Celebrations at Blarney HQ!

To celebrate Blarney Photography Club’s victory in the 2018 SACC Interclub a special fixture was added to the regular Thursday club night. The Clubs unofficial HQ, The back bar in The Castle Hotel ( Johnnies ) was the venue for a great night of spirited celebration for the club. Have a look at slideshow below and […]

Blarney Win SACC Interclub 2018

Blarney Photography Club won the Southern Region Inter Club for 2018. This was our first time ever winning the overall award, having come 2nd in the previous two years. This is a great result for a club which was only formed in 2010. Competitions would like to acknowledge and thank our selectors, Paul Reidy, Eddie […]

Blarney Run SACC POTY & NPOTY

Left: SACC Chairman Mark Gorman presents Seamus Costello with the POTY and Seamus Scullane Award. Right: SACC Chairman Mark Gorman presents Pakie O’Donoghue with the SACC NPOTY Award. Nature Photographer of the Year SACC Saturday Jan 13th: To a delighted and packed Cabragh Wetlands Trust Building the winner of the 2017-2018 Nature Photographer of the year […]

Blarney Photography Club Christmas Dinner

Photographer of the Year

SACC Photographer of the Year Competition This competition, (previously known as the SACC Print & Projected Image Competition), is the SACC regional qualifying round for the IPF Photographer of the Year Competition. It is usually held in November followed by the IPF national finals in February. The best overall image in SACC region is awarded the Seamus Scullane […]

Open Night 2017

Super night at the 2017 Club Open Night

Hyperfocal Distance

Calculating and applying the hyperfocal point sounds more complicated than it actually is. What is it? Well, a lens can only focus precisely on one plane – sharpness gradually decreases either side of this distance. Roughly speaking, depth of field extends one-third in front of this point and two-thirds beyond it. Therefore, if you focus […]

NEW SEASON NEW MEMBERSHIP

Bring your photography to the next level in Blarney Photography Club! Open day on Thursday 14th Sept 2017 at 7.30pm in Scoil Mhuire Gan Smal, Blarney. NEW MEMBERS WELCOME! Come along and see if we can help you, open for new members ( Over 18 ) of all standards, beginners class on photography for 8 […]

Gunner’s Off Camera Flash

Those lucky few who attended on the eve of the long week-end were certainly very glad that they did and were treated to a really super presentation by the “Gunner”. The Gunner’s presentation introduced members to the concept of off camera flash, and using the Club’s new “tethered” system cable the audience were able to […]

Famous Foto of the Month

Guerillero heroico by Alberto Korda 1960 The day before Alberto Korda took his iconic photograph of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara, a ship had exploded in Havana Harbor, killing the crew and dozens of dockworkers. Covering the funeral for the newspaper Revolución, Korda focused on Fidel Castro, who in a fiery oration accused the U.S. of […]