This is my first submission to a shooting challenge, and was taken with my Canon PowerShot S95 at f/4, 1/1600 sec, ISO-100.
When I first saw the icicles in front of my house I was thinking stalagmites for this upside down challenge, but then I got bored and started trying to capture droplets. When I looked through the shots of the droplets I really liked the inverted views in the droplets, which of course were inverted again to right side up for this challenge. I really liked the view in the droplet on this one, since you can see the sun, other icicles, and the mountains in the background. I wanted to draw more attention to this so I used Picasa focal B&W, and am very pleased with the results.
– Lysle Turnbeaugh
hehe..I took the photo in my garden at night, lying upside down on the floor.. I wasn’t gonna submit it, but then I looked at it and imagined like some sort of giant pineapple or something flying through space.. with the light being fire 🙂 piuuusshh!!
Canon T2i Bulb Mode.
– Diego Ramirez
Camera: iPhone 3GS
Lens: iPhone 3GS
ISO-81
f/2.8
1/33s
To shoot an upside down picture with my iPhone, I grabbed it in an horizontal position with the Home button on my left hand (thats the “upside down” way). I used the iPhone’s native camera application, no apps like hipstamatic, instagram, camera+ were used.
THE STORY:
I went on a fishing trip with my friends, and while we waited for dinner, we decided to go to the shore and continue fishing as this amazing sunset started. Earlier that day, I shooted some upside down pictures for this challenge, but what made this one special, was the sunset and those two dogs that can be seen on the water reflection, but not on the “real” part of the picture.
– Juan Ugarte
Equipement:
Canon t1i, 18-55mm lens, F-stop f/14, 90 seconds exposure, ISO-100, focal length 18mm
I struggled to find something interesting in my home, as I decided to try the challenge at the last minute. I saw the wine glasses hanging upside down on my bar & started experimenting from there, without breaking anything…I thought it would be cool to pour into the glasses but for the sake of not making a mess I decided to use to some saran wrap to look like water. I figured with some long exposure I could make it look like water. I tried several different shots & this was the most interesting. Although this may work right side up, I believe the martini glasses give it enough “what the ….” to make one wonder which side is really up.
– Javier Valencia
Nikon D3000
18-55mm
ISO 220
F/4.8
1/30sec
I had a friend doing a handstand and another friend standing the right way to
see the contrast. And then I took the picture Upside Down 🙂
– Anna Albert
Along old Route 66 in Central Oklahoma stands this massive oak tree.
I tried to imagine what its sprawling root system would look like as it hangs on to Earth.
Its much easier to envision from this perspective.
Camera: Canon 40D
Lens: Tamron 18-75
ISO 100
Focal length:51mm
– Tanner Priddy
Took a visit to one of my favorite places this weekend [OKC bombing memorial] Love the reflecting pool; it creates this parallel universe effect that is mezmerizing. I kept turning my head trying to lose track of what was up/down and what was real/reflection.
Canon 30d, Tamron 10-24mm lens, f/3.5, ISO 800, Exposure: 0.8 sec, Focal length: 13mm
– Collin Fleck
I decided to take a trip up Mount Lemmon this past weekend, Tucson’s highest peak, attempting to both find a picture for this contest as well as finding some snow in the desert. This particular photo was taken from a cliff near Gates Pass, a well known Tucson landmark. I did find some snow and possibly the bottom of another planet.
Shooting Summary:
Nikon D70s
Sigma 28-300
ISO 250
f/5
– Zack Kutchin
Shot while on a hike this weekend with my S95 that I always keep on me. Happened upon this sign on one of the trails, and it felt like an obvious choice for this weeks challenge.
– Jody Abbott
Camera: Canon T1i
Lens: Canon 18-200IS @20mm
f 14
1/30 sec.
