I hope you all got some great shots last night. We'll give you a little
time to sort through them and in two weeks on the 18th bring in your
best shots and we'll get them all together for Robert/Paul to work their
magic and create a show for the kids.
Next week we have our
Social Night. We'll meet in the Bridge at 8pm and then head over to the
Asian Harvest for dinner. So far we have numbers for 12 of us and this should work out at €20 per head for a two course meal.
Following on from discussions last night I think most of us are in
agreement that we need to push ourselves to work on portraits so keep in
mind that at some stage we will be revisiting this topic in the formal
mode of portraits i.e. the classic head & shoulders shot. This will
be a 'Project Work' so you can do this at home. Use whatever light you
wish be it natural, flash, candle, studio etc. or if you watched the
link sent out from Paul a couple of weeks ago you can use the light from
your mobile phone.
Speaking of Project Work we welcome it
back with Reflections. We've put aside Project Work for the past few
months but it's time to get back to it. For those who haven't come
across this before 'Project Work' or 'Homework' is when we take a topic
each week and the following week bring relative photos. We find it's a
great way of developing the creative process, can take us, sometimes,
out of our comfort zone (eg. if someone generally takes landscape photos
but has to take a still life - they now have to take into consideration
how they are going to use either natural light or new light source/s
and create a composition themselves). Most importantly it gets everyone
to use their cameras more often so they become more familiar with them.
Bring in your images on your pen drive/stick and we'll project them
from the laptop. To ease you in gently we'll give you two weeks for
that as well - 18th.
The 18th will be a very busy night as it's
'G Night' - don't ask me to postpone it again - if I'm asked to
postpone it again I'm gonna cancel it altogether!
And the
preferred topic for the Men's Challenge is 'Movement' and will take
place on the 25th along with the results from the Photo Hunt which is
being held on Sunday 22nd June.
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Thursday, June 28, 2012
28 June 2012
Hi all,
Well, for anyone who has been visiting our website (not the blog) since April you will have noticed there are no updates on it. This is due to the fact that my main computer has given up the Ghost and won't come back to me - but I'm still trying. Until then I'll keep the blog updated. I'm not used to these blog things so I never really think about this but you can find notices here until the sites up again.
So what have we been up to. I've noticed that it was January when I last visited here - opps! Rather than rehash it all if you're really interested you can find those details here: http://www.tbpsarklow.com/
For now here's what's most recent and coming up:
Many thanks to Beatrix from www.beatrixportraits.net/ for judging our Portrait Competition last night. It was a good idea to get everyone to talk about their photos which made the feedback from Beatrix more individual and everyone benefits from it. Congratulations to George who came 1st with his Roman begger, Paul was 2nd with his clever thought out self-portrait, and Colum and myself joint 3rd. So remember for next year a portrait should capture the character of the person, and throw balls at them if you have to!
The Social Night venue has changed once again - details in the email.
Date for your Diary:
July
4th Meeting at Seaview Avenue 8.30pm (weather permitting)
8th Brayfest begins - continues until 7th Aug
11th TBPS Social Night @ 8.30pm
13-15th Seabreeze Weekend
18th G Night
22nd Sunday - Photo Hunt
25th Results of Photo Hunt
August
4-5th Maritime Weekend
Right, that's your lot for now, see ye all Wednesday.
Well, for anyone who has been visiting our website (not the blog) since April you will have noticed there are no updates on it. This is due to the fact that my main computer has given up the Ghost and won't come back to me - but I'm still trying. Until then I'll keep the blog updated. I'm not used to these blog things so I never really think about this but you can find notices here until the sites up again.
So what have we been up to. I've noticed that it was January when I last visited here - opps! Rather than rehash it all if you're really interested you can find those details here: http://www.tbpsarklow.com/
For now here's what's most recent and coming up:
Many thanks to Beatrix from www.beatrixportraits.net/ for judging our Portrait Competition last night. It was a good idea to get everyone to talk about their photos which made the feedback from Beatrix more individual and everyone benefits from it. Congratulations to George who came 1st with his Roman begger, Paul was 2nd with his clever thought out self-portrait, and Colum and myself joint 3rd. So remember for next year a portrait should capture the character of the person, and throw balls at them if you have to!
The Social Night venue has changed once again - details in the email.
