Mark Wilson, Author at Gizmodo

Shooting Challenge: Spring

I know, not all of you have spring right now. Some live in different climates. Some of you just feel like spring happened a month ago. Regardless, for this week’s Shooting Challenge, try to capture the feeling of spring, again. https://gizmodo.com/264-stupendous-spring-wallpapers-5515261 The Challenge Take a photo that says “spring” to you. That first fracture of…

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Shooting Challenge: Wiggle

I was just playing around with my violin while reading Gizmodo(I know, its really hard). I saw this, and was like, might as well. Sony DSC-S930 ISO 800, F 2.4. Avin Abraham I have experimenting with my sigma lens, when you flip it you can take macro shots and I find it so awesome. I…

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17 Brilliant 3D Photographs, No Special TVs or Glasses Required

You don’t need fancy plasmas or special shutter glasses to see 3D. All you need is a mental hack, showing two perspectives in quick succession. Here are the 17 entries to this week’s 3D Shooting Challenge. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-wiggle-3d-5895289 Winner: Payphone I thought this challenge would be a great reason to dust off my Panasonic m4/3 3D…

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Shooting Challenge: Wiggle 3D

You’ve photographed in 3D. And you photographed animated gifs. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’ll do both. You’ll create a 3D animated photo. https://gizmodo.com/35-phenomenal-photos-in-3d-5715632 The Challenge Take two photos and animate them in “wiggle 3D” style (or a similar method) to appear 3D. (That’s right, screw anaglyph! Pew pew to those glasses!) Your submission must…

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18 Photos That Show Tablets Still Make Lousy Cameras

Last week, I challenged Gizmodo readers to take some amazing photos with tablets. What I got was only a few entries from people who mostly lamented the experience. Sorry guys! But at least we followed up on a hunch. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-rise-of-the-tablet-cameras-5893215 Winner – Photo Boother I took this photo with my new iPad. I love the…

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Shooting Challenge: Rise of the Tablet Cameras

Sam Biddle declares you should never, ever take a photo with a tablet. Objection noted. But to celebrate the launch of the iPad 3—the first decent camera in an iPad—we’re going to do it anyway. https://gizmodo.com/the-first-new-ipad-camera-shots-pretty-good-but-dont-5893176 The Challenge Take a photo with a tablet. It can be an iPad (old or new) or Android machine.…

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36 Truly Awesome Photographs of Lasers

Lasers. They’re pretty much the most wonderful thing the Man has ever invented. So for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you shot lasers, and lasers shot you. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-lasers-5891206 Winner: Laser Man! Beams of light broke the foggy darkness. A figure emerged, his silhouette breaking the light. Who was he? A time traveler? A visitor from another…

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Shooting Challenge: LASERS

Pew pew. Click. Click. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’ll be unleashing lasers. The Challenge Take a photo that incorporates lasers somehow. WARNING: Use caution where you shine it. The Technique Many of you will be tempted to try light painting, and that’s fine. Lasers have a very specific point to make well-outlined subjects. But…

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47 Examples of What You Do When You Can Do Anything

Every week you create work in the extremely limited confines of a Shooting Challenge. But this week, you took photos however you wanted, creating art from your own perspective. Here’s what you do when you can do anything. Winner: The Beachcomber Last night was probably one of the greatest nights of my life. On the…

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Shooting Challenge: FREE FOR ALL!!

