{"id":60251,"date":"2015-01-28T15:16:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T20:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=60251"},"modified":"2015-01-28T15:16:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T20:16:27","slug":"60251","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/01\/28\/60251\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Rex Dolby<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60252\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/01\/60251\/photo-club-jan-28\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60252\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60252 \" style=\"border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" alt=\"Photograph of a summer moon with a Rule of Thirds grid superimposed on it. (Photo: Rex Dolby)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/PHOTO-CLUB-JAN-28.jpg\" width=\"330\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph of a summer moon with a Rule of Thirds grid superimposed on it. (Photo: Rex Dolby)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After the winter weather forced the cancellation of the regular meeting on Jan. 8, the Van Wert Area Photography Club met Thursday, Jan. 22, at the Elks Lodge\u00a0along the Van Wert-Decatur Road, just west of the city limits.\u00a0 Vice President Stuart Jewett obtained the site, which provided tables, chairs, an impressive projection surface, and even food and beverage service.\u00a0 The club\u00a0greatly appreciates the Elks providing such a suitable\u00a0area\u00a0for our meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The teaching topic was the Rule of Thirds.\u00a0 This deals with a grid dividing the scene\u00a0by two equally spaced horizontal and vertical lines that create three horizontal and vertical spaces. Ideally, lights and darks, or sky and horizon would be located along a horizontal line and the subject or dominant objects would be placed along a vertical line, or at one of the intersections.<\/p>\n<p>Members were invited to bring one of their images that illustrated the use of the rule on a jump drive.\u00a0 Tracy Sterling loaded each image onto the laptop for projection so all could easily see and comment. Nearly 73 percent of the members provided images, and a lot of good comments were offered.\u00a0 One that stood out was a reminder to the group not to shoot too tightly around the subject so\u00a0that printing on\u00a0the standard 4&#215;6, 8&#215;10, or 11&#215;14 inch papers would\u00a0not\u00a0create any loss of the subject due to the difference in the image proportions and the paper proportions.<\/p>\n<p>Another comment related to portrait posing.\u00a0 If the subject&#8217;s hands are brought up to the chin line, males should fold their hands to look more like a fist and ladies show more of the edge of the hand to look more feminine.<\/p>\n<p>Sterling had dramatic shot of a bald eagle making a sharp left turn.\u00a0 Its wings were fully extended straight up and down, tail feathers splayed, and its head turned. The point is that sometimes you don&#8217;t have time to calculate.\u00a0 Get the shot and then see what you can do with it later.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion then turned to possible meeting places, subjects for future discussion and officers for the year. It was decided that for now, the present officers would continue serve and the club&#8217;s next meeting will be held\u00a0at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12,\u00a0at the Elks. Leading lines will be the topic for discussion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rex Dolby After the winter weather forced the cancellation of the regular meeting on Jan. 8, the Van Wert Area Photography Club met Thursday, Jan. 22, at the Elks Lodge\u00a0along the Van Wert-Decatur Road, just west of the city limits.\u00a0 Vice President Stuart Jewett obtained the site, which provided tables, chairs, an impressive projection [&hellip;]<\/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-60251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameraclub"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 04:12:01","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\/60251","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=60251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}