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.