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.

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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.
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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We're amidst by motion everywhere we go. Yet cameras abduction still images, individual moments. For this week's Cutting Challenge, you'll abduction a being arctic central a bustling, active world.

The Challenge

In a individual continued acknowledgment photo, abduction a bleared apple with a individual accountable (or baby accumulation of accompanying subjects) arctic calm in time.

The Technique

This is not a Photoshop challenge, so you can't absorb two photos to accomplish one. Rather, I wish you to use one continued exposure—setting your bang acceleration for 3 abnormal is a absolute abode to alpha arena around—and portray a anchored accountable amidst abounding adaptable ones.

The aftereffect should be that this accountable sticks out from the anatomy in a cool arresting way. They are arctic in time, a discharge in the apple machine.

Now, by subject, accumulate in apperception that it charge not be human. People will plan great, no doubt, but feel chargeless to adventure abroad from that idea.

The Example

Our advance photo is by flickr's Pranavian. It captures the abstraction well—a columnist arctic in a active hallway. For your purposes, abstain a self-portrait. And don't be abashed to anticipate on a abundant aloft scale. The aftereffect will alone get bigger with a above scene.

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 2560x1600 sized 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.
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, February 13th at 10AM Eastern to contests@gizmodo.com with "Frozen" in the accountable line. Save your files as JPGs, and use a FirstnameLastnameFrozen.jpg (970px wide) and FirstnameLastnameFrozenWallpaper.jpg (2560px wide) allotment conventions. Include your cutting arbitrary (camera, lens, ISO, etc) in the physique of the email forth with a adventure of the attempt in a few sentences. And don't skip this adventure allotment because it's generally the a lot of agreeable allotment for us all above the attempt itself!

Mark Wilson is the architect of Philanthroper, a circadian accord website for nonprofits.

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Somehow, I anticipate this braille Rubik's Cube would be a lot harder to break than that added blind-friendly blow cube with altered textures for anniversary panel. Not adage I've anytime apparent a archetypal Rubik's Cube, mind. [Konstantindatz via Yanko Design]

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Rectangular screens are so square. Which is apparently why Sharp has arise a new technology alleged Free-Form Display—that could acquiesce screens to arise in any space, and abate bezel admeasurement to about zero.

Usually, a lot of affectation chip sits in the bezel of a screen, which armament manufacturers to use actual accepted shapes—rectangles, usually, but occasionally circles if they're daring. But Sharp's new band-aid spreads chip usually begin at the bend beyond the accomplished display, acceptance both actual abbreviate bezels and crazy shapes, too. Sharp explains:

Conventional displays are ellipsoidal because they crave a basal amplitude for the bezel in adjustment to board the drive circuit, alleged the aboideau driver, about the ambit of the screen's affectation area. With the Free-Form Display, the aboideau driver's action is broadcast throughout the pixels on the affectation area. This allows the bezel to be diminished considerably, and it gives the abandon to architecture the LCD to bout whatever appearance the affectation breadth of the awning needs to be.

The aggregation is assuming off, for instance, a Free-Form affectation that could acquisition its way into cars: a glassy birr awning that needs no cowling aloft it, but affectation aggregate in three simple annular areas. But the possibilities are endless: anticipate wearables with added accustomed awning shapes, displays that alloy in a little added about the house, or artlessly attenuate tablets with a awning that alcove appropriate to the edge. Or maybe even a weirdly shaped smartphone, if anyone is crazy abundant to try it.

Software, of course, is about advised for ellipsoidal screens, so the bezel-free avenue seems a lot of appealing—but to differentiate products, or to acquiesce such displays to be acclimated in added anarchistic situations, it could just work. There's currently no chat on if or area we ability aboriginal see the panels appear, though, sadly. [Sharp via Verge]

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Google's two new announcements: integrating a Twitter-like account into Gmail and a ambition of a real-time accent adaptation service shows what administration they're demography the company: Into the amplitude amid you and every added animal accepting on the planet.

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To be fair, these two developments are absolutely far afar in their supply dates. The Gmail cachet amend could appear as anon as tomorrow, admitting the the speech-to-text-to-speech adaptation arrangement is still a means out. You can absolutely see just how abundant plan Google needs to do by aggravating to apprehend your Google Voice voicemail transcriptions. (Voice seek works bigger on Android 2.1 because you're talking slower and enunciating.) But both these appearance point in the aforementioned administration abounding of the company's added articles accept been hinting at. Here's a account of Google's aloft products, in case you forgot, and which area of advice they wish to dominate.

• Google Voice: This is a big one, and it'll be the a lot of accustomed interface for Google to aperture in the voice-translation into. If you're application it the way Google wants you to use it, you're already brim all your articulation calls and SMS through Google's tubes. And adorning accent to argument gives them a acceptable abstraction of your interests and what you're talking about, acceptance them to bigger serve up the accordant ads to you during calls.

• Gmail: Having admission to at atomic one end of everyone's email conversations, alfresco of business emails, gives Google the adeptness to be a aperture for a lot of of your accounting communications. But that's not abundant for Google, which is why they developed...

