyway this is just a simple set up. For a start we need to get a dark background and for this purpose I use a black velvet, this one is 4 meter long but three meter long will do, I prefer black velvet because it is not that expensive and it can absorb light, so they will produced deep black. My wife wearing a deep blue long sleeve T-shirt with deep…

  • Art,  Book,  Editing,  Family,  Moment,  People

    Basic Photography | Why Using High ISO Does Matter

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Book Worm | 24mm | ISO 1600 | f/2.8 | 1/25 I believe that most of of you knows that the best ISO is always the lowest ISO like ISO 100 and below and using High ISO should be always your last resort when using Low ISO can’t do the job for whatever reason. As many of you already know, ISO number refer to the sensitivity of the sensor towards the light, the higher the ISO, the more sensitive the sensor towards the light and this will give you the advantage to use higher shutter speed compared to if you use Lower ISO which will…

  • 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,  Emotion,  Family,  Love,  Malaysia,  Moment,  Portrait

    Newborn Photography Tips | Raphael | Precious Gift

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Newborn Photography | My Son, Raphael I’ve done this same set up with my first son HaiQal, almost exactly the same, I like to show how small my son in relation with the size of my wife so when he grows up, he will know how small he is and how much he have grown. Talking about sense of scale here so the viewers will get the idea about the size of my son Raphael. Basically tips for taking newborn picture is like normal photography, I’m not an expert on this one but I can share what I like to do, the thing that we…