• Art,  Editing,  Photoshop

    Photoshop Tips | How To Create Custom Borders and Frames in Photoshop

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Raphael at Kinokuniya Bookstore There are many ways to create a custom borders or frames in Photoshop and what I’m trying to share it here is among the few ways that you can do it in Photoshop. Here I will show you how to get just the same border like the picture above. © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Change Your Background and Foreground Color STEP 1 : Before we get start, please make sure that you change the background color into white because we wanted a white border to frame our picture, yes you can have any color you like but for this tutorial and…

  • Art,  Family,  Portrait

    Basic Photography Tips | Creative Use of Depth of Field

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Creative Use of Depth of Field | Motherhood | f1.8 | 1/640 | 50mm Lens Basically Depth of field (DOF) is the amount of your image that’s in focus. It is also refers to the range of distance that appears acceptably sharp. It varies depending on lens type, aperture and focusing distance. Depth of field (DOF) also is the distance in front and beyond the object that is in focus. Generally speaking also, if we want to  get a greater Depth of Field, which is to have sharp image from foreground to background, you need to use smaller aperture like f8 and above to get everything sharp or…

  • Art,  Care,  Culture,  East,  Emotion,  Expression,  Face,  Family,  Malaysia,  Melayu,  Moment,  People,  Photoshop,  Portrait,  Portraiture,  Tender

    HaiQal | Backlighting

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | Backlighting Portraiture | My Family When I start as a PRESS Photographers, among few things that bother photographers is “Backlighting”, whether it came from artificial light source or from natural light, sometimes PRESS photographers will shout or ask politely to their subject to move here and there to block the “backlighting”. Backlighting can cause “flare” that make our subject unclear especially on their face. Sometimes photographers will use flash and most of the times they do use flash to bring back light onto their subject face so it does not appear to be dark and it is true that metering is tricky for backlighting. To…

  • Art,  Assignment,  People,  Portrait,  Portraiture,  Portraiture Workshops,  Workshops Photoshop

    Portraiture Workshops | Kota Kinabalu

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | Spylens Studio Photography and Photoshop Workshops | Kota Kinabalu Sabah This is my first Portraiture Photoshop Workshops in Kota Kinabalu Sabah, a million thanks to my friend Roslee Karim for organizing this workshops under his company Spylens Studio. I was at Kota Kinabalu two days before the workshops just to make sure everything was in working order, making final preparation in Spylens Studio where the editing class will take place. This is also the first time my photoshop editing class taking place in the studio, previous workshops was in the hotel seminar room and not to mention my “Mini Workshops” taking place in “Coffee Shop”…