Next Monday – Members’ Digital Clinic 

Next Club Competition Theme is “Food” 

Club Exhibition 

Images Required for the IPF Club Competition

 See below for the details of these stories and more!

Next Monday – Members’ Digital Clinic

Next Monday evening (25 March) we are having a new initiative – a digital clinic.

The idea behind this is that members submit their queries about any aspect of their photography and we will ask a panel of our advanced members in the club to try and provide answers. On the evening we will break into a number of groups to help with any items that might be raised at our meeting as well.

If you have any questions, photos or issues that you need help with, please send them in advance to our Chair Emily as soon as possible so that our expert panel can provide the best answers possible.

These are examples of some items that could be addressed at our clinic:

·      How would you process this landscape image?

·      Will this image print well?

·      What paper would you print this image on?

·      In Photoshop how might you clean up the edges of this image?

·      How do you store and organise your images? What is a good method?

We hope that this will be an interesting and helpful session with plenty of member interaction.

2024 Club Exhibition

Our 2024 Club Exhibition will be held in Deansgrange Library in May.

If you would like to take part, please send a maximum of two images at best quality settings to the following link

Your images will be professionally printed, mounted and framed in a white frame by Steve Crozier at 360DPI. 

Our exhibition is always a wonderful success and it is fantastic to see so many of our members’ images presented together.

Images for the IPF National Club Competition

Following our excellent performance at the 2023 IPF National Shield Competition, we intend to submit a strong panel of images for the IPF National Club Competition. To this end, we request all members to pull together any photographs they would like to be considered for inclusion in the club colour and mono panels.

Images from all club members are eligible for inclusion in this competition. You can submit up to 5 colour and 5 mono images for consideration using this link to submit your images.

Please name your files as follows: C (for colour) or B (for black & white) followed by membership number plus Title separated by "-". eg. C-123-Title

The Deserted Boat - Frank Gaughan

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:

Next Club Competition – Theme “Food”

 The next club competition will be on the theme of Food (including Drink). You can interpret this in any way you like as long as food or drink is the main subject. Therefore, your image could be taken in a restaurant, a home set-up or outdoors in a market or food growing in the landscape.

 As usual, please save your images in JPEG format and name them with your Level Number, Membership Number and Image Title in the following format:

L2-001-Image title.jpg

 You may submit up to 2 images to this link 

 This is a projected competition for all levels. Latest date for uploading your images is Monday 08 April with judging scheduled for Monday 15 April.

 The remaining competition themes for this year are: 

   Food - April 

   Dereliction - June

   Mono - September 

   Open - November

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

You NEED a SUPERZOOM lens!! - Tony & Chelsea Northrup

BEST software for FIXING BLURRED / OUT OF FOCUS portraits - Glyn Dewis

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!