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Shoot With Me

A number of members have volunteered to be Group Leaders in our first SWM of 2022.

We still need a few more to meet our target of 12 that will allow us to get the SWM up and running at the start of February. If not having a suitable group theme is preventing you from volunteering, check out this list

of 328 photographic themes. 328 Photography Themes: A List Of Themes To Photograph | Icon Photography School (photographyicon.com)

Why not select one that you would like to try, learn or improve? Having selected a theme for your group, just send an email with your name, theme title and

brief theme description to swm@offshoot.ie

Your support will allow us to kick-off SWM on schedule in early February.

You can see a list of previous topics here.  

Interesting talks on the Internet

The RPS (Royal Photographic Society) has published a list of online talks which may be of interest to our members. Check out the topics here.

Topics include amongst others "The Art of Creative Composition - Simon Ellingworth" and "Smartphone Photography - Jo Bradford".

Please note these are not free and will require a fee to be paid to attend.

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!

Our next competition will be a Monochrome competition with an "OPEN" theme, which means utilising differing amounts of light instead of different colours to capture and represent images.  It includes black and white but can be achieved using varying shades of other colours like sepia or cyan.

You can interpret the theme as you wish from Landscapes to People and anything in between. Street and Architecture also work well in monochrome.  

Our judge for this competition is Gerry Andrews FIPF, ARPS, AFIAP from Dublin Camera Club

Website www.gerryandrews.com /

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gerryandrews/

Please submit your images by Midnight Sunday 6th February 2022.  Judging will take place on Monday 14th February 2022.

As usual, save your images in JPG format, and name them with your Level Number, Membership Number, and image title – 

L2-001-Mono image.jpg

You may submit two images for this competition, to make sure that everybody receives useful feedback, and that Gerry will get home at a reasonable hour!  Please upload your images to the dropbox link below.  Looking forward to seeing some of your images.

https://www.dropbox.com/request/OrQrMDWhsCHVkzqTm9XQ

If you have any questions, please contact competitions@offshoot.ie

This is not a competition rather an opportunity to learn a bit about an area of photography or try a different type of photography. The photo selected each week can be picked because it's technically excellent or equally because it's unusual, funny, creative or thought-provoking.

To enter your shots just upload from your Flickr page to the OffShoot Flickr page before 7 PM the following Friday. Please title your shot with the theme of the week + your own title.

Wishing you an enjoyable and educational 2022 from the Flickr theme pickers.

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!

This week's theme is "Shadows" 

https://digital-photography-school.com/shadows-in-photography/ 

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

Upcoming Themes

• Shoes 
• The Blue hour
• Texture
• Weather

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.]

Themed - Lines Spinning Wheel by Hilda McInerney

Non-Themed - Through the Arch by Mary Hahn

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

Shooting in Monochrome. Black and White Photography by Gary McIntyre

Using Photo Ephemeris Web, Part 1: Basics by Photo Ephemeris

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