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A Portrait of My Children | Black and White Portraiture
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait of Seven Year Old HaiQal © 2014 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait of Three Year Old Raphael © 2014 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait of One Year Old Arianna Wearing Russian Ushanka It’s been quite awhile since I posted a black and white portraiture of my children. Lately I like colour photography more than black and white, maybe I want to remember the colours of their clothing and the colours of their environment. Famous Canadian photographer Ted Grant once said that “When you photograph people in colour, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls!”. I…
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Family Photography | Brothers
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Raphael and HaiQal Playing Together I’ve been very busy lately, so even though I’ve thousand of a photograph to shared with you, hardly any of them made it into my blog. Yes, I do know there are others photographers who are hundred times busier than me but still manage to put few words or entry into their blog, to be honest with you, I really envy with them. Anyway this is among the latest photograph of my children taken just outside my house. What attract me to take this photographs is not just to captured the moment they played together but because I like the…
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Portrait Photography | The Secret for Getting Razor Sharp Photos With 50 mm Lens
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of Arianna My Daughter | ISO 400 | f/2 | 1/160 | 50 mm “Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode from the snapshot to the decisive moment to multimedia montage, the intent and purpose of photography is to render in visual terms feelings and experiences that often elude the ability of words to describe. In any case, the eyes have it, and the imagination will always soar farther than was expected.” – Ralph Gibson – I’m quite busy this past few days, actually I’m very busy this month,…
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Photography Tips | Children Close Up Portraiture
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Close Up Portraiture of My Daughter Arianna “I always felt like the close-up portrait was the most essential, the most valid picture out there, it was just all about the person, not about their clothes, not about the environment, not about their background, not giving any hints to their social status.” – Martin Schoeller – Lately I like to do some kind of environmental portraiture shot for my family picture, I like to have some kind of background story about whereabout my subject, the places they have been to, for an instance, but in doing so, the portrait, I mean the face of the person in…
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Photography Tips | How To Get Beautiful Bokeh
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Daughter Arianna “Bokeh” has evolved somewhat from its original meaning. Bokeh is now commonly used to refer to blurred lights or shapes within an image, where as, the term more accurately describes the aesthetic quality of the out-of-focus area of a photograph. Therefore, it is possible to have ‘good’ or ‘bad’ bokeh, (although that is purely subjective), but in essence, it’s all about the area of an image that falls outside the depth-of-field. In photography, the term bokeh represents the quality of the magical out-of-focus blur that makes it look like the subject is isolated from the background. It is visually appealing for…