Club Photoshoot - Thursday 19 September - Staring at 7:30pm

Just a quick note on foot of last week 's very interesting club meeting (and thanks to Padraig Thornton for his amazing slideshow)...

The motivational theme chosen for this month was "Car Lights At Night".

As a result it was decided that we would hold a club photoshoot next Thursday evening (19th September) starting at 7:30pm in Manorhamilton - during which members could practice or learn some of the skills that may be needed to produce such photographs in low light. All club members are welcome to attend.

Please meet in the car park at Manorhamilton Castle (on the Rossinver/Garrison road just opposite the children's play park) at 7:30pm. If you have a tripod please bring it along with you (a few members may have spare ones). It might also be a good idea to also bring wet weather gear (including a plastic bag for your camera) in case the night is not dry.

It is expected that we shall finish around 9:30. If you arrive late and are not sure where the group have gone you are welcome to text me on my mobile.

Hope to see you many of you on the night!

Marty
Club Secretary.

September News

(1) NEXT MEETING

Just a reminder that the next meeting of Rainbow Camera Club will be held on Thursday evening next, 12th September, from 8:00pm to 10:00pm in our usual venue of The Cabin, Rossinver, Co Leitrim.

In the first part of the meeting club member Padraig Thornton has very kindly offered to give us a talk (and possibly a slideshow) at that meeting about some of his nature photographs.

(2) MOTIVATIONAL THEME

In the second part of next Thursday's meeting a slideshow will be given of the photographs that club members have sent in under the motivational theme Roads which was chosen at last months meeting. Members are encouraged to send up to three images under this theme (which you may interpret in any way you see fit) to the club's email address (ranbowcameraclub @ gmail.com - remove the spaces) by midnight Monday 9th September for inclusion in the slideshow. Ideally resize your images to 1024 pixels on their longest edges before emailing them.

(3) IRISH PHOTOGRAPHIC FEDERATION (IPF)

In my last newsletter I mentioned a possible meeting that the IPF wished to hold in the area regarding the setting up of a Northwest branch. This meeting has now been confirmed for next Wednesday evening (11 Sept) in the Mill Park Hotel, just outside Donegal Town, starting at 8:00pm. Rainbow Camera Club members are welcome to attend. I shall be attending to represent the club anyway. The agenda I received is as follows:

1. Welcome and Introduction
2. "The Kingfishers" - the best of Irish Nature Photography,
     a slideshow presentation by Des Connors, FIPF
3. The structure and function of the Irish Photographic Federation,
    John Cuddihy, President, IPF
4. The need for a North West Region,
    Bob Morrison, FIPF
5. Establishing the North West Region.
6. Future plans
7. Conclusion.

That's all for now. I hope to see as many of you as possible at next Thursday's meeting.

Report from Club Meeting held Thursday, 8th August 2013

A few items of news after our Club meeting last Thursday evening...

1. Club member Sean Fox has kindly agreed to take over the role of Treasurer until the AGM in November.
   
2. The motivational theme chosen for this month is "Roads", so head out with your cameras and feel free to interpret this theme in any way you think fit! Members are encouraged to send up to three new images on the theme to this email address by midnight on the Monday before the September meeting for inclusion in the slide-show at that meeting. That means that you should send them by midnight Monday, 9th September. If possible resize your images to 1024 pixels on their longest edge.
   
3. Two slide-shows (for the motivational themes from the last two months) were shown at the Club meeting last Thursday. I hope to get copies of those onto the club's facebook page as soon as possible.
   
4. The Next Club Meeting will be held in The Cabin, Rossinver, Co Leitrim, on the evening of Thursday 12th September from 8:00pm to 10pm. Club member Padraig Thornton has very kindly offered to give us a talk (and possibly a slide-show) at this meeting about some of his nature photographs.
   
5. John Cuddihy, the President of Irish Photographic Federation (IPF) to which we are affiliated, has contacted me about a proposal to establish a North West Region for the IPF. He hopes to hold a meeting of interested clubs in the Mill Park Hotel just outside Donegal town on the evening of Wednesday 11th September. This is the night before our next Club meeting. I shall be attending this meeting on behalf of our club, but if any other club members would be interested watch this space and I shall give you firm details of the time and place once John Cuddihy gets back to me with them.
   
