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Shooting Challenge: Black Card Photography

This lead photo isn’t HDR photography. Photoshop wasn’t implemented to mix multiple shots. It was captured in a single exposure, and for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’ll learn the technique. The Challenge Take a photo mixing various levels of luminescence with the black card technique. Don’t mix multiple exposures in Photoshop. In fact, don’t mess…

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57 Spectacular LEGO Scenes

We’d like to think that, one day, the word “LEGO” will by synonymous with “high art.” Even if that day never comes, these LEGO photos are absolutely fantastic all the same. WINNER – Dreaming of a Real Ocean I was inspired by some of the success people have had taking pictures of Lego creations set…

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Give $1 to Stop Terminators. Seriously.

There’s nothing you can do to prevent another Terminator movie. But if you have a buck, you can do something to stop real Terminators…or at least ensure that they’ll like us when they show up. The Singularity Institute is a research organization that’s as forward-thinking as most Gizmodo readers (read: sci-fi nerds). Give $1 They…

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Shooting Challenge: LEGO

For every single Shooting Challenge, at least one or two participants include a LEGO photo. Well for this week, we give in. We’re celebrating LEGO and only LEGO. The Challenge Photograph LEGO. It can be a scene of miniatures or just some artsy interpretation of the form. The only requirement is to have fun! (But…

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27 Pictures Made of Other Pictures

For thousands of years, Man made mosaics through shards of clay and ceramic, likely the artistic result of reusing broken pots. Today, we do the same thing, but with our leftover digital content: photos. Lead Shot and Winner – Digitized This challenge got me to thinking about my phone. I take lots of pics with…

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Shooting Challenge: Photomosaics

One photo made of many photos. Simple tools can create the effect, but can you defy what’s become cliché? That’s the question we pose to you for this week’s Shooting Challenge. The Challenge Create a photomosaic, a photo made of several smaller photos. (It can be a few. It can be thousands.) However! Make sure…

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19 Objects Cloned by Light

You know that special Mortal Kombat kick where there are, like, multiple Johnny Cages? Well, by firing a flash a bunch of times during one photo, you can create Johnny Cage kicks out of anything. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-its-stroboscopic-5782480 WINNER and Lead Shot – Hot Wheels So, I’ve been wanting to submit a Shooting Challenge for several weeks…

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Video Challenge: The Next Star Wars Trailer

The last Star Wars movies may have been a letdown, but it’s time to move on. In fact, it’s time to stop blaming Lucas altogether…because maybe you can do better. Maybe you can make your own Star Wars-level sci-fi creation. https://gizmodo.com/its-time-to-forgive-george-lucas-5664218 Read This First Even though Star Wars is iconic, Warner Music isn’t keen on…

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28 Videos Played Backwards

For this month’s Video Challenge, we asked you to play with video reversal – backwards playback. What did we learn? You’re obsessed with coffee and the word “love.” Of course, coffee made it to the finals while love did not. Lead Video and Winner – Coin Trick Shot on Panasonic GH1 at 60fps, conformed to…

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Shooting Challenge: It’s Stroboscopic

Most photos are of one image of one subject in one spot. But what if, in a single exposure, in a single frame, you could capture more than one image? Well you can through stroboscopic photography (aka repeating flash). The Challenge Take a photo with a repeating flash. In other words, take a single exposure…

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32 Epic Photographs

BIG EXCITING PHOTOS!! Yup. We busted out the full caps. After all, we are talking about the 32 entries in this week’s Epic Shooting Challenge. Lead shot and WINNER – Inception Late Wednesday my wife and I decided to spend the evening in Manhattan. It was cold, overcast and getting dark so we thought maybe…

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Did Your Donation Really Reach Japan? (Probably Not.)

UPDATE: Japan has requested what looks to be limited foreign aid. So far, that call still seems to exclude several nonprofit aid groups. UPDATE 2: The ARC now looks to be involved at some capacity, according to the US Airforce. UPDATE 3: You can donate directly to the Japanese Red Cross, who is bearing the…

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Shooting Challenge: Epic

The popular tastes of photography have changed. Blame advertisers or digital processing, but simple and understated are often written off as boring. Today, we’re not out to buck that trend. Rather, we’ll embrace it instead. Go big or go home. The Challenge Take an epic photograph – visual hyperbole – think Hollywood, the Superbowl and…

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91 Common Objects As You’ve Never Seen Them Before

Here are 91 everyday objects, photographed by Gizmodo readers. Can you identify them? (Seriously, can you help identify them? Several don’t have answers!) Winner and Lead Shot Rain, Rain, Go Away! Yeah, I was stuck inside, so I was taking lots of pictures of kitchen stuff. This is a fork on my dinner table. This…

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Shooting Challenge: UPO

If a UFO is an unidentified flying object, then this week’s Shooting Challenge celebrates UPOs, or unidentified photographed objects. Don’t get what I mean? Think of it as a game… The Challenge Photograph something in a way you’ve NEVER seen it photographed before, in a way that makes it difficult to know what we’re looking…

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77 Upside Down Photos

The world looks different upside down…and it’s not always just that it looks upside down. Things look…different…sometimes even weightless. And 86 photos from this week’s Shooting Challenge celebrate that phenomenon, without the head rush. Lead Shot – Spacicle When I first saw the icicles in front of my house I was thinking stalagmites for this…

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Shooting Challenge: Upside Down

As a child, I’d lay on the carpet with my head flipped upside down, viewing the room anew. I have the feeling, I’m not the only one. So for this week’s Shooting Challenge, we’re flipping it upside down. The Challenge Take an upside down photograph. Note: don’t just flip it over in post production. Try…

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120 Striking Street Photos

In 100 years, we’ll still appreciate black and white street photography. I mean, it’ll fly at our retinas at warp 9 and we’ll be tasting it via synesthetic implants, but it’ll still be in black and white. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-b-w-street-photography-5761971 WINNER – Woman on the Street My name is Alessandro Schneider and im from Munich Germany Studying…

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Video Challenge: Rewind

One of the brilliant things about video is that it can be played back in reverse. And if you’re clever about it, no one is any the wiser…unless you want them to be. The Challenge For this month’s Video Challenge, create a video that celebrates footage played back in reverse. Your entire video need not…

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Shooting Challenge: B&W Street Photography

We may see the world in color, but something about black and white street photography catches a different essence of the human experience. The Challenge For this week’s Shooting Challenge, we’re celebrating street photography. Take a candid photo of someone on the street…and do so in black and white (because black and white looks amazing…

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Shooting Challenge: Black Card Photography

57 Spectacular LEGO Scenes

Give $1 to Stop Terminators. Seriously.

Shooting Challenge: LEGO

27 Pictures Made of Other Pictures

Shooting Challenge: Photomosaics

19 Objects Cloned by Light

Video Challenge: The Next Star Wars Trailer

28 Videos Played Backwards

Shooting Challenge: It’s Stroboscopic

32 Epic Photographs

Did Your Donation Really Reach Japan? (Probably Not.)

Shooting Challenge: Epic

91 Common Objects As You’ve Never Seen Them Before

Shooting Challenge: UPO

77 Upside Down Photos

Shooting Challenge: Upside Down

120 Striking Street Photos

Video Challenge: Rewind

Shooting Challenge: B&W Street Photography

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