Club Meeting - Tuesday 20th January

Due to poor weather conditions, the January meeting was deferred from 13th to 20th January.

Welcome
The meeting was conducted as outlined in the agenda.

• Andy reminded members that annual subscription fees were now due. Membership fees are unchanged with subsidies existent for unwaged, pensioners and students. There is a monthly door fee for club meetings. This is €3 and covers the cost of renting the venue. In the case of visiting presenters, the door fee is €5.
• Members are asked to continue to add comments to the ‘Suggestion Box’ that will be available at each meeting.
• There was a Print Category for this month’s motivation which was judged by committee members. The next scheduled Print Motivation will be in April and Andy proposed that it be judged by a combined group consisting of a Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced member.
• Andy asked the question if at this point, one meeting per month is adequate to conduct club business. It had been suggested some time ago that perhaps the club should consider meeting formally every two weeks or twice monthly. Andy said he would post his proposal in the club Forum where members can voice their opinions in advance of any decision being made.
• Members are asked if they are aware of available venues, locally or other, to accommodate potential photography exhibitions over the course of the year.
• On a related subject, the club will have representation at the Boyle Enterprise Town 2015 event towards the end of February. More on this at the next meeting.

BCC Flickr Pool - Photo of the Month
Each month, club members registered with Flickr are encouraged to put their photos into the Boyle Camera Club Flickr Pool. From the pool, a committee member selects an image and discusses it at the beginning of the meeting. This month Joe Kennedy selected and discussed Des O’Dwyer’s blue-hour photo of St. Mel’s Cathedral in Longford and Brian Munnelly discussed Peter Kelly’s BW photo of a Parisian street scene.

Groups

John Walsh took the Beginners Group and gave a summary of the areas he and Peter Kelly covered during recent meetings as an introduced to Basic Photography Skills.
During the November meeting suggestions were taken from the group as to what topics should be covered. Suggestions included; better exposures, use of camera controls, use of photo editing software. The second half of the session introduced the group to shutter speed and how a cameras shutter mechanism works.
The December meeting continued to discuss shutter speed. Photographs taken at various shutter speeds were analysed. John and Peter spoke in more detail about the effects of shutter speed, how to choose the correct shutter speed and permissible shutter speeds for hand held shots. Subsequently, members were encouraged to try a number of shots at different shutters speeds and bring the results to the January meeting for a discussion.
The first half of the January session John reviewed shots where members had tried out skills learned in previous sessions. John moved on to explain Aperture; its effect on exposure and depth of field and the importance of correct focusing when using wide apertures. Beginners are asked to bring samples to next session for discussion where John will discuss in more detail how aperture and focal length effect depth of field.

Tony Murphy took Advanced and Intermediate members. The conversation continued on the subject of Photographic Typologies. Members are asked to present their finished project at the February meeting. More details in THIS POST.

Print Motivation - OPEN theme

This month’s Print Motivation was judged by Kit O’Connor and Brian Munnelly. The winners in each category are as follows;
Beginners - Tristan Otto, Intermediate - Ciara Maher and Advanced - Tony Murphy.

Projected Image Motivation - OPEN theme

This month’s Motivation was presented by Joe Kennedy and judged by Peter Kelly. The winners in each category are as follows;

Advanced

1. Des O'Dwyer - 'Seascape'
2. Joe Kennedy - 'Ram'
3. Margaret Dolan - 'It's All in the Timing'

Intermediate

1. Steve Dobson - 'Water World'
2. Marty Cooke - 'Dusty Trail'
3. Norman Little - 'Fun in the Park'

Beginner

1. Sally Moffatt - 'Reflections'
2. Margaret Mulligan - 'Spring Daffodils'
3. Tristan Otto - 'Snow Scene'

The February Motivation Theme is 'MORNING LIGHT'.
Only images taken AFTER 1st of October 2014 are eligible for Motivation entry!
Members can submit up to FOUR images.

A reminder also that the title of each photo should be;

"MEMBERS NAME - CATEGORY (Beg, Int, Adv), IMAGE TITLE and MEMBERSHIP NUMBER" e.g. “John Fox - Beg – Autumn Evening Reflection – 104.jpg”

Entries should be re-sized so that a landscape format photo is 1024 pixels wide or if in portrait format the photo is 600 pixels high.

February Motivation Entries on or before Friday 6th February to;

motivationpics@gmail.com

Conclusion

Next club meeting; Tuesday 10th February.
New (and former) members are always welcome.