By Rex Dolby<\/b><\/p>\n
The Wassenberg Camera Club will be meeting Thursday, August 8 at 7 p.m. at the Wassenberg Art Center, 643 S. Washington St, Van Wert.\u00a0\u201cVegetables\u201d will be the competition theme in prints and slides that evening.<\/p>\n
You might ask, “How do I go about photographing vegetables?”\u00a0Some good places to find\u00a0ideas\u00a0are in a cookbook, seed catalog, or possibly on a menu.\u00a0Basically, it is a still life photo with vegetables being the subject matter.<\/p>\n
You’ll want to select fresh pieces for vibrant color.\u00a0A spritz of water or a wipe of lemon juice may help\u00a0the color\u00a0to last longer. Use a color chart, if needed, to select vegetables that look good together, but don’t possibly suggest a season.\u00a0(Red and green peppers only for example)<\/p>\n
Try to use natural light, such as that by a window, reducing glare on the surfaces.\u00a0A flash unit may wash them out from too much light.\u00a0Since the amount of light coming in a window is not as bright, you’ll need a slower shutter speed to gather the most light and smaller lens opening to increase the depth of field.\u00a0The choice of lens and opening\u00a0will depend on the size of the grouping to be photographed.\u00a0Remember, as you move from a wide-angle lens, to normal, to telephoto, the field of view and depth of field decreases. A tripod becomes necessary when attempting to capture maximum depth of field in low light.\u00a0Using the self-timer will reduce the chances of camera shake. Try different ways to arrange the pieces as well as angles\u00a0to shoot the setup.\u00a0This will help to provide the best final results.<\/p>\n
One good thing, after all that hard work, you may have some of the\u00a0ingredients for a good\u00a0dish or maybe a snack later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Rex Dolby The Wassenberg Camera Club will be meeting Thursday, August 8 at 7 p.m. at the Wassenberg Art Center, 643 S. Washington St, Van Wert.\u00a0\u201cVegetables\u201d will be the competition theme in prints and slides that evening. You might ask, “How do I go about photographing vegetables?”\u00a0Some good places to find\u00a0ideas\u00a0are in a cookbook, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameraclub"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 11:26:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}