Monthly Archives: October 2014

7th Worldwide Photowalk – 11th October 2014

Join the Largest Social Photography Event in the World!

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On Saturday, October 11, 2014, East Cork Camera Group will join similar groups around the world in Scott Kelby’s 7th Annual Worldwide Photowalk. Taking place in cities and towns around the world, photographers of all walks of life and skill levels gather together to socialise, share and inspire during this one-day, worldwide event.

The ECCG walk will take place in Midleton. We will meet and begin our walk at the car park of the Midleton Park Hotel at 11am and finish back at the Hotel again at 2pm for some refreshments. Anyone can take part but participants must be over 18 years and must register online before hand.

It’s completely free to participate in the walk, but this year participants are encouraged to donate as little as $1 to the Springs of Hope Orphanage in Kenya. You can make that $1 back and more by entering your favorite shot from your walk into a competition, with a chance to win amazing prizes from our sponsors.

So what are you waiting for? Click here to register for our walk, lace up your walking shoes, grab a camera and get ready to make history once again!

 

How I Took That Shot – Karen Fleming

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Taking first place in Group A for the fourth time on the trot this year, Karen Fleming chose a portrait of her son Aaron with his canine friend, Rosie. Here’s how she made the image:

Just before we broke from the club meetings for the summer we were given our final theme for our internal competition for the club year which was ‘Emotion’. We had a bit more time to capture our image this time round due to the summer break which was great because I had no idea what to do for it. As the summer ticked by I had a couple of ideas in mind but I still hadn’t shot anything. Then before I knew it the reminder for submission came in and I still didn’t have my image captured.

I was contemplating not entering an image for the competition ’till an idea was suggested to me. The day before submission I shot the idea and, though I got an image, I decided to shoot again just hours before the submission deadline. I borrowed my mother’s West Highland terrier puppy, Rosie, who my son Aaron is crazy about. I got a black sheet and hung it in the bay window in my living room. I set up two studio lights, one with a softbox and one we with a snoot. I got Aaron to play with Rosie and captured the shot.

Canon 5d
24-105 mm lens
ISO 400
f20 1/160 sec

Post production was basic levels and curves then converted to monochrome.

 

How I Took That Shot – Finbarr O’Shea

Coming into the ‘Emotion’ competition, Finbarr O’Shea had a first and two second placings in Grade B already under his belt this year. When the numbers were crunched in the ‘Emotion’ competition he came out on top again with the image below. This is his account of how the image came to be:

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My shot for the recent group competition “Emotion” was a portrait of my granddaughter Mikaela. The shot came about when my son Mark and Mikaela were reacting with one another in the kitchen.

I thought a square crop suited this picture best.

The camera settings for the shot were:

f5.6 1/60 sec 400 ISO, with speedlight flash, focal length 70mm.

– Finbarr

 

How I Took That Shot – Trevor O’Connell

Trevor O’Connell took his second first place of the year in Grade C in the recent Group ‘Emotion’ Competition with the image below. Here’s how he did it:

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This shot was a selfie!

Camera settings were –
Canon EOS 6d / 24 – 70mm lens @ 70mm
ISO 800
f/11
1/250 sec

For the shot, I was looking up at the sun and squinting. The camera was on a tripod with a shutter release cable attached.

In Photoshop, I cropped it a little and using layers I added the dark border, drained the colour except for the blue and sharpened the eye detail.

The tears were painted in using different layers with layer effects like drop shadow to and gradients to create the water drop effect. The reflection in the eyes is a seperate image of my daughter masked out so as most of it only appears in the pupil.

The rain streaks were applied using a rain brush i downloaded for free from the internet.

It was a bit of fun really and a nice way to pass an evening!!!!

– Trevor