Next Monday

Next week's meeting will be a member portrait night, and we will be taking photos of each other.

Please let us know if anyone has any sets of lights and backgrounds that we could use. It would be great if we could have four setups to have four groups moving around.

Shoot With Me

The Shoot With Me mastermind, Pat Divilly, has asked members to choose their groups for the Autumn SWM.

The choices can be viewed here.   

Send an email to swm@offshoot.ie listing your top three groups in order of preference in the format

1. Group X

2. Group Y

3. Group Z

We typically have two groups that are significantly oversubscribed, and places are allocated on a strict “first come” basis.

We can get up to 20 emails in the first 15 minutes, which means that we must be very strict on the “first come” rule.

The lines will open at 6:00 PM on this Sunday 8th September and any emails received before that time will be put to the back of the queue.

WhatsApp Groups

Don’t get left outside the loop. Get inside a WhatsApp group. Here are all the groups just waiting for you to join:

Outings - Please contact Eithne O'Leary

Social - Please contact Ken McFarland

Nikon - Please contact Lionel Barker

Fujifilm - Please contact John Wiles

Capture One - Please contact John Wiles

Affinity Photo - Please contact John Wiles 

Olympus - Please contact Jerome Fennell

Canon - Please contact Emily Gallagher

Sony - Please contact Matt O'Brien

Drones – Please contact Peter Brennan

Butterfly - Jerome Fennell

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 webadmin@offshoot.ie. You will get an email when you have been added to the group. Please be patient as this is a manual process.]

What's On 

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

Mono

Our next competition will be on the theme of 'Mono'. Mono is a photograph that utilizes differing amounts of light instead of different colours to capture and represent images. 

Monochrome (Black and White photography) uses varying shades of neutral grey instead of the colours of the objects photographed. 

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

As always, we encourage all of you (especially new members) to enter. The most significant benefit from entering is the feedback from independent judges to help you improve your photography.

You can submit up to 2 images, so get shooting. We look forward to seeing a great selection of images. 

This is a printed competition for all levels. The upload will be on Monday, 16th September, and the hand-in will be on Monday, 23rd September, for judging on Monday, 30th September.

You must upload images to Steve using the link below to facilitate payment. Make sure you say collection rather than delivery. Upload images for printing here.

Please also upload your image here so we can project the image on the night of the judging.

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

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Irish Photographic Federation Web Site:

https://irishphoto.ie/

Most recent news and articles posted:

https://irishphoto.ie/news/

Distinction Sittings and Availability:

https://irishphoto.ie/distinctions/assessment-dates/

You can access the recordings of past Zoom meetings from the OffShoot website.

These videos are available 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 login 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 login and catch-up on speakers you missed. Happy catching up!