Shooting Challenge: Inked

Shooting Challenge: Inked

Taking photos of other people’s art is generally not good photographic practice. But what about when art melds with the human form? For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’re going to photograph a tattoo.

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Shooting Challenge: One Color

Shooting Challenge: One Color

Last week, you showed off your monochrome skills in classic silver. This week, you’ll take a photo in a different way: Find a scene that’s predominantly one color, and capture that color to its fullest.

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Shooting Challenge: Lens Reflections

Shooting Challenge: Lens Reflections

Your city has a beautiful skyline, and with a couple of cameras you can capture a truly unique perspective of the office towers and skyscrapers that give it its distinctive silhouette. But why stop there? For this week’s Shooting Challenge we want you to capture an image—anything you can think of—as reflected in your camera’s lens.

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Shooting Challenge: Grill

Shooting Challenge: Grill

Yes, most food photography is boring. But most food photography doesn’t involve meat, flames, and char. So for this week’s Shooting Challenge, I want you to photograph food in flaming action. Photograph food on the grill.

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Shooting Challenge: Giant Plants!

Shooting Challenge: Giant Plants!

Last week, we looked at bugs. This week, I’m sending you back into the bush to catch more of nature’s nuance on the macro level. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, photograph the wonder of plants.

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75 Close-Ups Of Bugs

Up close, bugs are terrifying. Heck, from far, bugs are terrifying. But with the safe distance through the lens of a camera? They’re amazing.

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Shooting Challenge: Insects And Other Creepy Crawlies

Shooting Challenge: Insects And Other Creepy Crawlies

This is it. My favorite annual Shooting Challenge of the year. You go out into the grass and muck and photograph bugs.

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8 Photos Of Wet, Wet Water Fights

My mother always told me, if you’re going to pick a fight, do it in water.

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Shooting Challenge: Water Fight

Shooting Challenge: Water Fight

Summer’s in full swing. So it’s time to make excuses. Excuses to use your camera, to be immature, and to hit somebody consentingly in the face with a water balloon.

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Shooting Challenge: Fireworks

Shooting Challenge: Fireworks

Say what you will about Americans, but we are really, really good at blowing things up. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge—and the 4th of July!—we’re going to celebrate that in our traditional fashion.

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