March
7th “How to make a Digital Slideshow”
March 14th “The Press Gang Slideshow” (Finally!!)
March 21st Project
Work “Rustic” & “Still Life Practical Session”
March 28th “ Annual Slide Competition”
Tutorial Classes
Continue
For anyone out there interested in Photography we are running a six week beginners course
from 8pm-9pm upstars in the Bridge Hotel, Arklow. This
course covers both Digital and Traditional photography comprising of
the following:
Understanding Menus & Features of the
Modern Camera
Design & Compositional Skills
Portrait
Landscape
Sports & Wildlife Photography
An Introduction to
Computer Imaging & Manipulation and Practical Workshops.
Fees for the course include full membership of the society for twelve
months and access to all the society resources. For
anymore details please e-mail tbps@eircom.net
The Society’s exhibitions continue in
the Arklow Business Enterprise Centre in Kilbride Industrial
Estate and everyone is welcome to drop in and have a look, no
fees and they’ll be happy to see you.
members
please see your e-mail for more details
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.
Sort
of like Woodstock
but without the hippies, either way a kick ass evening of
thumping Celtic Rock was had by all! Follow their Irish
tour on www.eldersmusic.com
Project
work returned with plastic. Willie kindly offered to give
us another lecture on Adobe Photoshop. He promised to go back to
the basics again, so no one could feel left behind on this
one.
21st
“What a load of VELUX”
Following
on from the success of last years camera school, Colum has once
again a sizable crew of egger beavers ready to follow the twenty
seven paths to true enlightenment. Now they have been
indoctrinated into the cult of the VELUX, there will be no
stopping them.
Tues 20th
“Teddy bears picnic”
Well
the three bears, Willie, Colly and Paulie, duly paid a visit to
our good friends in Enniscorthy Camera Club. Apart from
attending an intriguing lecture from Mark Sedgwick, and seeing
some excellent panels by the locals, we were royally treated to
a wonderful buffet of tea, sandwiches, cakes and biscuits. Many
thanks to Nicholas Egan for the kind invitation, and we
earnestly hope to be able to provide a reciprocal welcome when
Enniscorthy makes a return visit.
Sun 18th
“Stuck in the middle with you!”
So
the results were tallied and the scores announced. Mallow Camera
Club, the home team, swept the board. Little TBPS finished a
creditable 8th overall out of 14, but unfortunately
being outside the top five means we fail to make the National
Finals.All three
panels equated themselves fairly similarly, 7th
Monochrome, equal 7th Colour and 8th in
Slide. On the upside we were singled out for particular praise
from the National Secretary
of the I.P.F., Mr. Sean Casey, as being “a club of only two
years standing who exhibited a huge improvement in the quality
of their work”. Paul’s colour print “Goldfinch” also
received a special commendation.
So
what was learned? Firstly, that the printing and mounting of the
entries by the Society is the right approach, and in keeping
with what the “big boys” are doing. Secondly, we need to up
the quality of our work if we wish to finish higher in the
rankings, we also need a larger pool of images to choose from.
Thirdly, it is such a shame the event was so far away, as once
again members have been deprived of seeing some really high
class work. (No excuse’s next time though the finals are on in
Dublin)
14th
“Love me do, Love me don’t”
Well
tonight was the final shoot out saloon. Some would stay, some
would go, to Mallow that is. Many thanks to the members that
provided images on the evening, many apologies to those that
missed out. In the end the images fairly well picked themselves
and the consensus was that we had three pretty reasonable
panels. Onwards to battle!
7th
“That
80’s Show”
Well
after all the drama of beating San
Marino,
we sat down to make the hard decisions of picking our panels for
Mallow, and the National League. In the end we only managed to
complete the slide selection, but the process was most enjoyable
with a pleasant couple of hours spent mostly in the early
eighties. Many thanks to those members that brought slides on
the evening, though If you missed out and would like to be
considered please bring them along on Wednesday the 14th
as this is the absolute last chance to put your work forward for
Mallow!
Tonight
was our first big club competition of the year,
“Monochrome”, and once again many thanks to those members
that entered a high quality field of over thirty entries. Our
guest Judge for the evening was Adrian O’Brien, and as always
we remain exceptionally grateful for his support of the Society.
Members were treated not only to fair and knowledgeable
judgement but to an individual evaluation photo by photo, what a
service we provide here at the TBPS!
In
keeping with our record of first time winners, this time Julie
came first with a wonderful composition “Girl and Birds”.
Second was Willie Doyle, with Stewart and Colum in joint third.
A special word of commendation must be mentioned here for Willie
Doyle, hence forth called the “Bridesmaid”, who to my
record, has now finished second in “Portraiture”,
“Nature” and “Monochrome”. Any decent Competition Secretary
would surely have a photographer of the year prize, at this rate
Willie would surely be deserving it. See you in the winner’s
enclosure soon!
Well
it might have taken 210 minutes, but it’s bye bye Spur’s,
shame RobbieJ
24th
Project Work 'Wood'
17th
Flash Practical/Tutorial
10th
Robert finally 'volunteered' his time as guest speaker tonight
and showed us a film he was involved with a couple of years ago
with a team of people highlighting the facilities, or rather
lack of facilities at that time, for wheelchair access.
We're sure things have improved across the country and indeed
the world since then.
We also had our 'Flower' Project Work - odd time of the year to
have it but it sharpens your observation skills! But true
to form everyone had something to offer. Keep up the good
work!
3rd
Some very interesting images tonight of the primary colours of
light - Red, Yellow & Blue - swirls, murals, football
jerseys, fruit and bars made for a good talking point tonight.
