• Art,  Black and White,  Family

    Newborn Photography Tips | How To Get a Black Background

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | My Daughter Arianna | 50 mm | ISO 200 | 1/80 | F/2.8 This is among my favourite pose for my little baby, I’ve done similar pose for my my sons HaiQal and Raphael when they were few weeks old and this time it’s for my daughter Arianna. A lot of my friends had asked me on how I did this photograph, actually it was pretty simply, you don’t need expensive studio lighting, you don’t even need a flash because I’m using a natural late afternoon light here. But off-course you need some other materials other than your DLSR and I believe those of you…

  • Art,  Expression,  Life,  Moment,  Portraiture

    Portrait Photography | The Power of Simplicity

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Portrait Photography | Simplicity “The Ability to Simplify Means to Eliminate the Unnecessary so that the Necessary May Speak.” | Hans Hofmann When it comes to portrait photography, I like to keep things simple, the first thing that I will pay a very close attention is the background, I will try to find a clean, uncluttered background for my subject. This is vital, this is very important because background can make or break a portrait shot, I don’t want my background to take away viewers attention from the main subject. The background not only have to be clean but the color of the background is…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Hitam Putih,  Life,  Light,  Malaysia,  Portrait,  Portraiture,  Travel

    Portraiture | Portrait of A Dancer

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of a Dancer People often ask me, how I did my black and white editing, actually that was not an easy answer for me, one thing that maybe most newbie doesn’t know is that, not every picture will look great when we convert it into black and white, there are a picture that work wonder in colors but will be lifeless if we convert it into black and white. One thing that we must keep in mind is that, whatever we do, I mean in term of photography and in this case portraiture, just keep it simple, background play a very important role here…