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Next Monday Night – Jimmy Reid Insect Photography
Our next Monday meeting will be a Zoom presentation by Scottish photographer Jimmy Reid on his insect images. The meeting link will open at 7:45m should you wish to have a chat beforehand and the meeting will start at 8pm. The link will be sent out on Sunday evening.
Here are a couple of links to Jimmy's work.
https://www.instagram.com/jimmyreidphotography
https://www.facebook.com/jimmyreidphotography
Last Monday Night – Member's Portrait Shoot
Thank you to everyone who came along last Monday to our fun portrait shoot evening. The images that resulted have been fantastic, well done everyone. It was nice to catch up with people and meet some new members.
Next Competition - Reflections
The theme for the next competition is Refections which you can interpret any way you like for example reflections on surfaces, water, windows, puddles, mirrors, metal, shiny objects and wherever your imagination takes you.
As usual please save your images in JPEG format and name them with your Level Number, Membership Number and Image Title:
L2-001-Image title.jpg
This is a printed competition for Levels 2 and 3 and Projected for Level 1. Hand-in will be on Monday 7th November November at the club for the printed images (and on the Dropbox link for projected)
You can submit up to 2 images.
The link for printing and for the projected images will be sent out over the next few weeks.
The judging will be on Monday 21 November and the judges are Eamonn and Christine from Skerries photography. Their website is https://skerriesphotography.com
We would encourage everyone to participate especially new members, as the feedback from the judges is always useful and informative.
Set of Lights & Accessories For Sale
Pearl has a set of lights with accessories that she would like to sell if anyone is interested. Please contact Pearl directly for more information.
Exhibition Book
We are in the process of putting together a book of images from the Exhibition that will be for sale to members. Further information to follow.
Wild Lights is Back at the Zoo
Wild Lights is back at the Zoo this year. We normally get a group together to go in December and are currently getting a list of interested members together. Please let us know if you would like to go.
Outings Images
Could those that attended the Red Kites outing please provide Ian with images from the outing? The images should be at least 1400px on the longest edge. Thank you.
Please upload them to https://www.dropbox.com/request/67enSRjNCqxt4hXptWo1
IPF National Shield Competition 2022
We are looking for images to form our panel for the IPF National Shield, please consider sending in some of your best colour and mono images by using the Dropbox link below.
The closing date is not yet known and is usually given with quite short notice, so, if you are considering putting in some images, please do as soon as you can. This allows the selection committee some time to put the panel together. Thank you.
The IPF (Irish Photographic Federation) National Shield competition is an annual inter-club competition which is open to all clubs who are affiliated with the IPF. While the IPF has not yet announced the Shield competition for 2022, it would be expected to be along the lines of previous years and I expect it to be a printed competition. Clubs may submit a panel of 10 colour images and 10 monochrome images.
Offshoot enters this competition annually and have done well in the past.
Who Can Enter?
A fully paid-up member of Offshoot up to and including Level L distinction can submit images for selection (with some exceptions - see below)
This is the full list of people who are excluded from entering the Shield as per the IPF website
- Any person who has received an IPF Associateship or Fellowship distinction or similar from FIAP, the PSA, or any other similar distinctions from any other photographic organization.
- Any person who has been awarded more than one IPF medal in IPF National Competitions.
- Any person who had an image that was chosen to represent the IPF in international competitions.
- Any person who has received acceptances with five or more image titles, or any award including a ribbon, at FIAP, and/or PSA recognized salons.
- Any person whose club considers him or her to be of advanced standing in any discipline of photography.
- Any person who holds a diploma or degree in photography from any recognized educational institution in Ireland or elsewhere
All images used in the competition shall be the original work of the author. The photographer retains the full copyright of their images.
Call for Images
We are looking for entries from all our eligible members. Please forward your best mono and colour images to the dropbox link below. A maximum of 5 colour and 5 mono is allowed per entrant. (from any year or any genre) The images should be in jpg format, with approx. 2000 pixels on the long side and a maximum size of about 2mb named as follows:
999_MyPictureTitle.jpg
Replace 999 with your membership number. Please do not use your own name as part of the title, as the selection committee needs to review the images anonymously. Please do not use punctuation such as commas, apostrophes, or special characters. Please avoid using spaces. You can use a Capital letter to identify the beginning of a Word (e.g., My Picture Title becomes MyPictureTitle).
[Please, please, please rename your images as per this format. Not doing so adds massively to the administration of our entry]
We will form a selection committee and shortlist of contenders to represent the club. We will later seek full-resolution images for the shortlisted entries to select our Mono and Colour entry panels. We frequently have a shortage of Mono images, so we ask our members to make an extra special effort submitting Mono images.
Dropbox Submission
Link: https://www.dropbox.com/request/5GCwPNj6BQSnHdbXEvqw
Shoot With Me
Now that everyone has been contacted by the Leaders of their Shoot With Me groups, our latest adventures can begin!
One of the many things we all enjoy about SWM is that we get to meet other members that we may not know yet and take photographs for a new and interesting project.
We all look forward to the two SWM Showcase evenings in December to see the results of the groups’ efforts!
Some Club Images remain to be collected
There are still a number of images from the Club Exhibition that their owners have not collected. Please contact Emily Gallagher if you want to retrieve your photos – she will organise with you directly to get them back to you. |
