Shoot With Me
The purpose of the Shoot With Me (SWM) is to bring old and new members together, to share learning and to get members out shooting. The idea is that some of the members (between 12 and 16) volunteer to lead a small group of fellow photographers in a project of the leaders choice.
(The project could be anything. Portraits, Still Life, Landscape, Seascape, Silhouettes, Macro, Musicians, Pets, Killiney Bay, Reflections … The list is endless.)
SWM May 2017 – Drogheda Port
Drogheda offers lots of photo-opps in a very small space, from medieval structure to industrial and Victorian viaducts and a river with widely varying tidal water levels. It rained a lot which made for challenging photography, but we did bump into local camera club...
SWM May 2017 – Docklands Walk
This outing was a 'stroll with me' around the ever changing Docklands area. We started off at the 3Arena and strolled down as far as the Samuel Beckett Bridge, taking in the rapidly changing streetscape in the area. A very enjoyable morning of good company and a...
SWM May 2017 – Burning Steel Wool
We got together to try Steel Wool Photography - by burning Steel wool and spinning it around it creates some very dramatic results. We had a great outing and were very happy with our panel. Click on an image below to enlarge: [justified_image_grid...
SWM December 2016 – Light Painting
The idea of this group was to use light at night-time to create some interesting images. This turned out to be great fun though, as with any outdoor project, it’s worth building in some contingency for the weather, which we did. Early on we used one of the Monday...
SWM December 2016 – Photo Stacking
Getting a sharp image with a macro lens can be challenging. Photo stacking is a valuable technique to understand how to overcome some of these challenges. Together, we figured out lighting issues and other intricacies of getting a small item fully sharp. Good fun was...
SWM December 2016 – Portrait Silhouettes
This Shoot With Me group (Liz Roulston, Nigel Leyland, Tony Jobling and Joe Tulie) decided to shoot some portrait silhouettes. We tried shooting with natural light against a window, outdoors against a cloudy sunrise and indoors against a flash lit screen. Costumes and...
SWM December 2016 – Portraiture from Horror Movies
Every couple of years at SWM time Seamus McKenna returns to this theme of the baddies from those 80's horror movies. On this occasion Seamus wanted to combine the baddies in suitable pose with backlit, coloured fog for effect. Stephanie, Terry, Tony and Ken were up...
SWM December 2016 – Use of HDR
Our group explored the use of HDR as a means to improve the range otherwise generated in a single shot. Initially we made some progress using the setting within the camera but later got better results using multiple exposures and blending the results on the computer....
SWM December 2016 – Oil on Water
We were a group of 5 who met in 2 groups around a bowl of water! Our set up was a glass table top suspended across 2 chairs about 2 feet above a variety of coloured cards and patterned papers. Washing up liquid (to disperse the oil) was gently mixed into a glass bowl...