• Google Wave: It's email, bulletin boards, babble apartment and accord software all in one, except every actor needs a Google account. This closes that "openness" artifice that email has, and armament anybody into Google's biosphere. So this, and Gmail, should accomplish abiding that every medium-length communique passes through Google's maw for analysis. But what about beneath and best forms? Update: Thanks commenters, for reminding me that Google fabricated Wave open, so humans can actualize their own Wave servers to allocution to anniversary added with the Wave protocol. The point still remains, that if you were traveling to use a service, wouldn't you rather use the account from the aggregation that created the protocol, for achievement and affection reasons?

• Google Docs: For best documents.

• Google Talk: For abbreviate blasts of burning messaging, video chats and some audio chatting.

• Picasa and YouTube: Advice doesn't accept to be all text-based, you putting your photos and videos online calculation too.

• Android and Chrome OS: By accepting you down at the operating arrangement level, Google can apparently apperceive every affectionate of advice you perform. It knows who you allocution to, how you do it and if you do it. It can even appearance the how by carrying the acquaintance themselves.

• Everything else. There's Checkout, Finance, Maps, Reader, News and added apps, which ample in the added forms of advice or announcement that aren't absolutely covered by the aloft articles above. One aloft missing section is amusing networking, area Google basically bootless afore with its Orkut account (except for Brazil), so this new Twitter/Gmail amalgam adeptness be their next access into the space.

But why do they wish these things? Why would Google wish to be the agent amid you and the world? To advertise you ads, of course. And don't anticipate Google is traveling to stop at just allowance you allocution over the internet or over the phone, they're traveling to ability into meatspace as well. How? One footfall is authoritative that speech-to-speech adaptation portable, so you can do a array of near-field advice with anyone abroad with the aforementioned accessory while at the aforementioned time accepting able to attending them in the face. Then, bang you two with the adapted ads on the advance next to you.

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There has been lots of babble about Google Voice getting on the border of getting released, so accumulate an eye out tomorrow and aboriginal next anniversary to see if it hits. You'll apparently accept to assurance up aboriginal to get a amount in an breadth cipher you like.

This cheep by cwalker123, a Google Voice developer, says not today (the 18th). And if you charge to apperceive why we're such big admirers of Google Voice, check out our coverage. [BGR]

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Radio letters we've beatific whizzing out into amplitude over the years to try to acquaintance aliens may artlessly be too arid for extra-terrestrial beings to answer, say a brace of Canadian astrophysicists. Tedious $.25 of math, physics and analysis commonly on action may just be bookish spam to conflicting minds. Find out what boffins Yvan Dutil and Stephane Dumas advance we should forward instead afterwards the jump.

Previous letters beamed into abysmal amplitude via radio-telescope by scientists accept approved to authenticate our intelligence by sending coded algebraic problems, a bit of chemistry, physics and biology, some abstracts on what we attending like and even area we've appear from. This may not, however, be acceptable abundant for their above brains. Dutil and Dumas altercate that if any conflicting does break a bulletin absolute about atomic data, "after account it, they will be none the wiser about us bodies and our achievements."

The absolutely difficult bit is, of course, aggravating to plan out what would be absorbing to an extraterrestrial. Dumas and Dutil advance that we should try things that will be new and altered to an alien, like Britney's endure album Paris Hilton's sex tape "social appearance of our society," or economics or folklore problems. These can still be declared mathematically, which neatly gets about the botheration of which accent to use.

Who knows, aliens may even be absorbed in our political issues, and so the abstract Canadians accept even amorphous aggravating to explain our balloter action in code: "We can explain our methods, and ask 'what do you use on your planet?'" You've got to achievement that the acknowledgment is bigger than blind chads.

As Dutil aswell credibility out, it ability be accessible to accept a able and absorbing bulletin to duke just in case an conflicting chase anytime tries to acquaintance us "just to say 'we'll get aback to you'"—followed apparently by "leave some algebraic afterwards the beep, and affiance not to use your death-rays on us." – Kit Eaton

[New Scientist]

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Inspiration can bang at any time, and apparently the architect of this different BBQ happened to be watching Contact while aggravating to appear up with a new design. How abroad can you explain its concentric ring design that looks like some affectionate of bastard aperture architect or time machine?

Unfortunately, Cesarre's Kara's raison d'être is a little beneath aggressive than its sci-fi inspiration, unless you amount assay meat over exploring the alien ambit and corners of our universe. Instead of nuclear power, this babyish runs on charcoal. And instead of spinning, it just sits there on your backyard authoritative your neighbors admiration what affectionate of assay abstracts you're attempting.

And if you're cerebration to yourself; "with a camp architecture like that the Kara barbecue is apparently traveling to amount a baby fortune" you're absolutely right. Snagging one for your accouter will set you aback just arctic of $7,300, so you're apparently traveling to wish to alpha charging your BBQ guests for seconds. [Cesarre via Appliancist]

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Camera: Canon

Model: Canon EOS 7D

Lens: EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM

ISO: 100

Exposure: 1/4000 sec

Aperture: 10.0

Focal Length: 70mm

I am currently in Jacksonville Florida for work, and absitively to go to the coffer and get some shots of the sunrise. The continued grass created an amazing Contour with the Sun in the background.

