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OffShoot Newsletter - 13th January 2018

This Monday 15th January we welcome guest speaker Ita Martin, who will discuss her wildlife and other images and the techniques she used to get them. See more of Ita’s images at https://www.flickr.com/photos/80011528@N08/.

And before that, tomorrow we have an outing to the Point-to-Point meeting at Tinahely. Details on the club website here.

FSINWP - David-Whitaker

Congratulations to David Whitaker for being awarded his Fellowship of Society of International Nature and Wildlife Photographers at the Societies Convention in London on Thursday. His panel can be viewed here. We will arrange for David to show us his Panel at one of the meetings in the next couple of weeks.

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 folllowing suggestions by Matt O'Brien.

Japanese Art, Umbrellas and Photographs.
I watch out for articles by Adam Marelli, a sculptor and photographer. This article is a real gem. Link.

"The Online Photographer" , Mike Johnson, provides an interesting collection of Black & White Photos in this article (see Link). At the end of the article he provides links to some of the photographers web sites. Worth a look. This is a blog site worth following for an eclectic mix of well written articles, photographically related, with well moderated comments and a loyal and intelligent following.

This section may soon disappear without support or suggestions from our members. If you have anything you want to be included in this section? Send the details to newsletter@offshoot.ie.

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.

Bull Island by Oisín Wallace

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.

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 is?
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.

A ‘bleeding’ picture is one that is:

C. Streaked due to exhausted developer

Answer at bottom of the Newsletter.

On a cold day in early January, the sea and marsh of the Bull Island were bathed in bright sunshine and 12 members ventured on a bird watch...

The theme of our Shoot With Me was 'The Dodder River'. The SWM involved a number of visits to the Dodder River and its tributaries, including…

The theme of our Shoot With Me was 'Minimalist Composition'. Inspired by the Zen-like work of Michael Kenna and further motivated by...

The theme of our Shoot With Me was 'Fractured Mirror Portraits'. The group all got together for a meetup and exchanged ideas for there...

The theme of our Shoot With Me was 'Autumn Moonshots'. This is obviously a very weather dependent SWM project and it also has the further challenge…

The theme of this Shoot With Me was 'Sports Photography' and the group enjoyed pitch-side access as official photographers for the two adult ladies teams from…

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 on the IPF website.

Quiz Question Answer:

A. Without Border - Printing that goes beyond the edge of where the sheet will be trimmed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleed_(printing))