Camera: Nikon D60
Lens: 18-70 mm
Focal Length: 18 mm
F-Stop: f/22
Shutter Speed: 6 sec
ISO: 100
Flash: Manual
Editing Program: Adobe Lightroom
Me and two of my friends went to an abandoned primary school in Kuwait city , Kuwait. The environment was so scary , it was dark and full of dust and broken doors and windows. For shooting this photo , I set the camera on a tripod , holding my flash in my hands (Manually) and asked my friend to hold 2 flashlights and start to runnig toward the camera and twirling the flash lights , and I was standing behind the camera firing the flash for several times towards him . The composition of the darkness, movement, twirling the flashlights, and the camera flashes was giving us a mindless freedom feeling , that’s why we titled it “Ecstasy”
-Abbas Almohri
Sony a390 18-70mm, f/5, 1/10s, ISO100
To take this shot i set up a tube of 35mm mylar from the cinema i work at, made by pushing the centre out of a roll of the stuff. This was taped to the hood of my lens. The lights are actually two Force FX lightsabers i had laying around the place which created this awesome reflection around the perforations in the film.
-Adam Robson
Camera used – Nokia 6303; I have no idea about the rest of the information.
Instead of trying to get a clear, vivid, picture with the camera on my phone, which was impossible, I decided to try the opposite. I tried to create a blurry, out-of-focus, shot that emphasised how a good camera does not always take a good picture, and vice-versa. Since the phone’s camera has no settings for flash or contrast (that I know of), I took the picture in a pitch-black room, in order to create as much blur and harsh tones as possible. The picture itself is of my face, which I took just by moving the camera around and not allowing it to focus. It took a few attempts with other objects (glasses, coins, etc.), but the effect produced from taking it of my own face was much more stark. I feel it looks somewhat ghostly, with a very pale complexion and eyes reflecting the flash, while appearing to melt.
-Alex Davies
Nikon D7000
1/250
F 20
ISO100
58mm (Nikkor 18-105mm lens)
I got my first dslr about a month and a half ago and I’ve been taking a huge interest in photography since then. One of the things that caught my eye was pictures of smoke and using flashes off camera. I finally bought my SB600 last week and got it today so i decided to give it a try and this picture was my favorite one of the day.
-Andres Martinez
Shot on a Canon 7D with the Canon 50mm f/1.4 at ISO-250, f/1.6, 1/60 sec.
I spent the long weekend on Guemes, one of the San Juan Islands off the Washington coast. This baby miniature donkey was one of the first things we saw as we drove off the ferry and the next morning we came back to see it again. It was absolutely fascinated by my friend’s dog which is the only reason it got close enough to get this photo.
-Ansel Santosa
Shot this on Black Friday during a walk in the woods with family. Icicles covered the trees and it felt like I was in a dream forest. It was challenging to protect the protect the camera with melting icicles and had to get a quick shot—which is what this turned out to be. Used a Nikon D3000, 1/1000 sec., f/8, iso 100.
-Anya Doshlygina
Pentax K-x with a Sigma DG 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 lens at 29mm and F 3.5. 1/13 sec., no flash, ISO 2000.
I took this picture out looking out the window at the end of a NYC Subway car on my way to see the Thanksgiving Day Parade, and naturally, take pictures of it. I was really just looking for a shot of the station receding away from the train as we went down the tunnel, but I didn’t factor in the reflection of the inside of the car on the window, and I ended up with this.
-Arnab Banerji
iPhone 4, ISO 200, f 2.8, 1/25
Been on Gizmodo for a long time as a viewer, now I’m submitting for the first time. I was just cleaning up at night when I saw the scissors and paper, and it gave me the idea for the ultimate Rock vs Paper vs Scissors Battle Royale. I ran outside to get a rock, placed them on my dining room table, whipped out my iPhone 4, and took around ten shots of the pecking order. I then tweaked it up a tiny bit on Lightroom 3. As you can see, Scissors
