Portlaoise Camera Club Exhibition 2016 will be officially launched this Wednesday 28th @ 7pm.
We will have local man Pat Critchley to officially open our clubs exhibition. Pat Critchley is a well known sportsman from Co. Laois. He has played at National League level in hurling, football and basketball. He is a member of Portlaoise GAA club, with whom he won 14 Laois senior county championships - seven each in hurling and football. He went on to win three Leinster and one All-Ireland club football championships with Portlaoise. Critchley also won one Limerick senior county football championship. Pat was awarded Laois's one and only hurling All-Star award in 1985. Pat was a physical education teacher at Presentation College, Portlaoise up until recently. Since 1985, he has coached school basketball teams to eleven All-Ireland finals, winning five, and led the school to an All-Ireland football title. Pat currently occupies a full-time coaching and development role with the Laois County Board and is the instigator of the successful Setanta Hurling program and the follow on Cuchulainn program. His autobiography is called "Hungry Hill".
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Portlaoise Camera Club Photographer Of The Year POTY 2016
Entries for our annual competition are now open and submission deadline will be midnight on 14th October 2016. Please read the following carefully and if you have any questions or require any clarification please email us as soon as possible. You can also view the information and past results on http://pccpoty.weebly.com/ Who can enter Only members of Portlaoise Camera Club who have an attendance of 25% or greater at club meetings can participate in the PCC Photographer Of The Year Competition which will be held on an annual basis. Minimum attendance for the year 2016 to date is 4 meetings. Categories There are 6 categories in this competition. Each photographer can enter up to 2 images in each category. Therefore the maximum number of images that a photographer can enter in the annual competition is 12. You don't have to enter 12 images but the more images you enter the better chance you have in the competition. The 6 Categories are as follows: A - Open Colour (Colour images only) B - Open Monochrome (Monochrome images only) C - Creative (Colour or Monochrome images) D - Travel/Life (Colour or Monochrome images) E - Nature/Wildlife (Colour or Monochrome images) F - Landscape/Seascape (Colour or Monochrome images) We will not be applying strict definitions (IPF or FIAP) to these categories however photographers should keep to the themes as best they can for each category as the judges might penalise images that do not roughly fit the theme. Images will not be disqualified for not fitting the theme but the judges might show a preference towards images that do comply strictly with the themes. Images This is a digital only competition so prints cannot be accepted. Images entered in previous Portlaoise Camera Club Photographer Of The Year Competitions are not eligible. Images must be emailed to [email protected] Please state how many images you are submitting to the competition in your email. If you intend to send more than one email with your images please state in your email "email 1 of 3" etc. Image dimensions must be kept between 1000 and 2400 pixels on the long side and must be in JPEG format . Examples of acceptable image dimensions: 1200px x 700px 900px x 1500px Image file sizes must be smaller than 2MBytes each. (Images that are too large or too small within reason might have to be rejected before judging). This is purely for the sake of ensuring that the email address is not "choked" by extremely large file sizes. Images must not have watermarks, logos or borders. This rule is important for the sake of ensuring a uniform look for the catalogue. Each image must be named with the category letter code that it is entered into, followed by photographers name and then the title of the image. (each criteria separated by a hyphen "-" ). Each image must have a title. e.g. F-joebloggs-therockatsunset.jpg Failure to name files correctly might lead to images being rejected. Judges will not be able to see the name of the photographer as this will be changed by the organising committee before judging. By entering images in this competition you are also giving Portlaoise Camera Club the right to possibly select these images for inclusion in any national or international club competition that Portlaoise Camera Club might be entering for as long as that photographer is a member of Portlaoise Camera Club. Judges There will be a panel of 3 judges from outside the club. Each judge will award up to 50 points for each image. There will be no discrimination between advanced, intermediate and beginner level photographers (everyone is competing against each other) except for the photographer of the year awards. Feedback for each image will not be given. Judging panel 2016: To be announced shortly Entry Fee Entry fee for the competition is €10 per photographer. Each photographer who pays the entry fee will receive a CD catalogue of images with a score sheet listing all accepted images . (Nobody will be able to see your scores other than you and the organisers of the competition) All fee paying entrants will also be invited to the Annual Awards Ceremony. Images will not be judged if the photographers entry fee has not been paid and the fee must be paid on or before the deadline date. Fees must only be paid in cash to the organising committee of the competition. Calendar Deadline for sending of images and payment of fee - 14th October 2016 Judging - November 2016 Presentation of awards, distinctions, catalogues and scores - 14th December 2016. Liability All judges decisions are final and cannot be questioned. Rules where necessary may have to be changed depending on the dynamics of the competition and in this case the organisers have the right to change these rules. Regards -- www.portlaoisecameraclub.com Wednesday 14th of September John Hooton will be our guest speaker,John is a renowned landscape and seascape fine art photographer who has published books and runs workshops on those subjects.
John will bring along some of his images in print form to display as part of the evening. This promises to be a good informative talk from an expert in the field so don't miss out. Marc Levoy is one of the foremost pioneers in digital imaging, and his work has led to many of the technical advances that we see in use today with computer generated imagery, so it’s no wonder that he jumped into digital photography! From 2009 until 2014, Levoy taught digital photography at Stanford. In 2016, he revised the course and taught it again at Google this Spring. Now, the entire revised course is available online completely FREE.http://www.diyphotography.net/stanford-professor-puts-entire-digital-photography-course-online-free/ |
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