Kilkenny Photographic Society - Co. Kilkenny, Ireland

Our next Club events are:

11th February 2010

Alternate Week Workshop: Why you should shoot raw.

This is the start of our alternate week workshops. This one is a workshop session with the title "An Introduction to Raw Processing", it will be held in the Home Rule Club at 8pm. It will cover some of the reasons for shooting in raw mode and how to process them. If you have a laptop bring it and some raw files from your camera to process. If you don't have a laptop that's fine too!

18th February 2010

Macro Night

This will be a workshop night on the subject of macro photography. Please bring your camera, tripod and any macro equipment you may have such as macro lenses, extension tubes or reversing rings. Please also bring some odd things to photograph as well!

25th February 2010

Alternate Week Workshop: Black and White Conversion with layers

This will be in the Home Rule Club at 8pm.

An exploration of B+W conversion techniques, dealing mainly with Photoshop and Lightroom

Liam Cahill will show how to take a raw colour image and optomise it for monochrome printing through a variety of techniques. The use of layers, masks, actions and plugins will be demonstrated and discussed as well as some different sharpening techniques

4th March 2010

Fire Painting

This will be an outdoor workshop with a fire painter in attendance. Time and place to be advised closer to the date.

11th March 2010

Alternate Week Workshop: How to use a light meter

This will be in the Home Rule Club at 8pm.

Current Exhibitions

The Kilkenny Photographic Society Exhibition, "Kilkenny and the Great War" was recently held at Kilkenny Castle to much acclaim. As a result, the exhibition toured the counties' libraries. At the moment it is not on display but it is scheduled to be in Loughboy Library for two weeks starting on January 26th.

It features old photographs from 1914-18 along with photographs of descendants now living in the area. The exhibition has proved very popular and illustrates to often-neglected story of Kilkenny people from all walks of life who were swept up in the maelstrom of life at that time. The great Irish historian Roy Foster has argued that the First World War is one of the most decisive events in the history of modern Ireland, one with a profound impact on Ireland's politics, economy, and society. Yet in spite of this the war remains an under-examined event, lacking the attention given to the Famine, the Home Rule campaign, and the Anglo-Irish War.

Tell Your Family Story:

Since the original exhibition was held in the Castle, more people have come forward with mementoes and old photographs from the time. The organisers are keen to cover as wide a spectrum as possible from local families whose relations took part in the Great War 1914-18. They are keen to hear from anyone with old photos, medals, etc which will be copied by the Society members and will form part of the ever-growing exhibition. Soldiers, nurses, Prisoners of War, clergy and even Kilkenny horses are featured in the exhibition, which is based on research by local historian John Kirwan. A contact form is available at the exhibition or, you can email your initial contact details to Richie Dwyer at rfdwyer@eircom.net or James Burke at info@biggerpictureweb.com who will follow up any leads.