Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Club Meeting - Tuesday 13th April

Joe Kennedy - The Winner
This was a busy a varied meeting, despite the absence of our guest speaker Michael Ewing, who was unable to attend. Peter Boalch hosted the event which began with the presentation of this months Black & White Motivation, judged by local photographer and club member, John Reynolds.
John gave an excellent critique of a selection from this month's members images and subsequently demonstrated a variety of digital darkroom techniques on the most effective way to convert digital colour files to Black & White.
Later in the meeting, Tony Murphy gave a presentation on the subject of Autofocus - What it is, How it works and unravelling the multitude of camera settings in order to get the most out of this often misunderstood and under-utilised function of the digital SLR camera.

Members are asked to note the following dates for their calendars;

Sunday 18th April - Photo Shoot to Marble Arch Caves - Co. Fermanagh
Sunday 18th April - Photo Fest Ireland 2010 - Dublin Airport
Wednesday 24th & 25th April - IPF National Club Finals - Athlone
Wednesday 28th April - Committee Meeting

Tuesday 4th May - 'Nightscapes' Motivation Submission
Tuesday 11th May - Next Club Meeting, 8pm Royal Hotel, Boyle

Full Minutes from this month's meeting HERE.

TM

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