3rd'Prime
Time' - colours 'Red,
Yellow & Blue' are
the subject of the photo
10th “Presidential Address” & Project Work
“Flowers”
17th “Flash Photography Tutorial”
24th Project Work “Wood” & “The Press
Gang”
Slideshow
31st “Society Monochrome Competition”
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Any
members who would like their own webpage in our Gallery
pages please bring in photos or disc on a meeting night.
They will be returned the following week.
For
our final meeting of 2006, each member is requested to bring in
a print of their favourite photo, which they have taken, during
the year. They need not be mounted, all that is required is that
you give a brief description about how and why you took the
photo, simple eh!. (If you can’t make up your mind which is
you favourite, you can bring in as many as you want, as long as
you tell us about the photo) Any members not bringing in a photo
must pay a forfeit, that being the buying of one pint of
Guinness for Colum. So either we get Colum totally drunk or
people start brining in photos!
13th
“Christmas Party”
Well
tonight we gave all that photography stuff a rest for a change.
How about that Mr. President! All members welcomed to our Annual
Finger Food and Drinks Evening. We gathered downstairs in
the Bridge for 8:30, so don’t
be late, as otherwise I will eat all the nibblesJ!
So come along it should be a great night!
6th
“Flash through the looking glass”
Tonight
Paul completed his Christmas Lectures with part two on lenses.
Once again he managed to confuse all and sundry with a
bewildering array of optical instruments. General prognosis was
that 1) I love the lens that came with my camera, and 2) Santa,
please bring me an EF70/300 IS DO. The Canon shooters got to
road test a few of the lenses on show, although the lighting in
the room was not the best, which only highlights the importance
of having a good blaster, sorry flash gun, at your side.
Talking
of flash guns, Colum was able to solve the problem with
Theresa’s errant EX580. With this in mind we intend asking
Colum to give us a special lecture on the use of flash units
early in the New Year, so make sure you place your order for one
with Santa so you won’t be left out!
“Waiting for Micko”
Many congratulations to Theresa on finishing second runner up in
the Clarke Oil Calendar Competition. Be warned though Colum has
now put you down as a banker for the next Licentia Distinctions
in April, so you better get busy on that panel!
Once
again our judges for the Tommy Byrne Memorial Trophy were left
in an unenviable position, how to choose from the high quality
field of fifty one entries for the Society’s top photographic
prize. After long deliberation and the even tenser calculation
of results, the worthy winner was duly crowned. Peter’s
“Arklow Sunset” rightly achieved top prize for the
excellence of its composition and the stunning capture of the
sky afire. The standard has been set high and any aspirants for
Peter’s crown will have to work very hard over the next twelve
months if they intend to capture this trophy! The Society is
rightly proud of the quality of the work on display this evening
and we look forward to even greater successes in 2007, both for
individuals and in team competition.
Theresa
was just shaded out into second place with her “MillenniumMonument” while
Joy was overjoyed at achieving third spot for her “TropicalGarden” scene.
Maybe Colum will buy her that new camera now after all?
Special
thanks to May, Julie and Denis for being our extra special
judges for the evening and for their generous donation of
prizes.
So
in the end what did we learn? Well, he who always carries his
camera and does not miss Society meetings has a head start to
happiness (but talent doesn’t hurt either though)! Congratulations
again Peter!
22nd
“Violet and Vibrator’s”
Colum
finally gave lecture number three for the Intermediate
Certificate, which involved colour theory. Dealing with a
slightly giddy crowd, Colum manfully explained all things bright
and colourful. Detailing the primary colours, hues, shades and
luminance it proved to be a fairly technical study. At one stage
there was open revolt, with the audience asserting that a
“violet” curtain was indeed “muddy brown”. True to form
Colum expertly dodged the criticism and informed those
unbelieving scallywags that what we were looking at was a shade,
but that the real hue was violet! To round off
the lecture, Colum set us a challenge to be completed for early
January. Namely to produce a photo containing the three primary
colours (no hues or shades mind you) of Red, Blue and Yellow.
Just to make it a little more challenging the colours are the
subjects and not the objects that may be primary coloured, in
other words he would like to see an abstract. A photo of a beach
ball, or a teddy with a beach ball will be burnt at the stake!
With
the coming of the festive period, Paul brought in a bag of
tricks to show what to ask Santa for this Christmas. Most people
seemed particularly interested in the close focus filter or
dioptre, which can turn your telephoto lens into a macro lens.
But most amusement was generated by the “Artic Butterfly”
sensor cleaning system, I just can’t figure why something long
and with a vibrating head should generate such a reaction J
15th
“Medallion Man” Tonight was a great opportunity to
praise our heroes from Port Laoise. Both Stewart and Peter
(Julie unfortunately was unavailable) were roundly congratulated
for their success’s. Members also had a chance to see the two
club panel’s, with particular interest being shown in our
excellent colour panel. Looking forward to 2007 our next goal is
to a least qualify for the National League Finals, this will
really show we can start to mix it with the big boys!
Paul
was also chastised for calling TP, “TeePee”, and a small
bribe was conferred to ensure a non occurrence of the
inappropriate pseudonym. So thus forth the name will be “Flash
Power”, well she does need to be quick to track down those
rascal dogs!
8th
Preparation
for the IPF National Shield took place tonight with members
submitting their work for inclusion for Club Panels.
Once
again we remain in the debt of Willie for another excellently
researched and presented Photoshop seminar. This was his third
edition and focused mainly on work flow, particularly the use of
AdobeBridge.
Encompassing renaming files and preparation of slideshows he
also managed to squeeze in an exposure and sharpening routine
using LAB. We are looking forward to his next show already, but
we do have a request that he return the “Fab Four” to their
rightful spot on his desktop, nuff said!
Ines,
also returned to the fold, with the addition of a Sopy Alpha 100
and some excellent black and white portrait shots.
11th
“Intricate panelling and some fine sharpening”
Many
thanks to our guest lecturer for the evening, Mr Mark Sedgwick
FIPF EFIAP, who roundly entertained all present with his guide
on how to put a panel together. Afterwards was a session with
those members submitting work in November. By all accounts one
has a shoe in and another's nearly there, with one more still
looking for two more shots.
Mark also gave a brief tutorial on using LAB in Photoshop to
sharpen photographs, so it was really good to see the way those
in the know judge a photo!
6th
“What goes on on tour stays on tour”
The
Moonlight and Magic Evening seems to have been a great success,
with all the people I have spoken to having a wonderful evening!
So congratulations to the organisers who I am sure are glad of
the rest giving their huge commitment to the event over the last
three months, so take a bow!
If
you really want to know what scandal took place on the evening,
well your luck is out here, you should have bought a ticket. The
good news is that you will have the opportunity to do the same
again in 2007, so get in early and book you tickets as they are
sure to go like hot cakes due to the success of this year’s
event. You can be sure I have already booked mine, first class Santiago via Buenos AiresJ
4th
“Sexism rules!”
Well
since I was denied right of entry to this competition, I have
decided to boycott reporting the outcome! Or put another way,
since I was in theU.S.A., I don’t
know what happened!
Secretary
