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Next Monday Night – Member's Portrait Shoot
Our next Monday meeting is a member's portrait shoot in the school. As usual, our start time will be 8 pm. Bring your camera and take some portrait shots of your fellow club members.
IPF National Shield Competition 2022
So far about 11 members have submitted images for consideration for the OffShoot entry in the IPF National Shield competition and many thanks to each and every one of you. To all other eligible members, please consider sending in some of your best colour and mono images by using the Dropbox link below.
The IPF (Irish Photographic Federation) National Shield competition is an annual inter-club competition which is open to all clubs who are affiliated with the IPF. While the IPF has not yet announced the Shield competition for 2022, it would be expected to be along the lines of previous years and I expect it to be a printed competition. Clubs may submit a panel of 10 colour images and 10 monochrome images.
Offshoot enters this competition annually and have done well in the past.
Who Can Enter?
A fully paid-up member of Offshoot up to and including Level L distinction can submit images for selection (with some exceptions - see below)
This is the full list of people who are excluded from entering the Shield as per the IPF website
- Any person who has received an IPF Associateship or Fellowship distinction or similar from FIAP, the PSA, or any other similar distinctions from any other photographic organization.
- Any person who has been awarded more than one IPF medal in IPF National Competitions.
- Any person who had an image that was chosen to represent the IPF in international competitions.
- Any person who has received acceptances with five or more image titles, or any award including a ribbon, at FIAP, and/or PSA recognized salons.
- Any person whose club considers him or her to be of advanced standing in any discipline of photography.
- Any person who holds a diploma or degree in photography from any recognized educational institution in Ireland or elsewhere
All images used in the competition shall be the original work of the author. The photographer retains the full copyright of their images.
Call for Images
We are looking for entries from all our eligible members. Please forward your best mono and colour images to the dropbox link below. A maximum of 5 colour and 5 mono is allowed per entrant. (from any year or any genre) The images should be in jpg format, with approx. 2000 pixels on the long side and a maximum size of about 2mb named as follows:
999_MyPictureTitle.jpg
Replace 999 with your membership number. Please do not use your own name as part of the title, as the selection committee needs to review the images anonymously. Please do not use punctuation such as commas, apostrophes, or special characters. Please avoid using spaces. You can use a Capital letter to identify the beginning of a Word (e.g., My Picture Title becomes MyPictureTitle).
[Please, please, please rename your images as per this format. Not doing so adds massively to the administration of our entry]
We will form a selection committee and shortlist of contenders to represent the club. We will later seek full-resolution images for the shortlisted entries to select our Mono and Colour entry panels. We frequently have a shortage of Mono images, so we ask our members to make an extra special effort submitting Mono images.
Dropbox Submission
Link: https://www.dropbox.com/request/5GCwPNj6BQSnHdbXEvqw
Shoot With Me is Getting Going
The final allocation of members to the SWM groups is complete and you should have been contacted by your group leader.
We all look forward to the two SWM Showcase evenings in December to see the results of the groups’ efforts!
Some Club Images remain to be collected
There are still a number of images from the Club Exhibition that their owners have not collected. Please contact Emily Gallagher if you want to retrieve your photos – she will organise with you directly to get them back to you.
Our exhibition went very well and proudly displayed some great images from club members. The DLR Lexicon have agreed to the same timing and arrangements for our 2023 exhibition. |
