15 Faked Miniature Photographs

Tilt-shift photography wasn’t invented to transform real world scenes into small scale models, but who’s complaining? Here are 15 faked miniatures, by you .

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Shooting Challenge: Tilt-shift

Shooting Challenge: Tilt-shift

Tilt-shift photography originated with large, billowing lenses to capture the proportions of architecture. Today, its often used to blur parts of a frame and make the world appear in miniature. However you use it, for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’ll photograph in tilt-shift.

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37 Handsome HDR Photographs

What happens when you squish together the best of underexposed and overexposed photography? You get HDR —high dynamic range images. Here are 37 examples of what HDR can do.

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Shooting Challenge: HDR Photography

Shooting Challenge: HDR Photography

HDR. It used to be a photographic technique reserved for those fluent in Photoshop. Now, it’s a go-to filter in every point-and-shoot and app. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, we’ll celebrate this democratization of the art form and all shoot in high dynamic range.

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41 Beautiful Black & White Photos

Who needs color when good old black and photography is so simply beautiful? Here are the results from this week’s Shooting Challenge .

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Shooting Challenge: Black & White

Shooting Challenge: Black & White

The world’s first photograph was murky wash of grays. So as you take black and white photos for this week’s Shooting Challenge, don’t consider yourself an artsy poseur. Call yourself a historian.

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29 Epic Panoramas From Around The World

Humans can see an impressive 120-degree arc, but we’re not capable of focusing on all of that vision at once. Panoramic photographs stretch that sight to 180 or 360 degrees, and even better, 100% of that image is in attention-grabbing focus. Here are the 29 panoramas from this week’s Shooting Challenge.

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Shooting Challenge: Panoramas

Shooting Challenge: Panoramas

It’s hard to take an enchanting photo. But it’s even harder to take an enchanting photo that’s 3x or more the normal length. So for this week’s Shooting Challenge, we’re going wide. We’re going panoramic.

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10 Fierce Fisheye Photos

Fisheye lenses distort a scene to absurd proportions—which is why fisheye photography is so fun to see. Here are your fisheye photos from this week’s Shooting Challenge.

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Shooting Challenge: Fisheye

Shooting Challenge: Fisheye

Fish are lucky. Because they get to see 180 degrees or so at once. Photographers can do the same using fisheye lenses (or cheating it with a filter). So for this week’s Shooting Challenge, we’re all going fishing.

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