• Photojournalism,  Reportage Photography,  Travel

    The Photographers | Imperial Palace Tokyo Japan | Behind The Scene

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | The Photographers at The Imperial Palace | Tokyo Japan Just wanted to share with you guys some random shots that I took inside The Imperial Palace Tokyo, before we were release to get into our position for the welcoming ceremony for The Yang di-Pertuan Agong (Malaysian King) Official Visit to Japan recently. Before we enter the Imperial Palace compound, we were scanned throughly, including our camera, where they (the security) tell us to take a few blank shot wit our camera to prove to them that they are really a genuine camera and not a weapon, each time when we have an assignment here, inside…

  • Art,  Travel

    Master Black and White Photoshop Editing

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Akasaka Place | Tokyo | Original Photograph © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Variety of Black and White and Sepia Editing If you have been following me all this while, you will noticed that I love doing black and white Photoshop editing, especially for my sons picture. Actually the method of my editing also can be applied to a wide range of subjects, not necessarily for portrait, you can also use it for landscape and architectural photograph like the photograph above. There are many ways to turn your picture into black and white in Photoshop and I’ve try most of the technique but the most important…

  • Art,  Travel

    Once Upon a Time in Tokyo | Imperial Palace Guard

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Imperial Palace Guard | Tokyo Japan While waiting outside The Imperial Palace for the State Banquet to finished, I took a photograph of this great looking Imperial Palace Guard, it was quite dark here but what attracted me to photograph this man is I that, like the quality of light that falls on this man face. I’ve to increased the ISO to 4000 to get this shot with 24-70mm, zoom at 70mm and using f/2.8. With that EXIF Data, you can imagined how dark the place is. I can’t change my position because there is another photographers on my left and right hand side, waiting…

  • Art,  Travel

    Travel Photography | Tokyo Skytree

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Tokyo Skytree | Japan The height of the TOKYO SKYTREE was originally specified at approximately 610m in the original project. However, it was planned from the beginning to be the world’s tallest free-standing broadcasting tower. After careful discussion and research on high-rise buildings that are being built around the world, it was finally decided on 634m, to become the tallest free-standing broadcasting tower in the world. Thus, the 634m-high TOKYO SKYTREE was recognized by the Guinness World Records Company on November 17, 2011 as the tallest tower in the world. The decision on the figure “634” for the height was based on the concept of…