Thursday, November 10, 2005
Wednesday 9 Nov 05
3.30 Met 2 ladies from the Limerick Art Society and their Chairperson at the pre -opening of their annual exhibition at LCGA.Had a glass of wine and some cheese and grapes on sticks while I chatted.
The society was set up in 1942 and their are currently 110 members. They organise one annual group show which is open to all members, all those who sumit are guarenteed to have at least one work exhibited (up to a total of three). Indeed this inclusivness is the ethos of the Society, all grades of those interested in the visual arts can join; from those who dont paint at all (for they are prdomently painters) for those who are regularly to be seen with brush in hand. Throughout the year they also organise demonstrations and talks and night of tutrials for members by professional artistsOne of the reasons for joining the ladies pointed out were that art is a solitary activity and in joing the group you get to speak to people with similar interests.
8.00 -10.00 Limerick Camera Club Mary I
The Limerick Camera club meets to give classes, lectures, run competitions, encourage beginners and discuss photography.
Tonights lecture was on digital photography by Eoin Stephenson from Ul. The talk mainly focused on photoshop, how to manipulate and correct images. Some of the infomation I knew before from pass classess and trying to figure stuff out on photoshop myself, but others i didnt. I think thats one of the tings with photshop its so vast you will only ever know so much, what you need to know, so dipping into someone elses hard one tricks is very valuable. Some of the things I learned are:
When sharpening an image (using unsharpen mask) so not as to degrade the image turn it to LAB mode, isolate B/W and sharpen.To make a coplor photo B/W boost the levels then turn to greyscale.The camera icon at the bottom of history takes a copy of a layer. There was also a very interesting discussion about ethics in digital photgraphy, with Eoin suggesting that digital phtography is the "truth you want to speak". Another nice quote from him is " Photographs are a language, they are elegant and they speak".
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