June Meeting Of Rainbow Camera Club

The Next Meeting of the Rainbow Camera Club will be held on Thursday 13th June in our usual spot of The Cabin, Rossinver, Co Leitrim from 8:00pm to 10:00pm. In the first part of the meeting Sligo-based photographer Peter Wilcock will be giving us a talk. Peter was a sports photographer with several UK newspapers, and is also a City & Guilds registered photography teacher. He was also the teacher of the class that produced the Timepiece photography exhibition on "Rossinver/Garrison Past and Present" that launched in the Gillaroo Centre in Garrison last Sunday week, and is now currently on display in the Ballagh Centre, Rossinver.

A reminder that the Motivational Theme chosen at last month's meeting was "Boats". Members are encouraged to interpret this theme in any way they see fit and to submit up to three photographs taken since the last meeting on this theme to rainbowcameraclub@gmail.com for inclusion in the slide-show to be shown in the second half of next week's meeting. Ideally resize your photos to 1024 pixels on the longest side. Please send them by midnight Monday 10th of June. There is a YouTube tutorial showing how to resize your images using Picasa. It is very much the same as the demonstration that given by Martin at the end of last month's meeting, and was put together by a member of the Boyle Camera Club, who also have monthly 'motivational themes'. The link is here.

Also a reminder that the 25 euro Annual Membership Fee (10 euro for junior members) for this year is now overdue. If you have not yet paid please try to rectify this at next week's meeting. And if you are having a problem paying it all at once, please talk to a committee member and we can arrange some sort of easy payment plan.

A Joint Photo Shoot with Boyle Camera Club has been arranged for Sunday 23rd June (time to be confirmed). They want to come up to our area, and have suggested that they would like to visit Fowley Falls in Rossinver (further up the road from The Cabin). Put this date in your diaries, and please come along if you are not doing anything else that day.

Finally a copy of the slide-show that was shown last month of the "Sky" motivation pictures members sent in has been put online on the Rainbow Camera Club's facebook page, and you should be able to view it by clicking here.

Club News

The Rainbow Camera  Club had a productive monthly meeting in The Cabin last Thursday evening (9th May). Many thanks to club member Pat Mullan who gave an interesting and informative demonstration on Shutter Priority for the first part of the meeting.

Pat Mullan helping club members set shutter speed

After the break a slideshow was given of members' photographs taken since the last meeting under the motivational theme "The Sky".  This slideshow will be put online in the near future.

This was followed by a demonstration by club member Martin Cooke on how to resize images using Picasa.For those members that missed this (or want a refresher) you can watch a YouTube video showing basically the same process here.

A reminder that the motivational theme chosen for the June slideshow is "Boats".  
 

Sligo-based photographer, Peter Wilcock, will be giving a talk in the first part of the June meeting, which will be held in The Cabin, Rossinver, Co Leitrim on Thursday 13th June, from 8:00pm to 10:00pm. You can see some of Peter's work at www.redbackphotography.co.uk

On Sunday 14th May seven club members met up for a club photoshoot at Glencar Waterfall, Co Leitrim. One of the photographs taken that is available on the club Flickr site here. Hopefully some of the members who attended the shoot have other photos that can be added to the Flickr site in the near future. Email them to the rainbowcameraclub gmail address if you have any.

APRIL MEETING REPORT

Thanks must be given to Rainbow Camera Club member, Deirdre Dillon Malone, who gave the members present a very informative demonstration on the effects of using different Aperture settings.

As can be seen in the photo below, using a large aperture (a smaller "F" number) means that only a small range of the image will be in focus, whereas using a small aperture (a larger "F" number) means that more of the image will be in focus.

This effect is often referred to as the Depth of Field. So, to get a greater depth of field (perhaps when photographing a landscape) it will be necessary to close the aperture down (use a large F number - or F-stop). When you want to make one object stand out (with the rest of the objects in the photo being out of focus and therefore less distracting) you will need to open the aperture (use a small F number). This can be particularly effective when you are taking a portrait shot of a single person.

In next month's meeting Rainbow Camera Club member, Pat Mullan will give a demonstration to the members present on Shutter Speed.

Finally, just a quick reminder that the motivational theme for this month is "The Sky". A reminder about this will be emailed to members a week or so before the next meeting, which will be held in The Cabin, Rossinver, Co Leitrim on Thursday, 9th May 2013, from 8 to 10pm.

April Club Meeting

Just a reminder that the next meeting of the cross border Rainbow Camera Club will be held this coming Thursday, 11th April, in our usual spot: The Cabin, Rossinver, Co Leitrim, from 8pm to 10pm. Hopefully as many as you as possible will be able to attend. New members are always welcome.

During the first part of this meeting Deirdre Dillon-Malone will be giving a demonstration of Aperture and how setting different apertures will effect the depth of field, allowing either more or less of the background (and foreground) to be in focus. Pat Mullan will hopefully assist her by connecting the camera via Live View to the television screen so that members will be able to see in real-time the effects from using different apertures.

Also a reminder that the Motivational Theme for this months photographs is Spring. Feel free to interpret this in any way you like (a few suggestions: lambs, Paddy's Day, Easter, daffodils - but it's entirely up to you how you interpret the theme). Please send up to three photographs by email to rainbowcameraclub@gmail.com by Midnight, Monday, 8th April. If possible resize your photos to 1024 pixels on their longest edge. A slideshow of the submitted photographs will be shown after the break.

As the slideshow will probably probably not be put  together until Wednesday, it is likely that your photographs may be accepted a little late - but this cannot be guaranteed so get them in on time if at all possible. If a member submits more than three photographs, it is possible that only three will be selected for the slideshow.

Hoping to see as many of you as possible on the night!

New Forum for Club Members

A new forum has been set up for paid up members of the Rainbow Camera Club.

You can view it here

March Meeting Feedback

Firstly a quick reminder that the motivation theme chosen by the club members was Spring. Members are encouraged to take new photographs before the April meeting (Thursday 11th April) with a theme around the spring season of the year, and to submit up to three of them for inclusion in the slideshow at that meeting. Ideally resize the photos so that they are no more than 1024 pixels on their longest side, and email them to rainbowcameraclub@gmail.com by midnight on Monday 8th April 2013

A slideshow showing the photographs submitted by club members for the March meeting has been added to Rainbow Camera Club's facebook page and should be visible from this link.

Finally, if any of you would like to re-watch the video shown at the March meeting about world famous photographer Don McCullin making the switch from film to digital at the age of 77 years it is currently available on YouTube here.

March Meeting

The cross-border Rainbow Camera Club shall be holding its next meeting in The Cabin, Rossinver, Co Leitrim on Thursday 14 March 2013 from 8:00pm to 10:00pm.

New members are always welcome; just come along on the night. If you want more details you can ring Martin in the Ballagh Centre, Rossinver (071 98 54030) or Pat Mullan (086 6027007) - note both of those numbers are Republic of Ireland.

At the February meeting it was agreed that the annual membership fee would be set at €25 for this year (no figure was agreed for junior members). If possible, could those members who have not yet paid, please bring their membership fee along to the meeting.

Members are invited to submit up to three photographs for inclusion in a slideshow to be shown in the second half of the next meeting. Ideally these should be new photographs taken since last month's meeting. Email your photographs to rainbowcameraclub@gmail.com by midnight next Monday (11 March 2013) if you want them included. It would be helpful if you could resize them to no more than 1024 pixels on their largest side before emailing them. Don't worry too much if you don't know how to resize an image - one of the items before the break at the March meeting will be a demonstration of image resizing.

Looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible on the night.