You take orders from me every week. But you’re no robot. You have visions, dreams and aspirations. You want to do things YOUR way. And you will. Because for this week’s Shooting Challenge, anything goes. The Challenge Shoot anything you want. With your camera, not a gun. I don’t have that sort of authority. Repeat,…

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40 Sharp and Shattered Photographs

We’re surrounded by broken things. But what if, instead of lamenting that it’s garbage, we changed our world view? What if we saw the broken as beautiful? For this week’s Shooting Challenge, Gizmodo photographers did just that. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-shattered-5887352 WINNER – Rise of the MP3 I wanted to find an image that captured the ‘beautiful abstraction’…

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Shooting Challenge: Shattered

Our world celebrates the perfect—smooth, virgin surfaces, on our bodies and possessions alike. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, make the broken beautiful. Capture an intricate shatter. The Challenge Capture something that’s shattered. Whatever you like. However you like. The only requirement is that a shatter is the subject of the photo. The Technique I know,…

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64 Pieces of Proof That the World Is Ending: It’s Raining Fire

What happens when you spin steel wool in the air? You can accidentally start a forest fire. Oh, and the photos turn out amazingly! https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-steel-wool-5885452 Winner – Waiting Out the Storm I’ve been wanting to take a photo like this with raining sparks for awhile now. Originally I had planned on using some 4th of…

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Shooting Challenge: Steel Wool

You ever see a photo that looks like it’s raining sparks? It was probably made through a trick with steel wool. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you can try the technique yourself, BUT CAREFULLY, AND AT YOUR OWN RISK! The Challenge Create a long exposure photograph of sparks, using the classic steel wool trick.…

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32 Photos of People Frozen in Time

The world is always spinning. But what if we could stop, just for a moment, and let it all wash over us? These 32 long exposure photographs from this week’s Shooting Challenge consider the possibilities. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-frozen-in-time-5883738 WINNER – Ferris Halo Amanda Reed waits in line to ride a ferris wheel at the Arizona Centennial festival…

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Shooting Challenge: Frozen In Time

We’re surrounded by motion everywhere we go. Yet cameras capture still images, single moments. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’ll capture a person frozen inside a bustling, kinetic world. The Challenge In a single long exposure photo, capture a blurry world with a single subject (or small group of related subjects) frozen together in time.…

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33 Photos Filled With Countless Clones

I’ve always wanted to swim in Duck Tales’ vault of gold. Alas, it’s not in my cards (and besides, diving into scraps of metal isn’t exactly good for the joints). These 33 photographs will need to do the trick. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-room-full-of-something-5881221 Dragon Slayer This stuffed dragon was mine when I was a kid. Recently, I asked…

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Shooting Challenge: Room Full of Something

This room is filled with millions…or is it? For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’ll fill a room with Scrooge McDuck levels of anything you like. But don’t worry. It’s an illusion. You won’t even make a [much of a] mess. The Challenge Fill a room (or any environment) with a single object (or thematic collection…

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13 New Best Picture Nominees

The Academy Awards: the final bastionary celebration of the non-YouTube-famous. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you created homages to your favorite films of the year. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-the-oscars-5879170 WINNER: The Adventures of Tintin My kids love Tintin. The movie that Steven and Peter did was very entertaining and well done. Here is our tribute to the character…

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Shooting Challenge: The Oscars

The Oscar nominations came out this week. And whatever you think of the awards themselves, the design, editing and directing talent of the nominees (and the snubbed films!) are staggering. This week, pick your favorite film, and create an homage. The Challenge Take a photo inspired by or paying tribute to a film from 2011.…

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Shooting Challenge: Spring

Shooting Challenge: Wiggle

17 Brilliant 3D Photographs, No Special TVs or Glasses Required

Shooting Challenge: Wiggle 3D

18 Photos That Show Tablets Still Make Lousy Cameras

Shooting Challenge: Rise of the Tablet Cameras

36 Truly Awesome Photographs of Lasers

Shooting Challenge: LASERS

47 Examples of What You Do When You Can Do Anything

Shooting Challenge: FREE FOR ALL!!

40 Sharp and Shattered Photographs

Shooting Challenge: Shattered

64 Pieces of Proof That the World Is Ending: It’s Raining Fire

Shooting Challenge: Steel Wool

32 Photos of People Frozen in Time

Shooting Challenge: Frozen In Time

33 Photos Filled With Countless Clones

Shooting Challenge: Room Full of Something

13 New Best Picture Nominees

Shooting Challenge: The Oscars

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