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Basic Photography | Creative Photography by Using Slow Shutter Speed
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | Pulau Ketam | ISO 100 | Aperture f/10 | 1/20 Sometimes we need to think outside of the box to get a creative photograph, I was shooting this young lady with a group of a photographers at Pulau Ketam or Crab Island in Selangor, I just wanted to get a different shot, I don’t want standard static boring shot, I want to add some drama to my picture, so I decided to ask her to spin the umbrella, since the umbrella is colorful, I think it will look great if it was spinning. The problem is that, we are in a very bright area, very…
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Action Photography | Slow Shutter Speed For Sense of Movement
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | Belly Dancer | Moroccan Pavilion Putrajaya Have you ever seen a whirling dervishes? It is one of the symbol of Turkey tourism. Sufi whirling (or Sufi spinning), is a physically active meditation which originated among Sufis especially in Konya Turkey. If you have ever seen those “Whirling Dervishes” picture on the internet or in the magazine, most of the time you will see a a blurred kind of a picture, it is rare to see a whirling dervishes picture in a static movement, usually a photographer will use a slow shutter speed to captured that beautiful dancers in motion, captured their sense of movement gracefully. Actually when…