Last Monday

Last Monday, David Larkin from Dublin Camera Club judged our Mono competition's entries. See the winning entries here.

Next Monday

Offshoot member Kevin Grace will present a series of landscape photos from his recent trip to Washington State, USA and Whistler, Canada.

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 four raw files  here: 

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

Please upload your processed images here by Friday, 1st 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 on November 9th in The Barbican Centre, Drogheda, Co Louth. We plan to submit colour and mono panels of eight members' images each. We are allowed to have one image per photographer in each panel, with a maximum of one 'L' image per panel.

This competition is open to club members, including those with an 'L'. Please start now to consider which images you might like to submit for consideration for the club panels.

Upload your images to this Dropbox link.

This is a perfect opportunity to get involved with the IPF. 
We need as many members as possible to take part and to enter up to five images in colour and or black and white images. 

New Committee Members Needed

Several existing committee members will not continue in 2025, having served the constitutionally permitted terms. We are looking for new members to help steer your club into the future.

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

Next Club Competition – Open

The next competition will be 'Open', which means that you can submit anything you like in either mono or colour.

It will also be a printed competition, so is an opportunity to get some images printed before Christmas. As with the last competition we hope to project the images on the night but the judge will only be judging the printed version and will only see the projected images on the night.  

We encourage all grades to enter, as getting an independent critique of your images is beneficial.

It is very important that you follow the format below as this greatly helps to collate the images and verify them before the judging.   

L[Competiton Level]-[Membership Number]-[Title].[File Extension]

Examples

L2-444-This is my image title.tif  

L1-123-This is my image title and spaces are allowed.jpg

The upload link is 360-dpi.com.

Each member can submit up to 2 images. It should be noted that by uploading to Steve, you have agreed for Steve to pass on the images to us for the presentation.

Images must be uploaded by Monday, 4th November for printing, which means we will be labelling for the judge on Monday, 11th November, and judging on Monday, 18th November.

We encourage you to enter and look forward to seeing a great selection of images.

Singing on Shop Street by Gerry Donovan

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:

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

7 PHOTO IDEAS to instantly IMPROVE your AUTUMN photography - Nigel Danson

10 Autumn Photography Ideas You Should Try This Season - Kim Grant

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!