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This page is a log of all my Acceptances in the International FIAP affiliated salons. Hopefully it will grow over time.
From Wikipedia: FIAP is the Fédération Internationale de l’Art Photographique, (Eng. The International Federation of Photographic Art), and is an international organization of national associations of photography. More than 85 national associations are members, comprising nearly one million individual photographers.
A small group of photographers from Limerick have been getting together in the pub about once every few weeks to discuss FIAP Salon entries.
From Wikipedia: FIAP is the Fédération Internationale de l’Art Photographique, (Eng. The International Federation of Photographic Art), and is an international organization of national associations of photography. More than 85 national associations are members, comprising nearly one million individual photographers.
Just a quick note on the Southern Association of Camera Clubs (SACC) Inter-club competition that was held on 26th Feb 2012 in Carrick-on-suir. Limerick Camera club had three panels entered (Colour, Monochrome and Projected), and came third overall, which is a better result than any previous entry in my time at the club. Also, one of my images scored a perfect 20 out of 20 in the colour print section, which made me very happy indeed. Here’s the image:
Another club member, John Hickey, also scored 20/20 in the projected image section, with a georgeous image of two butterflies. Overall, a great day for the club! 🙂
Congrats to Mallow and Cork camera clubs for coming 1st and 2nd respectively.
Hi all,
I’m in the process of migrating the site over to a new design, as I found the old one was dreadfully slow on some devices. Please bear with me while I populate the galleries with images.
Regards,
Dave.
I had a bit of a disaster the other day with my PC. The main boot drive on my pc became corrupted, so the pc would boot, but would not stay up for long, giving me the BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) a few seconds after logging in. Normally this would be quite serious, in that I could have lost a load of data, had to wait to get a replacement drive, etc. etc. I’d just arrived back for a shoot, and had about 800 images I needed to go through, select the good ones, process, and get them delivered in a short timescale.
Well, as you may have have seen from previous articles, I’m rather interested in back-ups, and data redundancy, so no data was lost. I have 3 copies of everything, and 4 copies of critical data. So I didn’t lose sleep over having lost any data. The thing that could have concerned me next is the availability of a new hard drive to install the operating system onto to get the machine back up and running. I happened to have a spare 1Tb Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM drive on the shelf beside my PC. Unused, never initialised, never opened. Before I realised I had the spare however, I scoured the local PC-World and Maplin for a suitable drive. Any drive. PC World had no 7200RPM drives in stock at all. As for the prices for the 5400RPM drives, forget it. Then over to Maplin. They happened to have exactly what I wanted. A 1TB, Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM drive. I got 6 of these from overclockers.co.uk a few months ago for £29 each, or about €35. When the guy at Maplin told me how much they wanted for it, I nearly fell over. €130! On principle, I refused to pay that, and went home where I knew I had half a dozen old 160G drives that would do the job (albiet slowly) until I could get a proper replacement in from overclockers.co.uk. I could get 4 drives in about 3 days for the same money that the local Maplin were looking for for a single drive. It was when I was going through the stack of 160G drives, that I discovered the unused 1Tb drive.
A couple of hours later, I had Windows re-installed, along with Photoshop CS5 and Lightroon 3.4, so I was able to get the images processed and sent off in plenty of time.
I guess this has taught me a lesson. Keep spares. Whether it’s Compact Flash cards, flash guns, cameras, or hard drives. If you can afford to keep a spare, then keep a spare.
Since I got myself some new table-saw blades, along with the capability to cut acrylic/perspex, I thought I’d have a go at manufacturing a new, neater version of the tri-flash I designed last year. This one was going to be much smaller, and require less setup time.
I came across an interesting looking app in the app store called Photosmith. It’s described as “the iPad mobile companion for Adobe Lightroom®”. At €14.49, it was quite an expensive app, but since I’m interested in all types of tethering, especially those that go with my camera and software I’ve already purchased, such as Lightroom 3. The only piece of hardware that I was missing was the iPad Camera Connection kit, so I went into my local Apple store and picked one up for €29.
Continue reading “Photosmith and iPad Camera Connection Kit”
I recently gave a batch of batteries a punt on eBay. They were labelled as 3000mAh, and cost about €25 including shipping for 50. Now I realise that with current technology, it’s practically impossible to push the capacity of an AA form factor beyond 2500 mAh, but even if they came close to that, they’d still be pretty good value at 50c each. Even the deals in Aldi and Lidl usually work out at about €1 per cell. Continue reading “No-name eBay Batteries – Too Good to be True? Probably.”
The weather in Ireland is so unpredictable. I live in the mid west of Ireland about an hours drive from the coast of Clare. So when I decide to drive to the coast to do some landscape photography, it’s always a gamble. It’s even more of a gamble when I head off to a place that’s an hour-and-a-half or more. So, the other evening, myself and a regular photographic partner of mine, John Hickey, decided we’d head off to Fanore beach at about 8pm, which would get us to the coast with about an hour to sunset. As we drove, I had a good feeling about the weather. That doesn’t count for much, I’ve had good feelings before, only for the sun dive down behind a thick layer of misty clouds leaving the sky with as much colour as an old black-and-while TV. Continue reading “Fanore Beach Outing”
I just thought I’d post a quick update on my tri-flash setup, since I just took delivery of three high-voltage battery packs for the three 540EZ strobes I use in the setup. So, using a bit of duct-tape (or duck-tape, depending on where you’re from), I strapped ’em onto the light stand and hooked ’em up. Continue reading “Tri-Flash Update”