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ECCG ‘Silhouette’ Competition – 20/5/14

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photo: Finbarr O’Shea

Thirty one members attended the third internal competition of the year at the Midleton Park Hotel on Tuesday 20/5/14. The theme was ‘Silhouette’ which had members practically gasping for inspiration when it was first announced a couple of months back but as you can see in the slideshow below, interpretation was diverse among the twenty-three entries received.

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Number crunching: Anthony OConnor and Denis Barry by Karen Fleming

Following two viewings of the projected images, scores were awarded, checked and entered into our new results program. 1st, 2nd and 3rd in each Grade and overall, were projected ‘live’ on-screen as the results were recorded which made for a fascinating spectacle as competitors in the top places changed and interchanged as the process developed.  There were some tight battles in some grades and it was great to see some of our newest members feature in the top three of Grade C.

With the final results computed and checked, the winners and runners up were declared and it was no surprise to anyone to see Karen Fleming make it a hat-trick of wins for the year in Grade A. The results were as follows:

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Above photographs of the winners and runners up with Chairperson, Denis Barry, by Finbarr O’Shea and Mervyn Daly.

See all entries below. Mouse over the image to see and activate the slideshow control buttons and photographer’s details. Well done to everyone who entered. Enjoy.

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SACC Competition in Kilkenny

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On Sunday 22/3/14, myself and Finbarr O’Shea headed for Kilkenny for the Inter-Club competition run by Southern Association of Camera Clubs (SACC ).

There were sixteen clubs represented and the standard was very high. Each club could enter panels of ten prints in the colour and black competition and ten digital colour or black and white images in the projected competition. The prints were arranged in a certain format to form a panel while the digital images were projected in the sequence selected by the entrant. ECCG entered just one panel in the projected competition to ‘dip our toes’ in the water this time and we intend to enter the National Inter-Club Competition next May. On the day, the Cork Camera Club was the overall winner.

The SACC said they will bring UK photographer Tim Pile over this year for a series of talks to the various clubs. They also organise the ‘Celtic Challenge’ which will be to Spike Island and Gougane Barra this year.

When the work was done, we got out the cameras and headed for the Castle in the city center. On the way we stopped at St. Kieran’s College, where we got some great shots. We arrived at the river on time for a nice sunset.

We were very lucky with the day, blue skies, sunshine and the water was like glass!

Kevin Day

Mouse over the image below to see and activate the slideshow controls.

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How I Took That Shot – Karen Fleming

For the second time on the trot, Karen Fleming came out on top in Grade A in internal Group competitions. Her submission for the ‘Decay’ competition was a clock face with hands made from flowers. Here’s how she made it:

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“I originally had created a different shot but decided to to do something else instead as it was too similar to a previous shot from another competition. First, I was just going to do decayed flowers but then combined it with another idea I had in mind with old clocks. Having borrowed some old clock faces and clock mechanisms, I tried various different combinations ’till I eventually came up with the shot I submitted for the competition.”

“The shot was setup on my kitchen table beside the patio door so I had all natural light coming in and lighting it up. For the background The clock face was hung on a section of my garden fence that was destroyed in the recent storms. I just got a small nail to pin the flowers together to mimic the hands of the clock. I used toothpicks between the joins of the Boards to hang the petals to give the illusion they were falling from the decaying flower as time ticked by.”

“I took this image using my 24-105 lens on aperture of f20 ISO 200 2.5 seconds .”

See also:
How I took that Shot – Denis Barry
How I took that Shot – Joseph Keniry

 

ECCG ‘Decay’ Competition – 18/3/14

Tuesday 18/3/14 was competition night for ECCG with the judging of the second competition of the year which had the theme, ‘Decay’. There were twenty two entries, each with an interesting and unique interpretation of the theme.

The results were as follows:

Above photographs of the winners and runners up with Chariperson, Denis Barry by Finbarr O’Shea and Fidelma Read.

See all entries below. Mouse over the image to see and activate the slideshow control buttons.

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Well done to all who entered and to the worthy winners and runners up who each receive 12, 10 and 8 points, respectively, in each grade, towards the 2014 Photographer of the Year Competition.

See also:
How I took that Shot – Karen Fleming
How I took that Shot – Denis Barry
How I took that Shot – Joseph Keniry

 

How I Took That Shot – Karen Fleming

Karen Fleming took first place in Grade A, in the recent ‘Symmetry‘ competition with her geometrically and symmetrically correct image of smoke. Here’s how she made the image:

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“My image for the symmetry shot was a result of my kitchen, yet again, being pulled asunder :0) – but it has to be done to produce the images”.

“I set up my smoke shot using a black background and studio lights I have at home (desk lamps will suffice for anyone who doesn’t have studio lights)”.

“I stuck a lighted incense stick into a piece of blue-tac and placed it on the middle of the table. I placed a studio light at each side of the table to light the smoke. The image I used was shot at F5.6 ISO 100 1/200”.

“I then changed the colour of the smoke in Photoshop, duplicated the image and flipped it to mirror the original shot. Then I duplicated it again, inverted the duplication and joined the two together to get the final image”.

Well done Karen, excellently done. See full competition details here.
How I took that Shot – Finbarr O’Shea – winner Grade B
How I took that Shot – Jim O’Neill – winner Grade C