{"id":7746,"date":"2011-05-11T13:14:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T18:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=7746"},"modified":"2011-05-11T23:08:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T04:08:53","slug":"tips-and-tricks-for-photographing-flags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/05\/11\/tips-and-tricks-for-photographing-flags\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips and tricks for photographing flags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Rex Dolby<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><!-- #wmMessage p { margin: 0pt; } --><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Flags&#8221; is the competition theme for the Wassenberg Camera Club&#8217;s next  meeting Thursday, May 12, at 7 p.m. at the Wassenberg Art Center, 643 S.  Washington St., Van Wert, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Although our national flag  is probably the first one we think of, the list of other flags is  pretty impressive.\u00a0 Consider the flags of all the organizations and  companies that exist,\u00a0the flags of the schools, colleges &amp;  universities, the flags of professional sports teams, the specialized  flags used at motor speedways and in other sports,\u00a0the flags of military  units, and the flags that naval craft may use to communicate to name a  few.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the situations listed above may be difficult for  the average photographer to capture, but a lot of them are within our  reach.\u00a0 It takes about a 20 mph wind to stand an average sized\u00a0flag out  straight.\u00a0 Try to position yourself where the direction of the wind and  angle of the sun will give you a good shot.\u00a0 Since the flag is to be  displayed with the blue field at the top left, try to set up your shot  so that the flag is waving in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>Placing yourself  where the sun is in back of the flag may result in an interesting  picture, depending on the cloth and thickness of the flag.\u00a0\u00a0Study the  flag.\u00a0 Sometime wind gusts, or the person waving the flag, will cause  the flag to more open than at other times.\u00a0 If a person is waving the  flag in a left to right motion, try to catch them at the end of their  wave before they start back the other way.\u00a0 Their hand and\u00a0 arm will be  nearly still which will reduce the chance for a blurred picture.<\/p>\n<p>National holidays and at times of national feelings such as the when  the 3 firemen raised the flag at ground zero after the 9-11 attack will  provide many opportunities to photograph our nation&#8217;s\u00a0flag against a  great sky at any hour of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rex Dolby &#8220;Flags&#8221; is the competition theme for the Wassenberg Camera Club&#8217;s next meeting Thursday, May 12, at 7 p.m. at the Wassenberg Art Center, 643 S. Washington St., Van Wert, Ohio. Although our national flag is probably the first one we think of, the list of other flags is pretty impressive.\u00a0 Consider the [&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-7746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameraclub"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 19:01:25","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\/7746","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=7746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}