Club Meeting Tuesday 14th May

The May club meeting very much followed the proposed agenda.

Opening the meeting, Chairperson Andy Rimmer commented on the positive local response to the club's recent exhibition at Coffey's in Carrick-on-Shannon. It was unfortunate that the proposed follow-up exhibition in Roscommon did not happen due to the venue being unavailable. That said, members should prepare their work for the club's annual exhibition during the Boyle Arts Festival. Full details regarding the submission of photographs in the post below.

The schedule for the Hot Air Balloons photo shoot this weekend, in association with The Gathering, has been posted on the forum. Members should make every effort to see this great spectacle at Lough Key Forest Park weither viewed close-up or from afar!

Roscommon Tourism have been in touch with Andy and are interested in promoting members images of the county. Members having appropriate images should contact Andy for details.

5-Minute Photo

Geoff Percy has set himself the challenge of photographing the waterfalls of the North West region and is in the process of compiling a series for black and white. Geoff showed some of his work from this project and discussed the shooting and post-production involved in making the images. Great subject matter and beautifully photographed too.

Presentation

Tony Murphy discussed shooting low-light interiors and exposure bracketing, a process whereby multiple varying exposures are produced to capture the full dynamic range of tones from a scene, then married in post-production to give an accurate and balanced result.

Motivation

Desmond O'Dwyer presented this month's Motivation. The theme for May was "Pattern". Brian Munnely judged entries and gave personal critiques on selected shots. Members entries HERE.

Top - 'All the Blue' by Martina Morris. Bottom Left -'Scarf' by Louise Pain and 'Jig-Saw' by Tony Murphy 

The winners in each category were;

Advanced

1. “Jig-Saw” - Tony Murphy
2. "Natures Patterns” - Matthew Gammon
3. “Building Blocks” - Jason Mallard

Intermediate

1. “All The Blues” - Martina Morris
2. “Inis Mór Wall” - Norman Little
3. “Wooden Pattern” - Margaret Dolan

Beginners

1. “Scarf” - Louise Pain
2. "On the Beach" - Lexie Monaghan
3. "You Looking at Me" - Noreen McNamara

Next month's motivation theme following on from Tony's talk and set by Brian Munnelly is Low-Light. Des has put some useful links on the club forum HERE.

Members should note that the new email address for motivation submissions is;

motivationpics@gmail.com 

Entries on or before Friday 7th June

Group Sessions

Beginners - Tony Murphy showed how to process a set of bracketed exposures using Layers and Masks in Adobe PhotoShop Elements.

Intermediate and Advanced - Following on from last month's session, Jason Mallard continued the subject  of editing RAW and JPEG image files.

Club Photo Shoot

As stated above, the balloons in Forest Park this weekend ... pray for favourable weather. We'll see you there?

Next Club Meeting - Tuesday 11th June at 8pm, St. Joseph's Resource Centre, Boyle. New members always welcome.

BCC Annual Exhibition as part of Boyle Arts Festival

Boyle Camera Club will host it's annual photography exhibition again this year at Boyle Library during the Arts Festival in July.

Members interested in exhibiting photographs should provide the selection committee with up to THREE titled photos at the next club meeting on Tuesday 11th of June. Photo's must be of high resolution, put on CD or Memory stick and given to Margaret or Debbie. We would appreciate if members could comply with the proposed submission date as we have a considerable amount of work to do; selection, printing, mounting, framing, hanging, catalogue, labelling, poster, etc ... before the opening of the exhibition.

A fee of €35 should accompany your submission. This will cover the cost of printing and framing the selected photo. Members will have their framed photo returned after the exhibition.

Photos will be printed to 16" x 10" approximately. Frame will be black box type with 3" white mount.

This is an OPEN exhibition. Photos can be submitted on any theme, colour or black & white.

Further details will be addressed at the meeting in June.

We look forward to seeing your work.

Agenda - Club Meeting Tuesday 14th May

The agenda for our May meeting is as follows;

• Chairperson address
• In this month's '5-minute slot', Geoff Percy will discuss one of his recent images.
• Presentation - Tony Murphy will discuss Low-light photography and Exposure Bracketing.
• Break
• Motivation - Presented by Des O'Dwyer and judged by Brian Munnelly. This month's Motivation, set by Hugh Rooney, is 'Pattern'. View members entries HERE.
• Group Sessions - Beginners will be led by Tony Murphy, Intermediate and Advanced Groups will combine and discuss shooting in RAW with Jason Mallard.

Other Issues

May Photo Shoot - Balloons in Forest Park.

Boyle Arts Festival Exhibition.

Meeting takes place at 8pm in St. Joseph's Resource Centre, Boyle.

We look forward to seeing you all there.

Inis Mór Weekend Away Photo Shoot 3rd - 5th May 2013

Home safe and sound on the pier at Rossaveal after the Inis Mór Photo Shoot

This year's Annual Weekend Away Photo Shoot took place on Inis Mór during the May Bank Holiday Weekend. On Friday afternoon, 16-members ferried out in choppy seas. It was unfortunate that the weather was not generous regarding good light but Saturday morning was glorious for our trek about Dún Aonghoas and the cliffs. That said, time was not wasted and as ever, the event was as much about having fun and relaxing with good friends as it was about taking photos. Boyle Camera Club would like to thank everyone on the island that made this another very memorable and enjoyable trip.
Martina is putting up some excellent photos from the weekend HERE, I hope other will do the same!