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Next Monday – SWM Showcase Spring 2023

 

Club Exhibition Images Requested by 12th June

 

Next Club Competition Theme is Movement

 

Putting Together a Judging Panel

 

 See below for the details of these stories and more!

News

Next Monday Night – SWM Showcase Spring 2023

The Shoot With Me (SWM) concept is unique to Offshoot. If you have participated, you will know that you have been part of a group of fellow photographers gathered together with a common aim. We are sure you will have enjoyed the experience, met fellow members in a photographic and social environment, and learned a lot from the interaction.

So come along on Monday to the first of the showcases and share your experience with all our members and take home your prints in memory of the craic and photographic interaction. 

URGENT - Please Collect Your Printed Images

We are under pressure to tidy up our storage unit in the school. We have a significant number of unclaimed images stored in the school. These include prints from the recent competition, the last Shoot With Me showcases, and also from earlier events – even before the Covid disruption.

So please come to collect your prints on Monday evening or arrange for another member to collect them on your behalf.

 

Plans for the 2023 Club Exhibition Developing

This year’s exhibition will be held between 12th July and 26th August on the fourth floor of the Lexicon in Dun Laoghaire.

We also plan to compile a book of the exhibition images that will be available at the time of the event, further updates on the book will follow in the next while.

Members may have a maximum of two images each in the exhibition.

The Dropbox link to upload images is here. Please upload your images in their full size in tiff format – this enables Steve to print your images to the best quality.

The images will be printed, mounted, and framed by Steve and his company 360dpi, this year like last year each image will cost €30.

The closing date for uploading your images is 12th June 2023.

So now is the time to start thinking about which of your photos you would like to see on display!!

Potential Judging Panel

We are hoping to compile a list of members who have or can Judge competitions for other clubs, as we have been asked in the past for Judges. If you have done this before or have taken part in the IPF Judging training in the past, please contact Emily.

Outings

Like most camera clubs, Offshoot organises outings for members. These are real opportunities for you to socialise, improve your skills by ‘bouncing’ ideas off other members. We have a nucleus of members who attend regularly but we would welcome others to join us. On Monday we will welcome those who went to the Saltees and the Camargue. Their bagful of super images should inspire us all so come along to an outing and enjoy yourself.

What's On

Here are the next scheduled meetings and events for the Society:

Club Competitions

Next Competition

June – Theme MOVEMENT

The next competition will be projected and the theme is the Movement.

This is a very broad theme again to facilitate creativity and essentially movement refers to the act or process of moving especially : change of place or position or posture.  You can interpret as you wish.   Examples might be moving people, water, stars etc.  

As usual please save your images in  JPEG format and name them with your Level Number, Membership Number and Image Title:
eg. L2-001-Image title.jpg

This is a projected competition for all levels.    Hand in will be on Sunday 4th June to the Dropbox link here and the judging will be on Monday 12th June.

You can submit up to 2 images.  

The judging will be a physical meeting in the school and not via Zoom.

We hope you are all out there shooting and getting some good images.

Upcoming 2023 Competition Categories

 

September – Theme MONO

November – Theme STREET

Member's Photo of the Week

Paper Kite by Lionel Barker

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.]

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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.

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