For this week’s Shooting Challenge, 168 of you were brave enough to not only share your photography, but to share a little piece of yourself with it. The results are sometimes funny, sometimes haunting and sometimes beautiful. More »
Digital photography is clear, convenient and remarkably predictable. But film, particularly loaded into a pinhole camera, can be rough, murky and inherently retrospective. The 22 results of this Shooting Challenge are an excellent homage to the quirks of the medium. More »
For this week’s Shooting Challenge, I asked you to shoot whatever you wanted. As the 116 photos that follow prove, this was a great decision. More »
For this week’s Shooting Challenge, we’ve brought in a special guest judge. Martin Waugh is not only a master of catching water drops in flight; he’s oft-labeled the inventor of the “drop collision” shot. More »
Some pictures capture a moment. Others capture a story. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, I asked you to stage a scene. Your results were sometimes funny, sometimes beautiful, sometimes sad and always worthwhile. More »
In this week’s Shooting Challenge, 264 photos submitted by our readers capture everything wonderful about spring. Take your time to check them all out—it’s a real treat. This is the absolute best group of entries yet. More »
We’ve all viewed our share of photography through a mirror, but I can almost promise that the entries in this week’s Shooting Challenge: Reflection in a Mirror have a few tricks you’ve never seen before. More »
You need to look at these photos. The 167 entries in this week’s “Monotone” Shooting Challenge are of a completely humbling, professional quality.
“My Bokeh and Blue painting… This is actually just a macro shot of some left over paint from this weekend’s home improvement episode. I used 1 SB800 and 1 SB600 at +1 EV in TTL bouncing off ceiling which helped create the bokeh and shadows.”
Camera: Nikon D300
Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture: f/8.0
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
– Patrick Tully
“The subject here is some hand soap shot with a Canon Rebel XTI with a 60mm macro lens at f/5 , 1/125s and 100 ISO.”
– Sebastien Grobelny
“A cardboard box with the head of the lamp facing up.
A red piece of paper was then used to cover the lamp to make the light red.
A clear folder with white paper inserted was placed on top of the box to diffuse the light as much as possible.
A glass plate was then placed on top of the folder, the plate was then filled with Schweppes Raspberry Flavour soda and two tablespoons of liquid detergent.
A small straw was then used to blow bubbles.”
Camera Used: Canon 450D
Lens: Canon 16-35mm f2.8 L I USM
ISO: 100
Exposure time : 1/125 sec
– David Juhn
“This photo was shot around 4:30 PM just before my plane dropped below the clouds into SeaTac Int’l airport. It was shot with my iPhone 3GS at f/2.8 at 1/2500 of a second with an ISO of 70 and a focal length of 3.9mm. In Photoshop CS2 I did a color balance adjustment layer to get the bronze appearance. Although shot in color, the original had an appearance of mostly grayscale. I did have a Canon G9 with me, but was in the process of shutting things down when I saw this view and decided to capture it with what was in my hand.”
– Steve Everist
“Used a canon powershot digital camera with 8 megapixels.ISO 800. no flash.”
– Chrissy McAlpin
“Setup: These are Chinese porcelain figurines about six inches high, sitting in a white Ikea Billy bookcase. The “sun” behind them is a spherical globe lamp with an orange CFL bulb in it. “
Camera: Nothing special. It’s a 10mp Fuji Finepix s5700 set to “super macro” mode. ISO 64 2.3″ F 4.5.
– Phillip Gullett
“Taken with my D40 and the kit 18-55mm lens. The blue sky, and blue water was beautiful, and the clouds and water on the rocks just made me take this shot.”
[Ed note: It’s not one color, but the limited, specific palette is striking. It’s also one of a relative handful of entries that ventured into a wide shot rather than macro.]
– Leigh McCulloch
Note: There are three galleries this week since we had so many entries. Wonderful!
Thanks again for all the participants of this week’s Shooting Challenge. Stay tuned for the next challenge, which will be announced Wednesday.
And for those of you looking for your next wallpaper, we’ll attempt to get these uploaded in full rez by tomorrow. Intern Kevin Lee assembled these galleries, and as you might expect, it’s a lot of work.
For this week’s Shooting Challenge, I asked you to capture a photography by the light of just one candle. Your response, as always, was remarkable.
“Taken with a tripod mounted Canon XSi with a Canon 50mm f1.8 and an extension tube. Exposure was f/2 @ 1/50s, ISO 320.”
[Ed note: Close call, given the Portal shot in the galleries.]
-Adam Carlson
“This was “shot” using my Canon 7D with the 50mm f1.8 prime. Tripod, ISO 800, 1/6 shutter, f2.8. The only light in the image is from a taper candle inserted into a disassembled MAG-Lite. To keep the flame from melting the reflective lens of the flashlight, the setup was aimed up and the final image rotated.”
-Christian Shaffer
“The shot was taken with my Canon S90 @ F8, ISO 400 and with a 15sec exposure on a tripod. To achieve the blur, I adjusted the head of the tripod downward and back to it’s starting position quickly at the start of the exposure.”
-Jesse Oliveri
Camera: Mamiya RZ67
Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 110mm
Film: Kodak 160VC
Shot at: f2.8 at 1 sec
Reflective metered with a Sekonik L-508
Scanned at a low resolution
-Gabriel Padilla
Canon 5dMark II
Sigma 70-200mm EX
ISO 100
F 2.8
Shutter speed 2.5
“I hung the statue upside down to make it appear that the light was coming from up above. Using long term exposure I quickly moved the candle to light the side of his face.”
[Ed note: This image subverted my expectations completely, re-imagining soft candle light as a crisp backlight. Also, I have a soft spot for The Incredibles, silhouettes and the color red.]
-Felix Mendoza
Note: there are two galleries this week for the sake of our back end:
If participants proved one thing this week, it’s that a single candle is more than apt for photography by modern dSLRS. Well, that, and they’re all gluttons for punishment. Nice job, everyone.
Now cheer* on your favorites in the comments!
(*Just be sure to do so without, you know, being a dick to other participants. Also, for anyone wondering why the lead shot didn’t win, it was taken last summer making it ineligible for competition.)
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