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Competition
The competition feedback / results can be found at this link.
Offshoot Digital Competition
A big thanks to David Sisk for organising this first 'virtual' competition, Dermot Byrne as judge, and behind the scenes support from Katherine and Ian.
Newsletter Suggestions From Our Members.
Paul O'Brien has submitted a tutorial on Astro Photography, while Wendy Hannan has suggested a tutorial on painting still life. See links further down. The lessons for painting are very relevant to photography. I have other suggestions from members in the pipeline. If anyone has other content for the newsletter, please forward to newsletter@offshoot.ie.
Weekly Theme
The next weekly Offshoot Flickr Theme is "Movement".
The more sense of movement the better. This could be a bus passing by, water flowing, the dog chasing the cat, stars in motion, night light trails, plants in the wind or something completely different.
NB 1. Just for clarity. Images used in the weekly Offshoot Flickr themes can be used in club competitions also.
NB 2. Next week's theme will be 'Mono' , just to give advance notice.
Images (mono or colour) can be posted to our Flickr group from now until next Friday night at 9 pm. Remember to put "Movement" in the Flickr title field.
This is not a competition but an opportunity to have fun with your camera or post-processing skills or both. These exercises are good for getting us to use our cameras and our minds, and to look for unusual compositions or situations related to the theme. Remember there are no judges, no-one checking for over-sharpening, for eyes out of focus or rules of thirds. We are looking for variety and expression. Normal Flickr rules apply.
Members do not have to enter every week. The only condition is that you enter the Theme title "Movement" at the very beginning of the Title Description field when uploading to Flickr, so we can recognise 'Themed' images. People can continue to post non-themed images to Flickr.
[Note. To join the Offshoot Flickr group, you must first be a Flickr member. Then send the email address used to join Flickr to webmaster@offshoot.ie. You will get an email when you have been added to the group. Please be patient as this is a manual process.]
Digital Competition
Congrats to all for taking part. Details of next competition to follow. We will announce a new competition theme but will give plenty of time for entries.
Virtual Meetings / Presentations Update
Discussions are ongoing in terms of a number of potential virtual club sessions. Details will be announced as soon as arrangements confirmed.
Annual Exhibition
We are pleased to confirm that agreement has been reached with the library to defer the exhibition until the Autumn.
This means that you can continue to work on your exhibition images and submit them to this link when you are ready.
https://www.dropbox.com/request/9bNDicu71JFLXL1W4eHx
Please be assured that we will not print or frame the images until we are comfortable that the exhibition will proceed and people can fully enjoy such an event.
Tony will circulate a note with more specific details in due course.
If you have any further queries, please contact Dave or Tony.
Shoot With Me (SWM)
The Shoot With Me is only suspended from a group or club perspective, but individuals are completely free to progress their own projects at a time and pace that suits them. We will republish dates for the SWM when that is possible.
Summary
We wish to emphasise that all of the activities are all optional. The basic idea is to have a few things to focus on to maintain your hobby, continue to develop your skills, familiarity with your equipment. It is an opportunity to experiment and share with others the fruits of your labours.
Furthermore, we can look forward to the eventual demise of this pandemic, knowing that we have an Exhibition and Shoot With Me ln the wings and ready to launch as soon as we have clarity on dates, etc. We can use both to celebrate the return to more normal times.
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