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Name: The End of Qanso / Saida - Lebanon
Membership number: 42
Age: 17 years
Occupation: Baccalaureate student - first section
Equipment: a camera decked out with lenses

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What can be said about your technical capabilities is that you are good at using the machine, lens aperture, and other basic operations, and the ability in artistic production is not far from you.. But you must first search for subjects other than the sun, despite stressing the importance of the images sent by you and their color range.

But the subject of sunset and sunrise has become a traditional subject for all photography enthusiasts, because of the scenes that produce in this field of light impressions full of colors to be transformed into photographic paintings, by focusing on the emotional sense.
But if we look around us, we will find many topics that are suitable for the social environment, and sometimes with some types of portraiture, distinctive art, antiquities, urban scenes, nature, including flowers and trees, especially since the south is full of all these topics that await your productions about them.
With my wishes for further progress -


Name: Akram Mustafa Al-Zaatari / Beirut - Lebanon Membership No.: 43
Age: 17 years
Occupation: Engineering student at the American University of Beirut
Equipment: camera, Kiev - two lenses 135 mm and 35 mm

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First of all, we congratulate you on the image of the bombing during the Israeli invasion of Sidon, for what these images require in terms of perception, strength of observation and coherence. If you had a tele lens, you would be able to get a wonderful close-up. As for the second image, it invites us to emphasize the necessity of the photographer's artistic sensitivity to know what he wants and how he can get it. on what he wants.
It was possible to capture part of the scene with a snapshot
Distinctive art, as not everything we see must be captured as it is to achieve the artistic image.
We say this with our full appreciation of your capabilities, especially since we cannot judge your ability and form a comprehensive idea of ​​your capabilities just by seeing this small amount of your production - only two pictures.
But our great hope is that you will make remarkable progress, and we are waiting for your new works, so that the evaluation will be more comprehensive.


Name: Ali Hadi, Saudi Arabia
Membership number 44
Age 23 years
Occupation « Blase -
Equipment (Nikon F-3) with all lenses and accessories, and an Olympus O110 camera with all supplies as well.


* Friend Ali We do not have any comments on your photos. You are good at using the machine and you have clarity and vision. It remains to embody the scene into an artistic shot that needs more focus and reading while following the style of nature photography. A final indication that we would have preferred your pictures to be from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia -


My name is Jamal Ahmad Shalak, Lebanon - Batroun
Membership number 45
Age 25 years
Occupation: Refrigeration, air conditioning and electrical engineer
The equipment is a set of lenses with a camera (Ricoh - XR - S - Zoom 35-70 m.m.).


* Friend Jamal, the pictures sent by you are good in terms of shutter speed and colors. What you lack is a little focus on the frame and better defining the angle for taking the view, in order to achieve the aesthetic dimension of the image. I hope you progress towards a distinguished artistic production.


My name is Fouad Hassan Salem Al-Yemeni, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arar
Membership number 46
Age 33 years
Occupation photographer in the island studio.
The equipment is a camera - Mamiya, and a camera - Canon » automatic with a set of lenses and filters

* Friend Fouad
We publish here our observations about your photographic production. As for the problems that you encounter in practice, you will find a full explanation about them within a section for each question, an answer.
As for the picture of the Saudi girl, it is good, and you do not need any comment except to be careful to avoid the artificial position of your subject so that the subject is less rigid and more mobile, as it is preferable in portraits of this kind to use background or side lighting in addition to the facing lighting in the image of the young man. It is preferable to use a dark background within This quality of photography, the black background gives more clarity to the face and other details.
In general, there is nothing wrong with your production, with the hope that you will continue to read and learn the artistic culture, which is considered one of the necessities for the photographer to ensure continuity in an advanced manner.