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Table Top Photo Session Next Monday 

Collect your Mono Competition Prints Next Monday 

Congratulations to Deirdre Irwin 

Outing to the Balloons 

Same But Different – Processing Challenge 

Images for the IPF National Shield 

Committee Members Needed for 2025

 See below for the details of these stories and more! 

News

Next Monday – Table Top Photo Session

Next Monday (23 September), we are planning to have a Table Top Photo Session at our club meeting. So bring along your camera, any small items suitable as subjects and any continuous light sources (like LED panels) and we will set up some photo opportunities to try!

Mono Competition Prints

If you have uploaded images to 360dpi for printing for the upcoming club competition, please come along next Monday evening to the club meeting to identify your prints (and to add your Level, Membership Number and Image Title on the back) so that they can be sent to the judge. If you are unable to make it yourself, please ask another club members to deputise on your behalf.

Congratulations to Deirdre Irwin

Deirdre’s image “Sleepy Dalmation Pelican in Greece” has been picked as a winner in the international Flickr Wildlife Photography World Day 2024. 

See it here

Well done Deirdre on your great achievement!

Outing to the Balloons

There is a cub outing to the Hot Air Balloons event at Tullamore on Saturday 21 September – meeting 4pm for the afternoon launch.

Same But Different – a Processing Challenge

As everyone knows photography and processing digital pictures are open to interpretation, ideas and inspiration.

So as a fun challenge, we have provided 4 raw files  here: 

Take as many of the 4 as you would like and process them how you want. Then we will review members’ results on 04 November at a club meeting.

Please upload your processed images here by Friday 01 November and put either your name or membership number on them:

The idea is to inspire people to attempt to process images and, maybe, to show their results and reasons for how they did it etc.

(Please note that the images remain the property of the photographer)

Images for the IPF National Shield

The IPF National Shield Club Competition will be held in November. We are planning to submit colour and mono panels of member images. So please start now to consider which images you might like to submit for consideration for the club panels. A Dropbox link for your images will be provided shortly.

New Committee Members Needed

A number of existing committee members will not be continuing in 2025 having served the constitutionally permitted terms. We are now looking for new members to help steer your club into the future.

If you would consider taking up this exciting opportunity, please contact any existing committee member to discuss your interest.

Member's Photo of the Week

Laytown Races - No. 3 off the sand - Marie Neville

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:

Competitions

Mono

Judging of our Mono competition will be on Monday, 30th September.

 

The remaining competition theme for this year is:

Open - November

From the OffShoot Website
Interesting Videos

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

 

You only need ONE LENS to Shoot Multiple Styles of Photogrphy - Lizzie Peirce

Why I changed from Lee Filters to Kase Magnetic Filters - Roger Hance

IPF Links & Events

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/

Accessing Video Recordings of Meetings

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!

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