نادي الهواة .. مجلة فن التصوير اللبنانية _ ع٢٢

Amateur club

Name: Abdullah bin Ali Al-Dubaikhi / Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Al-Khobar
Membership number: 81
Age: 24 years.
Profession: student
Equipment: Minolta XG1 camera with all necessary equipment.

* Friend Abdullah
You have a wonderful sense of photography, and your artistic angle is complete, and the capture technology in all its stages came to express the power of detail and the advance sense of the scene.
With our congratulations, hoping to start more and more to pass the stage of the hobby and to form a vision of your own ..


Name: Ahmed Al-Loulahi / Jordan - Jerash
Membership number: 82
Age: 25 years.
Occupation: heavy equipment driver
Equipment: decorated - and Bashka

* Friend Ahmed
You have good visual ideas, but ideas alone are not enough. You have to photograph, then see the error in it, correct it, and learn from your trade.
Try to specify what you want, the face or the body, and any part of the general view, with a definition of the image frame. And its limits.
Kadraj is very important and is the basis, more than taking several pictures of one scene, then compare the difference in order to reach a specific angle of your own and a convincing idea. We advise you to read and watch as many Arab and foreign pictures and magazines as possible.


Name: Abdul Ghaffar Abdullah Al-Mutawa / Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Saihat.
Membership number: 83
Age: 15 years.
Occupation is a student.
Equipment: Camera - Canon » 1.A.S.- A.155 camera and Minolta », camera and Bashka. .

* The friend Abdul Ghaffar
There is no doubt that you think carefully about the image before taking it. This is what appeared from your photos, which fully confirmed what you wanted through them.
Your photos are evidence of a very high level of technical knowledge. The color is thoughtful and elaborate, and the frame is carefully occupied. Hence, we affirm that an important future awaits you in the world of photography.
We congratulate you, my friend, especially since you are not yet fifteen years old.
We would like to see some of your black and white photos next time, and we would like you to continue with the same enthusiasm and to read and educate yourself by constantly looking at magazines and books interested in photography while following up on photographic exhibitions -


Name: Saleh Zeno / Syria - Aleppo -
Membership number: 84
Age: 22 years
Occupation: Student at the Faculty of Economics and Commerce
Equipment: Zenith camera (12C), Practica (EE2), and a set of lenses and filters.

* A good friend
There is nothing wrong with the result you have reached, especially since you have ideas that you are trying to translate.
There remains before you the stage of setting the frame, and that is before shooting, in the sense of studying the idea and developing its weak points before shooting.
An example of this is that the shot of the hand is an expressive image, and its idea is strong, but it was preferable to delete the white background and focus on the hand and dirt only to bring out the idea in its strong form -

Name: Musan Al-Rifai / Aleppo - Syria.
Membership number: 85.
Age: 21 years.
Occupation: Karnak Transport and Tourism Company
Equipment: (5 - Kiev) with four lenses

* A friend is safe.
You have a good camera, but as we always emphasize, behind every beautiful picture stands the photographer's eye, not the equipment that is no more than a means to reach the required vision.
The first picture you have is wonderful and has good artistic contents, but the composition of the frame is incorrect, as you deleted an important part of the picture at the expense of the sky, while what is required is the opposite.
As for the second image, we do not advise you to do works of its kind, because it is devoid of any aesthetic content, and the frame here is not desirable at all. Adopt the first method and you will reach better results -


Name: Faisal Kaoud / Beirut
Membership number: 86.
Age: 30 years
Occupation: printing press
Equipment: a Pentax camera, with a 35mm lens and another 135mm lens, and a number of filters

* Friend Faisal
It is not easy to take a picture of a child up close and with such clarity. Nevertheless, we congratulate you.. It is a good attempt, but an important one.
We wish the footage had been taken in a different way and from a different location, perhaps it would have achieved better results. Continue, my friend, you have an artistic sense and you must support it with experience and knowledge.

Name: Shafiq Ghandour / Lebanon - Beirut
Membership number: 87
Age: 21 years.
Profession: student
Equipment: RICOH. KR. 10. Super

* Friend Shafiq
There is a clear courage in your photos, by trying to focus or be determined in highlighting what you want to say.
We congratulate you on the expertise and technology that your photos represent, and there is no doubt that you are at a high level of photographic culture, and special congratulations on your self-confidence, because what you wanted from your photos has been achieved. The journey of photography is long.