ISO: 100
I was out hiking this weekend on Jinnianshan just north of Taipei. I took my camera along with the hopes of capturing some cool illusion using the trail as the focus of my shot. Let’s just say that didn’t work out as I had hoped. I took a series of shots while relaxing on some boulders overlooking downtown. That’s Taipei 101 in the middle, and a plane taking off from Songshan airport on the bottom right. Thanks Giz.
– JT McGrath
Canon Rebel XS 18-55mm f/3.5 ISO 100
When I first read the challenge, I thought, hm, seems a little easy. Wrong. I couldn’t seem to catch anything creative enough. A trip to the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco got some of my creative juices flowing, and I got some pretty abstract shots. At the end of the night, I liked this photo the best. The museum has an aquarium tunnel, so I got this picture of two friends hanging around. Took me several tries to get a crisp enough shot, without it being to obvious this was a museum. I think it captures upside down, and adds an intimate element of friendship in wildlife.
– Asra Hussain
I had the ‘brilliant’ idea to fill some martini glasses with sticky,
colorful schnapps and flip them upside down for this weeks challenge.
I filled up the crystal glasses (almost to the top) with Blue Curacao,
Midori Melon (green), and Hurricane Mix (red), put them on a marble
slab, and flipped them over. Needless to say, half of the sticky,
bright staining liquid spilled all over the place. I peeled an orange
and used the peel, a flask, and a green cocktail shaker filled with
ice, right side up to show the difference between upside down and
right side up. I used a black t-shirt as a back drop, and had a key
light shining from the side and bounced the light off the stainless
steel flask to really brighten up the green Midori Melon. The glasses
were staggered in distance away from the camera; the high-ball glass
is in the middle and in focus and appears to be floating. The crystal
glasses and the marble slab on the bottom really reflect the colors
pretty amazingly.
After breaking a glass, staining the table, and creating a huge mess,
I ended up with this shot. The clean up for this shot took 10 times
as long as the set up, not to mention, I now have to sand and restain
the wood table which is now tie-died red, green, and blue.
Nikon D90, 50mm, f/2.8, ISO 200.
– Bryan Burra
Camera Equipment and Settings, Canon 7D, with a 24-105L, ISO 3200, f4.5, 1/40
I know it was mentioned in the article not to turn the camera around and take a shot. After taking a couple of shots with the camera upside down, I thought it would be interesting to see what that actually looked like. At first I held my camera steady with one hand and had the other on the shutter. I didn’t like the composition of that shot. I then discovered that i could hold my camera with the hand strap and use my other hand to adjust the focus and zoom. This lead to a cramped wrist and arm if I took too long to compose the shot.
– Robert Nakama
Thought it might be interesting to shoot some planes from directly
underneath, so I went to the local (San Carlos) airport and set up
pretty close to the fence near the end of the runway. Since it was the
first break in the weather for a while, it seems like it brought out a
lot of pilots, so I had lots of chances to catch takeoffs in a fairly
short period of time.
Shot with a Canon Rebel XS and a Tamron 18-270 VC lens at about 110mm.
I set it in aperture mode at f9, and it picked ISO 200 and 1/500th
second.
– Eric Kornblum
ISO 200
Shutter speed 1/2 second?
Aperture f/22?
Nikon 50mm 1.8 lens
I took out my Nikon FE film camera to test a roll out. I was searching for a
subject that didn’t look like it was simply flipped over using Photoshop. I set
myself near the road and took several pictures of cars at different shutter
speeds and different apertures.
I kind of liked the way this picture turned out. It’s abstract enough but has
enough elements where you can sort of make out the car.
– Sam Song
I was having trouble coming up with something creative for this shot, until my brother texted me – “Wanna go climbing?” I knew I’d be able to get *something* out of a climbing session… this shot is my brother hanging upside down on a bouldering wall, but with the camera turned upside down its hard to figure out what the “correct” orientation should be. Shot with Canon XTi & Tamron 17-50mm at 1/15s, f/2.8, ISO 1600.
-Shaun Wrightson
