Shooting Challenge: Summer Solstice

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Shooting Challenge: Summer Solstice

This Saturday, June 21, is the longest day of the year and the alpha of summer. In celebration, we're all traveling pagan, to appearance acknowledgment to that which gives us all life. Let's adoration the sun—in photographs!

The Challenge

On June 21, yield a photo of the sun. Morning, noon, sunset, no matter.

The Technique

Now, we all apperceive that you can aim at the sky to get an overexposed orb or a bit of lens flare. And while there's annihilation amiss with that, you can in fact yield added abundant photos application telescopes and filters. A simple section of mylar can cut through UV and IR ablaze to accommodate absurd shots.


Shooting Challenge: Summer Solstice
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Of advance you can consistently go with a sunrise or sunset instead.


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Just accomplish abiding to do the sun justice. It's appealing abundant the sun's altogether this weekend. And we are all fabricated of brilliant stuff, afterwards all.

The Example

Our advance angel is from flickr's fdecomite. It appears the columnist may acquire desaturated the skyline in column assembly (but maybe this is a clarify or lighting ambush I'm missing?). Either way, a bit of afflatus for you this Saturday.


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The Rules

1. Submissions charge to be your own.2. Photos have to be taken back this challenge was arise (read added on that above).3. Explain, briefly, the equipment, settings, address and adventure abaft shot.
4. Email submissions to contests@gizmodo.com, not me.
5. Include 970px advanced angel (
200KB or less) AND a natively sized image in email. I apperceive that your photo may not abatement into those exact top rez dimensions, so whatever built-in resolution you're application is fine.6. One acquiescence per person.
7. Use the able SUBJECT band in your email (more advice on that below)
8. You accede to the Standard Challenge Rules - though we DO acquire non-US citizen submissions
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9. If the angel contains any actual or elements that are not endemic by you and/or which are accountable to the rights of third parties, and/or if any bodies arise in the image, you are amenable for obtaining, above-mentioned to acquiescence of the photograph, any and all releases and consents all-important to admittance the exhibition and use of the angel in the address set alternating in these rules after added compensation. If any being actualization in any angel is beneath the age of majority in their state/province/territory of abode the signature of a ancestor or acknowledged guardian is appropriate on anniversary release.

Send your best photo by Monday, June 23rd at 9AM Eastern to contests@gizmodo.com with "Solstice" in the accountable line. Save your files as JPGs, and use a FirstnameLastnameSolstice.jpg (970px wide) and FirstnameLastnameSolsticeWallpaper.jpg (2560px wide) allotment conventions.

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