6. A reminder to all club members that we are looking for suggestions as to what you might like to see happening at our monthly meetings. Some suggestions were handed in at last week's meeting, but if you weren't there (or you were but have since thought of new suggestions) please send them to the club's gmail address (rainbowcameraclub @ gmail.com - remove the spaces) - or bring them to the September meeting).

Latest Rainbow Camera Club News

(1) Club Treasurer

Just to let you all know that our treasurer stepped down from the post at our club meeting of 11th July 2013. As a result that position is now vacant and we shall appoint a new treasurer at our next club meeting.

(2) August Meeting

Our next club meeting will be held on Thursday 8th August in The Cabin, Rossinver, Co Leitrim, from 8:00pm to 10:00pm. Details of the format of the August meeting are still to be confirmed.

(3) Motivational Theme for August Meeting

The motivational theme chosen at this month's meeting was "People".

A reminder that the whole idea behind these themes is to motivate members to go out and take new photographs between meetings. Feel free to interpret this theme in any way you like and you can submit up to 3 photographs to rainbowcameraclub@gmail.com by midnight, Monday 5th August for inclusion in the slideshow at the August meeting. If at all possible please resize your photographs to 1024 pixels on the longest side.

(4) Photographic Competition (Leitrim County Council)

Members may be interested in the following that has been taken from the Leitrim County Council website:-

"Leitrim Co. Council wish to promote the natural beauty of Co. Leitrim in a calendar. We need excellent photographs of the rich variety of landscapes enjoyed within the county while also reflecting the effect of four seasons.

We need the photos in reasonably high definition in electronic format and one print 8” x 10” (W x H) and your permission to use them in a calendar and to put them on public display.

·         8” x 10” Photograph – as high definition as possible ·         Your name, address, telephone number & Email Address ·         The name of the townland from where the photo was taken

Closing date is Sept. 6^th and entries should be marked “Photographic Competition” and submitted to Carmel Coll, Aras an Chontae, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim.

Prizes will be  €500 (1^st), €400 (2^nd), €300 (3^rd) and €100 for each of the nine other photos judged most suitable for inclusion in the calendar.

The decision of the judges will be final, canvassing will disqualify and all the entries will be placed on public display in the Dock in October where the results will be announced"

Full details are available on the Leitrim County Council website here.

Latest News

Following on from month's successful meeting, a few news items for you...

(1) Change of venue for the July Meeting

Please note that, due to the fact that The Cabin will not be available to us on the evening of July 11th, we shall be meeting at the New Ballagh Centre in Rossinver for that meeting.

(2) Motivational Theme for July Meeting

The motivational theme chosen at this month's meeting is "Catching A Moment".

A reminder that the whole idea behind these themes is to motivate members to go out and take new photographs between meetings. Feel free to interpret this theme in any way you like and you can submit up to 3 photographs to this address by midnight, Monday July 8th, for inclusion in the slideshow at the July meetingt. If at all possible please resize your photographs to 1024 pixels on the longest side.

If you are stuck for ideas have a look at the images from this Google search-results page.

(3) Slideshow of Submissions for the June Meeting ("Boats")

Talking of themes and slideshows I wish to apologise to Hilary Carson for omitting to include her photographs from the slideshow at this month's meeting. I have since added them and the whole slideshow is now available on the Rainbow Camera Club facebook page. You should be able to view it here.

(4) Possible Photography Course for Rainbow Camera Club Members

Sligo based photographer Peter Wilcock, who entertained club members at this month's meeting with a talk on "Composition" - along with an insight into some of his work as a press photographer in England - has kindly offered to facilitate a Digital Photography Course just for our own members if enough people are interested. At present the length of the course has not been decided, but Peter has offered to work with the participants over a number of days, perhaps once a week, perhaps weekday evening,s or daytime Saturday or Sundays, for sessions lasting three hours each. The cost of each session would be a total of 150euro - so the cost per person would depend on the number of participants. It was suggested that the course might culminate in to an exhibition.

Peter will be present at the July meeting to discuss this further, and to host a one-and-a-half hour shoot, so people can get an idea of what might be involved. You are welcome to bring your camera and any other equipment you may have on the night. Hopefully a decision can be made on the night as to whether this course will go ahead.

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.