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Next Monday – The Second SWM Showcase
Next Monday, we will have the second of our presentations by participating groups. Do come, be entertained and view some more very creative images.
Last Monday – The First SWM Showcase
Last Monday we had the first of the Shoot With Me showcases and, as usual, the participants in this programme both enjoyed themselves and produced images of a high quality.
Shoot With Me is unique to OffShoot and enables members to share in a project that they may both learn and socialise. The resulting interaction always produces superb camaraderie and some inventive and creative images. Long may it continue.
Club Outing - Wild Ireland
On Saturday 7th June there will be an outing to Wild Ireland in Donegal.
The wildlife park was originally set up with the idea of homing some of the animals that would have inhabited our woodlands many years ago. It also provides a sanctuary to many animals which have been exploited, abused and hunted to the point of extinction.
The plan is to carpool, leaving Dublin around 6am and arriving there around 10am. You can easily spend a couple of hours or all day there.
If you are interested in going please put a message in either the Outings or Social WhatsApp group as soon as you can so we have an idea of numbers.
Eithne has set up a special Wild Ireland WhatsApp group which I will then add you to so that we can arrange lifts.
Admission cost is €18.50 and there is a café offering drinks and light snacks.
Club Exhibition
The club's annual exhibition will be held in The Lexicon Library, level 4, from July 10th to 17th August.
If you would like to take part in the exhibition, please submit up to two images each to the link below before midnight on the 20th June 2025. The topic can be anything. The images will be printed, mounted and framed by Steve at a cost of €30 each, unless you want to use a different paper option, as explained below.
Please pay the same club bank account that you use to pay your membership subscription. Please add your membership number and exhib in the space provided for notes.
When submitting images for the exhibition, can members please add a title to the images, as we will have foam title tags for each image, and it looks better if the image has a name rather than a camera-generated file name. Please upload your files in TIFF format, as it means that the image will print really well.
The naming convention for the files is PhotographersName-ImageTitle.Tiff.
There will be a launch party after the first night of the exhibition.
Please add your images to the Dropbox link below.
https://www.dropbox.com/request/RJw6nGv6X1IDddC25zyn
We know this is three months away BUT you have to have your images ready and in the Dropbox by 20th June and that is only six weeks away. Start sorting now.
Exhibition Upload Paper Options
You should save your images in TIF format (Ideally in ADOBE RGB 1998 Colour Space) and name them with your Name and Image Title: AuthorName-ImageTitle.tif e.g. There is an optional addition of three letters to this to choose alternative paper types (see the section on Paper Type below).
Note that JPEG files are acceptable, but the image quality will be somewhat lower.
Paper Type
If you want your images on the standard Lustre paper there is nothing more to do.
If you wish to have a different paper type you need to add three letters after your membership number in the file title.
If you don’t do this the assumption is Lustre Paper.
Paper Type Code Price
Lustre LUS €13.5
Fine Art Pearl FAP €20.0
Photo Rag Matt PRM €20.0
For example if wish to have your images on Fine Art Pearl you should
name your file: AuthorName-FAP-Image title.tif
If you omit these letters the assumption is Lustre Paper.
If you have any questions, please ask Emily.
IPF Distinction Sitting
Sitting for a distinction is the best way of learning about and developing your photography. It takes patience and you invest a lot of time in preparing a panel.
The next distinction sitting takes place on 27th September in Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise (applications from 12.00 pm on 12th August to 10.00 pm on 5th September) and the one after that is 22nd November in Thurles (applications from 12.00 pm on 7th October to 10.00 pm on 31st October).
Do have a go at a distinction. Success or failure is nought to the experience and knowledge gained.
November Connemara Weekend
Plans are advancing for a great photographic trip to Connemara for the weekend 7 – 9 November 2025. Details have already been circulated by email. If you require any further information, please contact any members of the Outings Committee. |
