{"id":87000,"date":"2017-04-26T14:26:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T19:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=87000"},"modified":"2017-04-26T14:26:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T19:26:41","slug":"mood-is-the-heart-of-photo-subjects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/04\/26\/mood-is-the-heart-of-photo-subjects\/","title":{"rendered":"Mood is the heart of photo subjects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Rex Dolby<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In their book, Photography\u00a0 <em>The Amateur&#8217;s Guide to Better Pictures, A Golden Handbook,<\/em> written by H.S. Zim and R.W. Burnett and published in 1956 by Simon &amp; Schuster, the authors tell us that scenes and vistas should create a mood. They say that the mood itself is the heart of your subject, whatever the view. Ask yourself\u00a0what it is that makes you want this picture, then analyze your feelings and work to get the picture that catches that mood.<\/p>\n<p>They tell us to study the scene, then move around until you get the best angle, the best placement of the subject, and the most effective pattern of light and shadow.\u00a0 Include foreground details that will give your picture depth.<\/p>\n<p>For mood or dramatic effect, try taking pictures in fog, rain, sleet, hail, snow, or wind.\u00a0 Well, at least consider it.<\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert Area Photography Club&#8217;s next regularly scheduled meeting will be Thursday, May 11, at 7 p.m. at 114 S. Race St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rex Dolby In their book, Photography\u00a0 The Amateur&#8217;s Guide to Better Pictures, A Golden Handbook, written by H.S. Zim and R.W. Burnett and published in 1956 by Simon &amp; Schuster, the authors tell us that scenes and vistas should create a mood. They say that the mood itself is the heart of your subject, [&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-87000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameraclub"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 09:33:21","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\/87000","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=87000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}