Date for your Diary:
July
4th Meeting at Seaview Avenue 8.30pm (weather permitting)
8th Brayfest begins - continues until 7th Aug
11th TBPS Social Night @ 8.30pm
13-15th Seabreeze Weekend
18th G Night
22nd Sunday - Photo Hunt
25th Results of Photo Hunt
August
4-5th Maritime Weekend
Right, that's your lot for now, see ye all Wednesday.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Apologies for no blog or updates from August-December 2011. To see those notices please go here:
Welcome to 2012 everyone, may it be filled with love, happiness and lots of
fun.
T’was a stormy night last Wednesday but some of us managed to make it to The
Bridge – most importantly the committee to write up a calendar for the next
few weeks:
First up – in preparation for later in the month we need you to help us out.
We need you to either email or write up a question you would like answered
in relation to either your camera or your photography or anything
photographic related. Perhaps your photos aren’t coming out quite as
intended and you’d like to know why? Is there a button on your camera but
you’ve no idea what it’s for? We’ll do our best to answer them all for you.
Project Work is back – yeah! So for next week – 11th Jan your work is
‘Curves’. Remember as well to bring in your ‘Still Life a la Podge’ and any
festive photos you took and we’ll have a great slideshow for the night.
Also next week Paul wanted to do a talk on Flying Dolphins but we thought
Garden Birds was more appropriate for this time of year. You may remember
Paul did this talk last March and at the time we said it would come up for
Project Work in the future. As many of us feed our little feathered friends
during the winter it’s a great opportunity to capture them in camera.
Hopefully we’ll have the return of Paul Kavanagh on the 18th. Again you may
remember Paul visited us two years ago with his fabulous show of his
climbing trips to Nepal, Wales, Scotland as well as in Ireland. Paul also
takes wildlife photographs and all going well he’ll drop in this evening to
share his work with us.
On the 25th we’re heading out on the town for some Night Shots so make sure
you have your cameras and tripods (cards and batteries charged!)
For the 29th Feb we will hold a QnA/FAQs night. As mentioned above we need
your help with this in order for it to go smoothly so get your questions in
and we can start working on them.
We’re also planning our weekend away and are considering the 11th May as a
possible date. The area being considered this year is West Clare, a
beautiful, stunning area of the country. Here we have the Cliffs of Moher,
The Burren (described as "a savage land, yielding neither water enough to
drown a man, nor tree to hang him, nor soil enough to bury him" by Oliver
Cromwell's surveyor), Aliwee Caves , Arran Islands and lots lots more (not
forgetting a few watering holes). The date isn’t carved in stone so check
your diaries and let us know when you’re available and we’ll start planning
in earnest.
Delightful congratulations to Fiona on the birth of her son recently. We
wish her and all the family all the joy in the world (and sleepful nights).
In Brief:
11th Project Work ‘Curves’; ‘Still Life a la Podge’ & other photos
taken during the hols.
Garden Birds with Paul
18th Paul Kavanagh ‘Wildlife’ (TBC)
25th Out’n’about – Night Shots (cameras/tripods)
29th QnA/FAQ
Other dates of note:
29th February Maritime Competition
28th March Still Life
Welcome to 2012 everyone, may it be filled with love, happiness and lots of
fun.
T’was a stormy night last Wednesday but some of us managed to make it to The
Bridge – most importantly the committee to write up a calendar for the next
few weeks:
First up – in preparation for later in the month we need you to help us out.
We need you to either email or write up a question you would like answered
in relation to either your camera or your photography or anything
photographic related. Perhaps your photos aren’t coming out quite as
intended and you’d like to know why? Is there a button on your camera but
you’ve no idea what it’s for? We’ll do our best to answer them all for you.
Project Work is back – yeah! So for next week – 11th Jan your work is
‘Curves’. Remember as well to bring in your ‘Still Life a la Podge’ and any
festive photos you took and we’ll have a great slideshow for the night.
Also next week Paul wanted to do a talk on Flying Dolphins but we thought
Garden Birds was more appropriate for this time of year. You may remember
Paul did this talk last March and at the time we said it would come up for
Project Work in the future. As many of us feed our little feathered friends
during the winter it’s a great opportunity to capture them in camera.
Hopefully we’ll have the return of Paul Kavanagh on the 18th. Again you may
remember Paul visited us two years ago with his fabulous show of his
climbing trips to Nepal, Wales, Scotland as well as in Ireland. Paul also
takes wildlife photographs and all going well he’ll drop in this evening to
share his work with us.
