Events in May

Photo Shoot Tuesday Evening, 7.30pm 3rd May.

As our usual monthly Photo Shoot date coincides with Easter Sunday and subsequently, the May Bank Holiday Weekend, the committee have opted to reschedule the April shoot to the EVENING of Tuesday 3rd May. Meet at St. Joseph's Resource Centre at 7.30pm.

We appreciate that this may not suit everyone, however, we intend to break into groups and visit a set of local sites to include; Derreen Wood, Boyle Railway Station, the Gaelic Chieftain, Forest Park and others. This will lapse into a low-light shooting situation so members are advised to bring tripods. Each group will be accompanied by at least one advanced member who will go through the process of finding a suitable scene, setting-up and composing the shot and finally, taking the shot. The shoot may also include work with flash.

Club Meeting Tuesday 10th May 8pm

This month's club meeting will include a presentation by Tony Murphy. Tony will discuss the often complex issue of 'LENSES'; focal length, crop factor, maximum aperture, and more. This will be a technical presentation for the purpose of demystifying the jargon associated with lenses and to help members make more informed choices when it comes to investing in 'glass' for your digital SLR.

The full agenda for the club meeting will be posted shortly.

Annual Weekend Photo Shoot - 13th to 15th May

As stated in an earlier post, this year Boyle Camera Club are going to Inishbofin. 20 members have signed up for a weekend of torture and hard graft as they come to grips with sucking the landscape dry with indulgent photographic endeavour! This is the club's third annual excursion and the event has proven to be a popular and productive engagement for members. The committee are grateful to Peter Boalch and Paraic Brennan for organising the event.

More detail disclosed at the club meeting on 10th May.

Annual Summer Exhibition

Members are asked to start preparing their images for this year's Annual Exhibition in association with Boyle Arts Festival. Members will submit up to THREE images, one image per member will be selected for the exhibition.

This year the theme is 'open', which means members can submit images on any subject. However, as a guide, we suggest that only one of your three images be a landscape. Generally speaking, in previous years, landscapes have tended to dominate the exhibition so this year we hope to exhibit a more diverse range of work which might include portraits, abstracts, low-light, still-life and other subject matter.

Members are reminded that we will require High-Resolution files of all entries for the purpose of printing, so ensure to keep your edits suitable for printing up to A4 in size.

More details on this in the run-up to the exhibition.

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We look forward to seeing you all on the 3rd of May.