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.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
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!)
July 28th 2011
After our Committee Meeting last night we have a few things lined up for ye.
First of all I’d like to thank Beatrix from Beatrix Portraits for taking the time out to be our Judge last night for the Ladies Challenge. She was great to comment on everyone’s images and really got involved. One image captured her imagination and she has offered to work in it in B&W so we’re looking forward to seeing the results there. Winners were 3rd Elena, 2nd Margaret, 1st Larissa. Beatrix has also agreed to come in another night and show us some of her work. In the meantime you can visit Beatrix’s website here: http://www.beatrixportraits.net/
Many thanks also to Andrew Dalton for sponsoring last nights competition.
The results of the Photo Hunt were given as well. It was a great day out and made us think and run about the place a bit. Winner of the Funny Photo was Nigel with his Muffin Man. Photo Hunt results: 3rd Bernie, 2nd Julie, 1st Larissa
And don't forget the Maritime Festival is on this weekend - Saturday & Sunday
Saturday: Riverwalk with plenty of live music, duck race, model sailing, amusements culminating in the release of 200 Chinese lanterns at 10p.m. which will be a beautiful spectacle over the town. Lanterns will be on sale on the night.
Sunday 31 the annual blessing of the fleet takes place along the quayside at 2p.m. which will be opened by Arklow Pipe Band. Later in the afternoon the Air Sea Rescue display takes place at 3p.m. followed by Bingo and Dog Show and more.
Coming up:
3th Aug - Bernie is opening her doors to us for a social night of food and merriment at her house at 8.30pm. We’ll meet in the Bridge beforehand to organise transport so try not to be late please. Bernie’s house is on the Ballynattin Road just past Vitra Tiles.
7th Aug – A day for all the family – a trip to the Zoo. Times to be confirmed. New additions to Dublin Zoo are White Crowned Mangabeys, a baby gorilla, baby giraffe and a King Ratsnake - so something for everyone.
10th Aug – Alphabet Night. This is a little exercise to get your brains going and open your eyes. Taking inspiration from the Photo Hunt tonight we’ll randomly pick out one half of the alphabet and you’ll be given half an hour to go out and take 13 photographs based on the letters given. You can do this individually or in groups of two or three but try get different photos to make for an interesting night. When you return we’ll have a look at them – should be interesting! We’ll schedule the other half of the Alphabet for another night.
17th Aug – Panel Night – anyone who is interested in doing Panels – this is a good night for you. Bring in about 30 photos each (4x6 or 5x7) and we’ll see if we can get 10 to gel. I’ll bring the butterfly photos we took in Donegal and we put together a panel of them as well.
21st Aug Sunday – Another day for all the family – a trip to Greenan Farm, Museum and Maze. There’s loads of things here - again something for eveyone. There's also a wild nature walk here with a chance of spotting wild deer, moorhens, frogs and dragonflies.
24th Aug B&W competition. Rules below. Also tonight we want to see the photos you didn’t put into the competition and we want to know why you choose the ones you did put in so bring them in on yer stick and we’ll have a full black and white night.
Paul will be running the Photo School for 6 weeks beginning 7th September 8.30pm-9.30pm. After the six weeks I’ll do two nights on Picasa 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.
Another competition in September - the first of it's kind for us - Digital Creation/Manipulation. Images digitally enhanced or altered to create an entirely different photograph. Removed images, inserted images and cloned images and the like may be used to create a completely different photograph. The finished entry must still appear to be a photograph - not an artistic impression or design.
Finally - for anyone who’s interested - as part of the Gorey Market House Craft and Design Festival the PPAI Photo Journalism exhibition is opening tonight in the Library, Civic Square in Gorey. It doesn’t say how long it’s on for and you can see the slideshow here: http://www.ppai.ie/slideshow-2011/
So in brief:
3rd – Wednesday Night at Bernie’s 8.30pm
7th – Trip to Zoo
10th – Alphabet Night
17th – Panels & Butterflies
21st – Trip to Greenan
24th – B&W competition
7th Sept – Photo School
September - Digital Creation/Manipulation Competition
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