“Moving Water” challenges club

By Rex Dolby

The Wassenberg Camera Club met Thursday, May 8, at the Wassenberg Art Center. Moving Water was the competition theme in prints and slides that evening. Joe Schramm won the print division with a fine photo taken in the Sidney city park. Tracy Sterling’s slide of the falls in West Milton won the slide division.

The club welcomed visitors Cheryl Knost of Cridersville and Cory Snyder of Convoy and thanks Shirley Soldner of Van Wert for her gift of a Fuji Discovery 975 Zoom film camera, which has a 35-80mm lens.

Following Karl Gribler’s treasurer’s report, club secretary, Rex Dolby closed the meeting with an illustrated presentation on Composition As It Relates to Photography. Dolby said basically, everything you see inside the four sides of your viewfinder when you trip the shutter, is your composition. It should convey a singular, understandable purpose. He then went on to itemize the various elements that either contribute to the composition of a good photograph or detract from it. These included: foregrounds and backgrounds, linear and aerial perspective, formal and informal balance, shadows and light, harmony, lines, and motion.

The club’s next meeting will be Thursday May 22 at 7 p.m., at the Art Center. We will have a free workshop open to the public entitled, Working with Digital Image Files and led by President Chris Wilson. It will include: best practices for transferring and storing images on your computer, file management, adding keywords and tags to your images for easy retrieval, file
sizing, folder names, file names and emailing digital images.

Wassenberg Camera Club meetings are open to anyone who has an interest in photography. If you have any questions regarding our camera club, classes or programs or would like to sign up please call the Wassenberg Art Center at: 419.238.6837, email: info@wassenbergartcenter.org or register for classes online at: wassenbergartcenter.org. Hours during exhibits are: Tuesday through Sunday 1–5 p.m. The Wassenberg Art Center is located at 214 South Washington Street in Van Wert.