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  • Michael McGrath
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    AedanC wrote:

    Hi MIchael,

    Welcome from another Kilkenny person…. Best and most detailed introduction I’ve ever heard.

    Aedan Coffey

    Hi Aiden, Coffey’s ” the Engineers ” ?
    ( I was one of the founders of Kilkenny Photographic Sociiety back in 1982 !
    – actually , Eamon Langton gave us a room at the time !
    The late County Sherrif Tom, T.G. ‘ The Pipe’ Crotty was one of the Founder Members too, Bless Him .

    Welcome round and we’ll talk shop sometime !!!

    Cheers,
    Michael .

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    Michael McGrath
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    Michael McGrath wrote:

    Thanks a Million,

    Michael .

    My own Councillor that I promoted in June, Cllr. Joe Malone, headed the poll first time out here, had it done, now he wants it done in his Councillors Robes as well , and says I can do it !!!

    Talk about VANITY, heh heh heh .
    But Joe is a Sound Man.

    Cheers,
    Michael .

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    Michael McGrath
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    Thanks a Million,

    Michael .

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    Michael McGrath
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    freshphoto wrote:

    I use two types of gear nikon d3x for general purpose work and a 5d mark ii occasionally for event photography, studio work like something thats going up big like 6 sheet for the side of the rroad etc i use a hasselblad H2 with a phase one back. The photos ur referring to are generally shot 14 or 16bit raw files converted to tiff in adobe 1998 or a specific profile and then printed on a non permanent fasson which is like a self adhesive plastic paper and applied to the car, when it comes to logos etc they are generally cut on a cad. and then applied hope thats some help to u and yes i would be happy to shoot ur advertising work and give u a 20percent comission for any work you put my way. Send me a link to your portrait and wedding work and ill send ur contanct details on to anyone that comes through the studio requesting portrait or weddings

    So, basically , They are a cad/cam job, I did a course in that in manufacturing technology in WIT, then more in Trinity, it doesn’t really matter whether they come off MF film or digital, but the actual film to be applied to the vehicle is stripped off the cardboard backing, as you do for canvass portraits ? I ask because I have a couple of relations who are politicians ( don’t blame me ! ), Liam Aylward MEP and Bobby Aylward TD, and I could also get the business from John McGruinness TD and Phil Hogan TD, amongst others, who are pals, I would shoot their photographs here in Kilkenny on the spot, but I would want to have somebody, perhaps like you, to then arrange to do the vehicles job ( John McGuinness has a fleet of transport trucks !!! ) , so maybe you could send me all the details in the post that I would need to cover so as to have the photos ready for you to have applied. I’m thinking that there are businessmen too I know , like Eamon Langton, who would love to have this process done permanently to their vehicles as well. Cheers, Michael .

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    Michael McGrath
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    Michael McGrath wrote:

    freshphoto wrote:

    I woud always oblige another photographer wherever possible, i dont often get a chance to come on here and rarely reply to anything, i run a good business in dublin shooting only commercial and advertising dont do weddings or portraits and only throwing my two cents in, how people read it or dont, thats their perogative, so ill leave u guys to it and im getting back to work now, but i have never been in any circle and will never be, my work stands up and thats why im busy so chow for now and i wish all u guys the best of luck.

    Thanks Freshphoto for that, so I’ll do all your family portraits, and you can have all my advertisingLOL

    Cheers,
    Michael.

    And now you might be able to tell me something I have wondered about – how do the politicians get their photographs laminated onto their cars and vans during election time ?

    And what cameras are used for their election posters ? Plate cameras ?

    Cheers,
    Michael .

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    Michael McGrath
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    freshphoto wrote:

    I woud always oblige another photographer wherever possible, i dont often get a chance to come on here and rarely reply to anything, i run a good business in dublin shooting only commercial and advertising dont do weddings or portraits and only throwing my two cents in, how people read it or dont, thats their perogative, so ill leave u guys to it and im getting back to work now, but i have never been in any circle and will never be, my work stands up and thats why im busy so chow for now and i wish all u guys the best of luck.

    Thanks Freshphoto for that, so I’ll do all your family portraits, and you can have all my advertisingLOL

    Cheers,
    Michael.

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    Michael McGrath
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    Michael McGrath wrote:

    freshphoto wrote:

    “What has insurance got to do with qualifications/distinctions??”

    You cannot obtain an LIPPA or pecome a member of the IPPA at all unless you are fully insured, so therefore it just helps to keep a little bit of control within the industry thats all. Im not sticking up for the IPPA nor do i socialise with them, but i dont think being a member aof any professional organisation does you any harm whatsoever, i would feel the same about the SFA.

