{"id":83347,"date":"2017-01-11T14:27:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T19:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=83347"},"modified":"2017-01-13T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T14:21:00","slug":"questions-about-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/01\/11\/questions-about-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions about photography?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Rex Dolby<\/strong><\/p>\n

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An evening shot across Georgia’s Lake Lanier, taken by Rex Dolby.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Van Wert Area Photography Club is again inviting anyone in the community having\u00a0questions about a new camera, using the camera on your smart phone, or questions about photography in general, to bring them to the club’s meeting\u00a0this Thursday,\u00a0January 12, 7 p.m. at 114 S. Race St. \u00a0Feel free to ask any question on these topics and there will be experienced\u00a0photographers on hand to answer them or try to find an answer for you on the net. \u00a0This question and answer session is offered as a service to the community, so there will be no cost or obligation to those who participate.<\/p>\n

One of the questions that may come up is, “How can I get a good sunrise or sunset picture?” \u00a0In no particular order, you have to consider location, timing, sky, and the foreground. Sometimes you’ll be out and about and come across an interesting scene. Ask yourself, “Would this be more impressive in a different season, time of day, or location?” \u00a0They are all tied together so you make a combined judgement based on what you want the outcome of the photo to be. If you’re facing east, it will be a morning shot or west, an evening shot.<\/p>\n

A different location doesn’t mean go elsewhere, but rather to scout the area around where you plan to shoot to discover how you might include more interesting things in the foreground or open up the view to more sky.<\/p>\n

Check the weather forecast. \u00a0A storm approaching or just passed may provide some dramatic cloud formations. \u00a0In such conditions the sky is more interesting and therefore 2\/3 of your composition should be sky. \u00a0If a structure or growth is of more interest, then 2\/3 of the composition should be the ground.<\/p>\n

As for timing, particularly for a sunset, as the\u00a0sun\u00a0approaches the horizon, its illumination of the clouds increases. \u00a0Therefore don’t be too quick to\u00a0pack up\u00a0after the\u00a0sun\u00a0sets. \u00a0Many times\u00a0the lower angle of the\u00a0sun’s rays will produce an exceptional light show on the clouds. \u00a0However, once the\u00a0sun\u00a0has slipped behind a cloudbank the show is pretty much over, unless there’s a slit where it might reappear.<\/p>\n

A graduated neutral density filter may come in handy to tone down the sky without changing the ground exposure if there is a great amount of difference between the brightness of the sky and the ground.<\/p>\n

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By Rex Dolby The Van Wert Area Photography Club is again inviting anyone in the community having\u00a0questions about a new camera, using the camera on your smart phone, or questions about photography in general, to bring them to the club’s meeting\u00a0this Thursday,\u00a0January 12, 7 p.m. at 114 S. Race St. \u00a0Feel free to ask any […]<\/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-83347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameraclub"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 20:01:58","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\/83347","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=83347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}