• Adventure,  Art,  Family,  Travel

    Photography Tips | How To Handle Low Light Conditions Without Using Flash

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | My Family During Langkawi Island Trip | ISO 1600 – ISO 2000 | Shutter 1/80 – 1/200 Photographers always facing this kind of things, sometimes they just don’t have any other options like, not having a flash, like me. Sometimes using flash is prohibited in certain places and sometimes, yes you can flash but in doing so, will spoil the mood in certain places. In my case I don’t want to use flash and prefer to use whatever light available there. The easiest way to handle low light condition without using flash is to bump up the ISO in your camera. For the photographs above…

  • Family,  Travel

    Family Photography Outing | Black Sand Beach Langkawi

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Family Trip at Langkawi Black Sand Beach Jetty “Photographs are footprints of our minds, mirrors of our lives, reflections from our hearts, frozen memories that we can hold in silent stillness in our hands – forever if we wish. They document not only where we have been, but also point the way to where we might perhaps be heading, whether or not we realize this yet ourselves.”   – Judy Weiser, R.Psych – Actually the main attraction here for most tourist is not this wooden log jetty but the black sand beach located on the left side of this picture. Actually it is not totally black…

  • Art,  Family,  Moment,  Travel

    Family Photography | Once Upon a Time in Langkawi

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Once Upon a Time in Langkawi | Mahsuri Mausoleum © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Once Upon a Time in Langkawi | Mahsuri Mausoleum Both photographs were taken at the same place at Mahsuri House in Langkawi Kedah The top photograph were taken in September 2010, my son HaiQal is three years old then,  and the bottom one is the new one taken this month (June 2014). To be honest I like the old one compared to this new look from photographers point of view. Yes, I know, the old version looks like this house is abandon and not taken care off, compared to the new…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Emotion,  Family,  Life,  Moment,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Portrait | Black and White Photography

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | My Son Playing With Puddle | Langkawi Kedah Some of you might not call this a black and white photograph but just a greyscale photograph. It doesn’t have that kind of deep solid black, just a shade of grey, you are right, this is not super deep rich black and white but that is not my point of this article. I know how to get a deep rich black and white but for this image I prefer it to be like this, a lighter version of black and white. I get a lot of emails asking me, how to know whether some picture will look…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Expression,  Life,  Moment,  Portraiture

    Black and White Portraits Photography

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Black and White Photography Colors are good, colors are great but personally I think when it comes to portrait photography where certain mood or emotion is concern, nothing can beat black and white photography. I’ve done two version of editing for this picture, one is colors but the other one is black and white and  I think monochrome speaks louder, express better. I think black and white convey better for this particular picture. Black and white is classic, black and white is pure, black and white is here to stay for as long as photography is concern. Black and white are very good at eliminating…