{"id":60498,"date":"2015-02-04T14:40:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T19:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=60498"},"modified":"2015-02-04T14:40:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T19:40:01","slug":"photo-club-will-discuss-leading-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/02\/04\/photo-club-will-discuss-leading-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo club will discuss Leading Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_60499\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60499\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Central-Mutual-Van-Wert1024x683.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60499 \" style=\"border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" alt=\"This picture shows the use of leading lines to guide the eye into the picture to the focal point.  (Photo by Rex Dolby.)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Central-Mutual-Van-Wert1024x683.jpg\" width=\"330\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This picture shows the use of leading lines to guide the eye into the picture to the focal point. (Photo by Rex Dolby.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>By Rex Dolby<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert Area Photography Club will meet at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12, at the Elks Lodge, located\u00a0along the Van Wert-Decatur Road, just west of the city limits.\u00a0 Leading Lines will be the topic of discussion that evening.\u00a0 All who attend are invited to bring an image on a jump drive that illustrates the topic. If this isn&#8217;t an option for you, bring a photo.<\/p>\n<p>A leading line guides the eye into the picture to the main point of interest. This point, area, or subject holds the viewer&#8217;s attention in the picture, and without it, the eye would continue to follow the line out of the picture.<\/p>\n<p>This line may be a horizontal, vertical, or slanted straight line, or a curved line\u00a0in a shape such\u00a0as a\u00a0C, S, or a meandering way.<\/p>\n<p>Generally, a leading line will start in the lower left corner, but not in the exact corner, and continue upward to the point of interest.<\/p>\n<p>Good sources for leading lines would include such things as:\u00a0 a fence, pier, bridge, road, river, guard rail, path, bent tree, fallen log, railroad tracks, sidewalk, power lines and architectural details.\u00a0 This list is only a hint of where to look for leading lines that will\u00a0add interest to your composition, and the more you observe, the more your list will grow.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors are always welcome and there&#8217;s no obligation to join, so mark your calendars for 7 p.m., Feb. 12, at the Elks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rex Dolby The Van Wert Area Photography Club will meet at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12, at the Elks Lodge, located\u00a0along the Van Wert-Decatur Road, just west of the city limits.\u00a0 Leading Lines will be the topic of discussion that evening.\u00a0 All who attend are invited to bring an image on a jump [&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-60498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameraclub"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 17:36:26","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\/60498","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=60498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}