    Yes, and the NUJ, and the Photographers Panel of the Chartered Institute of Journalists, and the Master Photographers Association, and the Royal Photographic Society and the…

    Really, once it does not involve a Closed Shop ( the Antithesis of Art ) fine, with the broad acceptance amongst photographers that we do not try to cut in on another person’s living !
    I remember back in 1981 I was called to Head Office of The Irish Times and offered another man’s job while he was still working at it !!!
    Naturally, I diplomatically declined. But I did tell the man whose job was concerned, and I hear that afterwards there was great commotion, heh heh heh .

    Cheers,
    Michael .

    BTW Many of you ( some over thirty years and more) will by now be rightly cheesed off of those gangs of guys with cameras and invading your local parish confirmations all over the country, threatening, abusing, and walking all over you and your families, friends and fellow parishioners. Is there any way of stopping them, No, except if you use your head.

    You can’t warn everybody about them , because then a lot of people on the day of the Confirmation will think that you are them, getting all mixed up, and avoiding you too like the plague – in your own Diocese too , ohmygod !

    ( And they do have a nasty habit of telling people quietly, behind your backs, in the Churchyard that they are with you, anyway ! )

    I remember the way Bernard Kelly of Waterford and I dealt with them years ago was that we preached at the school and to the parents the week before NOT TO PAY MONEY AT THE CHURCH TO ANYBODY !

    OK, we lost out a bit too – but they didn’t come back near Waterford or Kilkenny for years – people let them take all the photos they liked but steadfastly refused to pay them money on the spot !

    While we just calmly got on with our own bookings .

    ( I haven’t done Confirmations or Communions in years, but I presume they’re still around ) .

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    Michael McGrath
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    freshphoto wrote:

    “What has insurance got to do with qualifications/distinctions??”

    You cannot obtain an LIPPA or pecome a member of the IPPA at all unless you are fully insured, so therefore it just helps to keep a little bit of control within the industry thats all. Im not sticking up for the IPPA nor do i socialise with them, but i dont think being a member aof any professional organisation does you any harm whatsoever, i would feel the same about the SFA.

    Yes, and the NUJ, and the Photographers Panel of the Chartered Institute of Journalists, and the Master Photographers Association, and the Royal Photographic Society and the…

    Really, once it does not involve a Closed Shop ( the Antithesis of Art ) fine, with the broad acceptance amongst photographers that we do not try to cut in on another person’s living !
    I remember back in 1981 I was called to Head Office of The Irish Times and offered another man’s job while he was still working at it !!!
    Naturally, I diplomatically declined. But I did tell the man whose job was concerned, and I hear that afterwards there was great commotion, heh heh heh .

    Cheers,
    Michael .

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    Michael McGrath
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    jb7 wrote:

    Yes, great intro, a good read, welcome to the site-
    I think you’ll be sticking around-

    joseph

    Bracketing ?
    I worked for a dozen years for The Munster Express and never bracketted once, none of us did, we couldn’t afford it in those days, old Smokie Joe , Bless Him, would have gone on fire if he heard about anybody bracketting, and by the time we were able to afford to we had no need to bracket by then :-) Thanks JB .

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    Michael McGrath
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    Michael McGrath wrote:

    Michael McGrath wrote:

    Michael McGrath wrote:

    phillip wrote:

    Hi all, newbie here
    about me
    just got married
    work for architectural firm, mostly doing planning, and 3d modeling, photoshop
    just taken up photography as a hobby.
    have a panasonic dmc g1 with 15-45mm & 45-200mm lens
    i’ll be posting my first photos in the landscape section so have a look and please lots of criticism.

    many thanks
    phillip

    Hi Philip , sure there’ll be nobody left getting married by the time you’re a Big Pro !
    What will you do ?
    Ah, I have it, photograph the Kilkenny All-Ireland Champions then , of course, heh heh heh

    Welcome,

    Michael .

    And, Philip, if you want any help at all in Photography in Cork, go and ask Magill, he has a big warm heart, and Yes, if it’s good enough he would put your best landscape in DE PAPER .

    PS: We’ll call you – Bailey :-)

    Seriously, do you remember the time , years ago, when Bernie the Sandwich Board Man got himself elected , and went on to get the free false teeth over in the USA – well, a certain few characters, including a notorious Cork photographer pal of mine, set it all up and made a bomb out of the bookies :-)

    BILLY MAGILL , The Greatest Chancer of a Photographer in the Whole of Ireland – and the BEST :-)
    ( Give him my Best Regards )

    Cheers,
    Michael .

