{"id":85768,"date":"2017-03-29T14:38:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T19:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=85768"},"modified":"2017-03-29T14:38:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T19:38:32","slug":"competition-subject-spotlights-a-necessity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/03\/29\/competition-subject-spotlights-a-necessity\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition subject spotlights a necessity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Rex Dolby<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert Area Photography Club\u2019s next regularly scheduled meeting will be on Thursday, April 13, 7 p.m. at 114 S. Race St.\u00a0 Toilets (outhouses, portajohns and the like) will be the competition theme.<\/p>\n<p>You\u00a0just had to have been there to comprehend how the theme was selected.\u00a0 It\u00a0will be interesting to see what is submitted.<\/p>\n<p>Changing thoughts, you should have a purpose for the image prior to releasing a shutter.\u00a0 Is it to express yourself, please those who view the image, or satisfy a client?<\/p>\n<p>Does it capture an event, a significant moment in time, or something from the past? Will this image inform, inspire to action, or evoke an intended emotion?\u00a0 Yes.<\/p>\n<p>Your photograph can do any of that-if you shoot with a purpose!<\/p>\n<p>Some photographers feel that no image should be improved in the darkroom or with an editing program.\u00a0 It should all be done in the camera.\u00a0 But how is it different to reposition yourself before the shot to eliminate a distracting feature in the foreground or background or to simply crop it out postproduction?\u00a0 It goes back to your philosophy of photography and the purpose for the photo.<\/p>\n<p>Other photographers, such as Ansel Adams, hold different views of photography.\u00a0 Adams is quoted as saying,\u00a0 \u201cThe negative is the equivalent of the composer\u2019s score, and the print is the performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0also said, \u201cPhotography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas.\u00a0 It\u2019s a creative art.\u201d\u00a0 Those shooting with his philosophy may do it for a different purpose, but regardless of what your definition of photography might be, begin each photo with a purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rex Dolby The Van Wert Area Photography Club\u2019s next regularly scheduled meeting will be on Thursday, April 13, 7 p.m. at 114 S. Race St.\u00a0 Toilets (outhouses, portajohns and the like) will be the competition theme. You\u00a0just had to have been there to comprehend how the theme was selected.\u00a0 It\u00a0will be interesting to see [&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-85768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameraclub"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 00:55:13","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\/85768","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=85768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}