On the 25th we’re heading out on the town for some Night Shots so make sure
you have your cameras and tripods (cards and batteries charged!)
For the 29th Feb we will hold a QnA/FAQs night. As mentioned above we need
your help with this in order for it to go smoothly so get your questions in
and we can start working on them.
We’re also planning our weekend away and are considering the 11th May as a
possible date. The area being considered this year is West Clare, a
beautiful, stunning area of the country. Here we have the Cliffs of Moher,
The Burren (described as "a savage land, yielding neither water enough to
drown a man, nor tree to hang him, nor soil enough to bury him" by Oliver
Cromwell's surveyor), Aliwee Caves , Arran Islands and lots lots more (not
forgetting a few watering holes). The date isn’t carved in stone so check
your diaries and let us know when you’re available and we’ll start planning
in earnest.
Delightful congratulations to Fiona on the birth of her son recently. We
wish her and all the family all the joy in the world (and sleepful nights).
In Brief:
11th Project Work ‘Curves’; ‘Still Life a la Podge’ & other photos
taken during the hols.
Garden Birds with Paul
18th Paul Kavanagh ‘Wildlife’ (TBC)
25th Out’n’about – Night Shots (cameras/tripods)
29th QnA/FAQ
Other dates of note:
29th February Maritime Competition
28th March Still Life
Sunday, August 28, 2011
August 26th 2011
Many thanks to our judge for our B&W Competition last Wednesday - Andrew Miller. He seemed to be well organised and had something to say about each photo. Based on some of what he said we'll try organise a couple of RAW nights (that's photo talk that is!) as a lot of us are comfortable just taking JPEGs and don't really understand RAW (me included). It'll be interesting to see how it'll improve our work.
Next Wednesday 31st we have the second part of our A-Z so make sure to bring your fully charged cameras and clean cards. You will be given 13 letters (everyone gets the same) and then you will have three quarters of an hour to go out where ever you want either on your own or with someone else and take subjects beginning with each letter e.g. for 'W' you could photograph a wheel, window, wool, water, watch etc. The same image cannot be used for a multitude of letters e.g. if you took a photo of a window you cannot use the same image to use for 'G' for glass. Letters do not have to be taken in order. This exercise is to get your minds going - see things differently and quickly - and remember it's getting darker sooner now so maybe subjects at a distance wouldn't be a great idea unless you have a super dooper flash. When you get back someone will put them in the laptop for you and you can all have a look at them then and see what interesting things everyone has come up with..
The Manipulation Competition will be the last Wednesday in September - 28th. For those of you saying you don't have Photoshop and therefore think you can't manipulate your images I'm telling you you don't need Photoshop. I'll give a lesson on the 7th on how you can manipulate to your hearts content in Picasa.
On the 7th we start our Photo school with introductions from Paul. Lessons will run for 6 weeks 8.30pm-9.30pm. After the six weeks I’ll do two nights on Picasa (I'm hoping that by then we will be in a position to use a computer room so everyone can work away at the same time) and we’re also in the process of organising some Photoshop classes as well so plenty to learn and as members there’s no extra charge.
August 23rd 2011
To quote Simon & Garfunkel 'Time time time - see what's become of me..." yes it's just running away on me so fast but I know you're all avid readers of the Newsletter by now so you know the B&W competition is on tomorrow night (or tonight depending on when you are reading this).
We had a good turn out for Greenane on Sunday - chasing dragonflies, tea, coffe and beetroot cake so we should at least see the results of some photos taken - and perhaps the by-product of the affects of coffee as well!
August 17th 2011
Apologies for the tardiness of this newsletter.
Last week we did the first part of our Alphabet Selection. We stretched the half hour to 45 mins and delighted to say everyone was back within the time! There was some great thinking and imagination flowing and I'll get the photos onto flickr as soon as I can. For those of you who want to try the first lot the letters were: R P B W L V Q A O Y C F G. They don't have to be taken in order but you do have to stick to the 45 mins. You also now have the slight advantage in that I've given you the letters - but try not to prethink what to take as everyone else was on the hop!!
August 8th 2011
Many many thanks to Bernie for opening her doors to us all last Wednesday night, for wining and dining us (that banoffi was mmmmm! Lovely!)
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