    To explain about Billy Magill, he is the only character I know that when he gave up the drink about a quarter of a century ago, his lifestyle actually grew wilder, his photography then knew no bounds as, though not drinking, he still drew his inpiration from the marvellous watering holes of Cork, and also from the cream of Irish journalists on De Paper . Magill would have been a rich man, but he could never bring himself to charge all his thousands of friends across Cork the full price ( or anything near it ! ) with the result that they have always kept coming to back to him in droves. Billy will, and has, tried every escapade imaginable, but never anything like that time when they rocked Ireland down in Cork by electing Bernie The Sandwich Board man as an Alderman of Cork City Council and destroying the bookies as they carefully laid out well-laid bets to achieve this, and brought Bernie up from number 50 in the rankings to Number 3 Hot Favourite on the Eve of the City Election to be elected – I believe Bernie headed the poll the following day, and Magill had excusive rights on Bernie for a long time after that :-)

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    Michael McGrath
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    Michael McGrath wrote:

    Michael McGrath wrote:

    phillip wrote:

    Hi all, newbie here
    about me
    just got married
    work for architectural firm, mostly doing planning, and 3d modeling, photoshop
    just taken up photography as a hobby.
    have a panasonic dmc g1 with 15-45mm & 45-200mm lens
    i’ll be posting my first photos in the landscape section so have a look and please lots of criticism.

    many thanks
    phillip

    Hi Philip , sure there’ll be nobody left getting married by the time you’re a Big Pro !
    What will you do ?
    Ah, I have it, photograph the Kilkenny All-Ireland Champions then , of course, heh heh heh

    Welcome,

    Michael .

    And, Philip, if you want any help at all in Photography in Cork, go and ask Magill, he has a big warm heart, and Yes, if it’s good enough he would put your best landscape in DE PAPER .

    PS: We’ll call you – Bailey :-)

    Seriously, do you remember the time , years ago, when Bernie the Sandwich Board Man got himself elected , and went on to get the free false teeth over in the USA – well, a certain few characters, including a notorious Cork photographer pal of mine, set it all up and made a bomb out of the bookies :-)

    BILLY MAGILL , The Greatest Chancer of a Photographer in the Whole of Ireland – and the BEST :-)
    ( Give him my Best Regards )

    Cheers,
    Michael .

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    Michael McGrath
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    Michael McGrath wrote:

    phillip wrote:

    Hi all, newbie here
    about me
    just got married
    work for architectural firm, mostly doing planning, and 3d modeling, photoshop
    just taken up photography as a hobby.
    have a panasonic dmc g1 with 15-45mm & 45-200mm lens
    i’ll be posting my first photos in the landscape section so have a look and please lots of criticism.

    many thanks
    phillip

    Hi Philip , sure there’ll be nobody left getting married by the time you’re a Big Pro !
    What will you do ?
    Ah, I have it, photograph the Kilkenny All-Ireland Champions then , of course, heh heh heh

    Welcome,

    Michael .

    PS: We’ll call you – Bailey :-)

    Seriously, do you remember the time , years ago, when Bernie the Sandwich Board Man got himself elected , and went on to get the free false teeth over in the USA – well, a certain few characters, including a notorious Cork photographer pal of mine, set it all up and made a bomb out of the bookies :-)

    BILLY MAGILL , The Greatest Chancer of a Photographer in the Whole of Ireland – and the BEST :-)
    ( Give him my Best Regards )

    Cheers,
    Michael .

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    Michael McGrath
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    phillip wrote:

    Hi all, newbie here
    about me
    just got married
    work for architectural firm, mostly doing planning, and 3d modeling, photoshop
    just taken up photography as a hobby.
    have a panasonic dmc g1 with 15-45mm & 45-200mm lens
    i’ll be posting my first photos in the landscape section so have a look and please lots of criticism.

    many thanks
    phillip

    Hi Philip , sure there’ll be nobody left getting married by the time you’re a Big Pro !
    What will you do ?
    Ah, I have it, photograph the Kilkenny All-Ireland Champions then , of course, heh heh heh

    Welcome,

    Michael .

    PS: We’ll call you – Bailey :-)

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    Michael McGrath
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    Pippatee wrote:

    Great to have you on board Michael … enjoyed the intro, and you have a great depth of experience and knowledge…. which I will be tapping into as often as possible :-)

    Philip

    Hi Philip, mouth-watering work, I see… I’ll hire you when I’m getting married, won’t be for a while yet, I’m only 62 :-)

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    Michael McGrath
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    Pippatee wrote:

    Great to have you on board Michael … enjoyed the intro, and you have a great depth of experience and knowledge…. which I will be tapping into as often as possible :-)

    Philip

    Thanks, Philip, no problem – IF I know it :-)

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