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OffShoot Newsletter - 6th January 2018

Happy New Year! Hope this is another excellent year for the club and for your photography, with plenty of new experiences and photo opportunities. With New Year's resolutions being in vogue, perhaps you might think of a club related one like volunteering to lead a Shoot With Me session or taking part in an outing or two. The club relies on you’re active participation.

This Monday 8th January we are asking you to bring 2 to 3 images from your Christmas adventures on a USB stick or upload to https://www.dropbox.com/request/jpgJ1nxJUr33uvCDzA6l and we will project them onto the screen for all to see. We will also be discussing the programme we have lined up for the Spring and getting feedback from members on how the club can be improved.

And before that, tomorrow we have the first outing of the year to Bull Island for some bird photography. Details on the club website here.

Nominations for 2018 Committee

We will be holding our AGM on 22nd January 2018 at which we will be electing a new Committee for the 2018 year. If you wish to nominate someone for a position on the Committee (with their consent), or if you yourself would like to put yourself forward to serve on the Committee please email the Secretary at secretary@offshoot.ie or speak to Russell or Ian at the next meeting.

Interesting Articles Recommended By Our Members

The 2017 Monitor Buyer's Guide for Photographers: Finding the Best.

This guide focuses on buying a monitor that is geared specifically towards photography/post-processing.
Link

Tip: Use a Mannequin Head to Practice Portrait Lighting Without a Model
Want to learn portrait lighting but don’t have a model you can spend hours and hours with? Here’s a 4-minute video in which photographer Ed Verosky offers a simple suggestion: Buy a cheap mannequin head to practice your skills.
Link

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Annual Subscription 2018

Please ensure you renew your membership by paying your subscription by 28th February 2018.

The subscription can be paid at the door before the meetings either in either cash or via a cheque made out to 'OffShoot Photography Society'.

Payment can also be made via PayPal. You can do this by either logging into your PayPal account and by making a once off payment of €80 to paypal@offshoot.ie or via the Society's website at the link https://offshoot.ie/subs/.

Any queries you wish to make on this matter should be sent to subs@offshoot.ie.

Sugarloaf by Phil Tung

Just a note for new members – if you want any of your pictures considered for photo of the week, you just have to post them to the Offshoot Flickr group at https://www.flickr.com/groups/offshoot_society/. There’s also a link from the Offshoot home page.

7th January 2018: Club Outing – Birds at Bull Island
8th January 2018: Club Meeting – Welcome Back – Christmas Photos / Programme / Feedback from Members
9th January 2018: Club Outing – Skerries
14th January 2018: Club Outing – Point to Point (Tinahely)
15th January 2018: Club Meeting – Ita Martin (Wildlife and other)
22nd January 2018: Club Meeting – AGM
27th January 2018: Club Outing – Masterclass with Peter Gordon in a Short Workshop
29th January 2018: Club Meeting – Assignment #4 Hand In + Strobe Lights Tutorial and Practical

5th February 2018: Club Meeting – FIPF Roseanne Baume / Assignment #4 Judging (Kyle Tunney)
12th February 2018: Club Meeting – Terry McDonagh (Sailing)
19th February 2018: Club Meeting – Competition #1 Hand-in / Camera Types and what each of their benefits are
26th February 2018: Club Meeting – Competition #1 Judging (Ita Martin)

Keep an eye on your email and the What's On section on the website for updates.

Forthcoming competitions/critiques are as follows:

- 29th January 2018 - Assignment #4 hand-in (Assignment Feedback by Kyle Tunney on 5th February 2018)

- The first competition hand-in will be on the 19th February 2018 and is a projected competition. The judge will be Ita Martin who will also be presenting at the club in early January.

The theme is ‘Nature and Wildlife’. There are 2 sections: B&W and colour. You may submit up to 2 (two) entries in total. The entries can be distributed one in each section or 2 in one section.

There is no theme, it is an Open Competition. There are 2 sections: B&W and colour. You may submit up to 4 (four) entries in total. You may submit up to 2 entries per section.

What does ISO stand for?

A. Internal Shutter Option

B. International Standards Organisation

C. Independent Standard Optimisation

D. I Support Offshoot

Answer at bottom of the Newsletter.

ZEISS Photography Award 2018 "Seeing Beyond - Untold Stories"

Details here. Closing date 6th February.

Krass Clement | The Light Gleams an Instant: Photographs from Ireland, Gallery of Photography

Wednesday 15 November 2017 – Monday 22 January 2018

Danish artist Krass Clement’s photographic work emerges from two traditions: Scandinavian melancholy and the ‘flaneur’ tradition from the Parisian school. Clement’s work is concerned with reflecting interior states of mind rather than with documenting real life situations. His dark, stripped-back aesthetic combines with a stream of consciousness approach to evoke introspective, psychological landscapes that sit somewhere between fiction and reality

Drum was photographed over a single evening in a small pub in Drum, County Monaghan. With only a few rolls of film (and a rumoured five pints of Guinness), Clement created one of the most important contributions to the international canon of contemporary photo books. Through subtle shifts in focus and masterful filmic sequencing, the book comes to concentrate on one principal character in the shadowy pub: a hunched, weather-beaten man sitting alone with his drink. The work is a quiet meditation on community, the outsider, alienation and the terrors of being alone.

The exhibition also includes the world premiere of work made in Dublin in 1991.

http://www.galleryofphotography.ie/exhibitions/recent/current/

Photographer Of The Year Updates

Regional Rounds:

Dublin and South Leinster Region - Nature and POTY - Grand Hotel Malahide, Collection on 13th of January, Judging 20th of January.

Finals Weekend:

The national finals of the IPF Nature Photographer of the Year competition will be held on Saturday the 17th of February with the IPF Photographer of the Year competition on Sunday the 18th of February 2018.

As always, please check regularly on the IPF website and Facebook page for updates on the competition and dates for regional rounds.

More details soon on the IPF website.

Quiz Question Answer:

B. International Standards Organisation (https://www.all-things-photography.com/iso/)