There are bad photographs—your selfies and poorly lit pictures of food—and then there are the things you’ve done
Taking an amazing photograph is hard. So let’s lower the bar a bit this week. I want you to take a bad photo—actually—I want you to take the absolute worst photo you can.
Nothing cuts through a grey winter evening like a cocktail worthy of Toucan Sam. Here are a baker’s dozen drinks, photographed and mixed by you.
Shooting Challenge: Cocktails
Posted in: Today's ChiliA lot of you participate in Gizmodo’s weekly Happy Hour, but most of you (intelligently!) aren’t taking photos of it. But for this week’s Shooting Challenge, let’s celebrate the beauty of booze. Photograph a cocktail (and get us the recipe!).
Shooting Challenge: POLAR VORTEX
Posted in: Today's ChiliWe’ve all heard. The Polar Vortex Part II: Vortex Returns is coming. And the best way to suffer through this frigid end of the world is to grab it by the snowballs and make some art.
Hanging ornaments is a silly tradition. We kill a tree, wrap it in lights, then fishhook it with glass balls. But every ornament is more than its glitter and paint. It’s a memory.
Last week, we asked you to take photos that simulated mundane headlessness. Only two of you were up for the challenge, but they’ve left our stomachs churning all the same.
This superb illusion doesn’t use Photoshop. So how did photographer Nils Bertrand pull it off?
Photoshop allows you to insert anything you’d like into an image. But for this week’s Shooting Challenge, we want you to do it analog style. Print a photo and hold it within a scene—then take a photo of that.