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 December 2016 – From Three Rock Mountain
The objective was to catch the sun rising over Dublin Bay and the greater Dublin area from the majestic heights of Three Rock Mountain. Compliments to members of the group who met in the dark and trekked up to the masts at 3 Rock on a cold and windy Saturday morning....
SWM December 2016 – Horse Racing
We had three visits; firstly to a Point to Point in Tinahely, Co Wicklow and 3 mile steeplechases were on offer, secondly a very wet visit to Denis Cullen’s training yard in Co. Kildare for morning gallops and lastly to a cold Leopardstown Racecourse for flat racing...
SWM December 2016 – Frozen Flowers
This was an experiment as there seems to be little written on frozen flowers. We were starting from scratch to see what effects we could get - aiming for abstract, dreamy type pictures resembling watercolour paintings. Some flowers worked better than others and...
SWM December 2016 – Post Processing
Mary Ryder, Michael Lawlor and Larry Dalton went to Colimore Harbour for sunrise and each person took some pictures. In Lightroom all pictures had the horizon straightened and then were carefully cropped. In the case of Mary’s photo of the man in the boat, the camera...
SWM December 2016 – Blue Hour
Our 'Blue Hour' SWM Group met 3 times over the autumn months and explored the Halfpenny Bridge area in central Dublin, went to the West Pier in Dun Laoghaire and then on to Poolbeg Lighthouse. As the outings were all outdoors, the weather was a big factor to consider...
SWM May 2016 – 1916 Celebrations
The idea behind the 1916 SWM group was to try and capture some of the spirit and enthusiasm of the many activities related to 1916 this year. The main events were centered around Easter weekend with the big parade where we tried to capture the sense of occasion and...
SWM May 2016 – Burren and West Clare
On 8th April 5 OffShooters headed to West Clare to photograph the wild coast line and some of the Burren. We had a loan of a house in Lahinch, which was a great bonus. The weather was Irish, we were treated to rain, sleet and snow and high winds. We managed very well...
SWM May 2016 – Colour Popping
We used Photoshop tools to process images so that the subject of interest ‘popped’ out of the picture in colour against a black and white background. This was an exercise in image processing rather than in image-taking. We had a special street photography outing to...
SWM May 2016 – Natural Light Portraits
The purpose of our Shoot With Me was to explore Natural Light Portraits. We wanted to experience as many variations on natural light as possible during the time we had. The intention was to see how versatile the light was and if it was possible to get acceptable...