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AGM

The AGM of Offshoot Photography Society will take place on Monday 06 December 2021 at 8pm. Due to continuing Covid restrictions the meeting will be held by Zoom. Please make a special effort to attend.

We continue to seek members to serve on the committee in 2022. Without volunteers it may be necessary to restrict some of our activities – a measure we are very anxious to avoid. So please give serious consideration to how you might assist and indicate your interest as soon as possible to committee@offshoot.ie

Outings 

Even if you are suffering from Zoom fatigue and are missing human interaction, you can still join other members on outings. Outings are a great way to socialise with fellow members, visit new places and even tale some photographs – so do come and join us!

Look at the schedule at the end of this Newsletter for Outings…..

Please note that registration for Outings will be continued to facilitate contact tracing in the event that we experience a Covid outbreak with the group.

Special Outing – Portrait Masterclass

Our last Portrait Masterclass was totally booked out so we have arranged another for you.

This is special because it’s indoors! This is an afternoon for beginners in the art of portraiture in a fully equipped studio with a model. It is on the afternoon of 22 January 2022 – it’s a Saturday and the number of attendees is limited to 10.

This session is filling up quickly so get your name on the list by emailing outings@offshoot.ie now.

Accessing Video Recordings of Meetings

You can access recordings of past Zoom meetings in the Videos section of the Member's Area at https://www.offshoot.ie/member-area/. You will need to log in to the website to see the content of this section of the site.

Every member has a log in to the site. If you don't remember your login details go to https://www.offshoot.ie/login/ and select the 'Forgot your password?' link. Enter the email address you received this newsletter with and reset your password. Once you've reset your password you can log in and catch up on speakers you missed. Happy catching up!

Judging this Monday night "Autumn Colours” 

To give you some advanced warning, the first Club Competition for 2022 is proposed to be an Open Theme competition for Monochrome images. The entry date will be in late January – full details to follow in due course.

For those who may not have engaged with this yet here's how it works. Each week a theme/topic is set.

During the week you shoot or process an image in that theme. and load it on the Flickr site. One image will be selected as the "theme pic of the week" and published in the following week's newsletter.

Why bother? The theme pic gives you an opportunity to explore and try out many different styles and types of photography. It increases the variety of images on our site and is an excellent opportunity to expand your creativity and photography skills and you get your picture in the weekly newsletter!

Please note this is not a competition. The image chosen each is selected to encourage and inspire us. It may be the most technical but could also be selected as the most unusual, the most creative, the funniest or the one that appealed to us the most. The pictures are selected by a different member of the team each week to ensure varied viewpoints.

This week's theme is HDR.

High dynamic range photographs are useful when shooting in extremely contrasty light. An example would be shooting a portrait against a bright sky. If you expose the sky correctly the subject becomes a shadow, if you expose for the subject the sky burns out and becomes white. So take 2 shots on a tripod and blend the best of each for a HDR image.

HDR Tutorial

Exposure blending in Photoshop

Exposure blending in Affinity Photo

HDR beginners guide

Cannon Tips for HDR

We look forward to seeing your images. Don't forget to label your images on Flickr with the theme name.

Here are the next scheduled meetings and events for the Society:

Members will be able to attend our outings by registering for specific outings. Keep up to date with the latest events at https://www.offshoot.ie/whats-on/.

Just a note for new members – if you want any of your pictures considered for the 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 the latest images published on Flickr that are displayed on the OffShoot home page.

 [Note. To join the Offshoot Flickr group, you must first be a Flickr member. Then send the email address used to join Flickr to webmaster@offshoot.ie. You will get an email when you have been added to the group. Please be patient as this is a manual process.]

Theme "Rule of Odds" - Rule of Odds by Taryn Barling

Non-Themed - Lago de Predil 1w by Frank Gaughan

If you come across one you want to share let us know at newsletter@offshoot.ie.

Winter Gloves for Photography - Moose Henderson

EASY LONG Exposure NIGHT Street Photography Tips + Shoot! - Pierre T. Lambert

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