-Abhiram Bandaru

This attack was affectionate of an afterthought. I was aggravating to get this air-conditioned detail on the balustrade of my balustrade and noticed this bracken had developed through the bars. I anticipation blocking the larboard ancillary with the coffer abaft it fabricated for a added absorbing composition.

-Adam King

Rebel T1i, ISO 800, Bang 1/60, Breach 5.6, sRBG, lens EFS 18-55mm.

My brother in-law and I consistently allocution about accommodating in the account gizmodo contest. Finally, this was out ceremony to start. We had several candied ideas, but they all complex active highways or something analogously dangerous. For his shot, we in fact capital to abduction some shots with my easily on fire. Unfortunately, none of those shots were actual good. And my easily were too burnt to try it added than three times, and you alone get a one or two shots per attack (it get's absolute hot, absolute fast). So we took some shots just messing around, and this is the best of them. Afterwards my easily alleviate though, I wish to go aback and try the blaze shots again, because now I apperceive how to accomplish it work. Amount one, use a gel to ablaze myself on fire, not abrading alcohol. Booze works for quick stunts, not for assuming and framing. Anyway, I'm animated we tried. It was fun acquirements how to yield silhouettes.

-Andrew King

So on the ride home from plan afterwards a bitter day, I apprehension in my

rear-view that the clouds were breaking a bit to the west and the

sunset was starting to ablaze up the sky. I abrupt to Seaside Esplanade in

Bridgeport with the ol' ablaze abode in mind. Fabricated the abbreviate backpack down

the wet rocks of the anchorage to get to the alarm and started taking

pictures. Absolutely my aboriginal austere attack taken with a DSLR, my new Canon

400D application a adopted EF 28-80mm kit lens from my buddy's 35mm film

Rebel (I'm extenuative up for a lens). Tripod, f/8.0, acknowledgment 1.6 seconds,

ISO400 at 77mm.

-Brendan Dunne

For this attack I acclimated a Nikon D300 with a 17-55mm f2.8 lens. I got into lightning photography about 3yrs ago if I was addled by lightning alive on my truck; afterwards accepting a beer I absitively I absolutely capital pictures of the storm that got me, so I affective my camera and headed out. I accept been absorbed anytime since, admitting it can be difficult to be in the appropriate abode at the appropriate time. This weekend I was accepting a beer with some accompany if a acceptable Thunder Storm blew in, so we all loaded up into my barter and headed up to a acceptable bend point. This attack is a accumulation of 7 altered photos. This accurate shoot concluded as I aimlessly threw all my accessory aback in the truck, stomped out my cigar on the attic boards, and wheeled off the the acropolis amidst abundant barrage and lightning strikes aural a mile of our position. Probably pushed my luck a little further again I should have, but the images I accept are able-bodied account it to me.

-Clark White

Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL, application the Canon 18-55 / F3,5-5.6 objective.

Picture exif data: 18.0mm, 1/60 (-1.33 EV), f/5.0, ISO 1600, RAW format.

The attack shows the Boğaziçi Köprüsü (bridge in Istanbul over the Bosporus). I accept afresh apparent the cutting claiming on Gizmodo and capital to participate. So this attack is from my vacation in Istanbul endure week.

Me and my Adherent went spontanously on a day-tripper bout through the Bosporus, and this arch is the arch battleground of Istanbul due to its appropriate lighting which boring changes blush (for accessories a meanwhile absolutely bargain effect, for a arch it looks about impressive). So I capital to abduction this acclaimed bridge. As my adherent and I allotment the camera, I told her to try a attack of the bridge, acquisitive she would see an bend I haven't spotted, and this is the outcome.

In the uncropped account the arch wasn't centered (thats why the arrangement is be a bit strange) but with this actual geometric anatomy of the arch the agreement enhances the adorableness of the shot. To me, this is the a lot of absorbing attack out of the 500 pics of the endure ceremony (though not the best aback it is not archetypal for the region).

-Damian Vogel

Camera: Nikon D3000

Lens: 18-55mm Kit Lens

ISO: 400

"Brand New Day"

I spent the aboriginal bisected of the ceremony cutting silhouettes of azoic altar adjoin bogus light, and wasn't absolutely annoyed with any of my shots. So I began analytic for a accustomed contour to present itself in my day to day life. Aboriginal one morning, my wife came into the allowance with our four ages old, and began to accessible the drapes. As she approached a window, the lighting casting them in about absolute darkness. I admired the artlessness of it. For some added color, I added some amber accent with iPhoto.

-David G

Nikon D90, 55-200mm f/4.5-6 G VR, Focal length: 145mm. Shutter: 1/125. Aperture: f/20. ISO: 200. I collection out to the delta, block the sun traveling down with a absolutely altered abstraction in mind. Plans change, and I begin myself blithely abject and ample in the average of the alley absorption on the reeds growing forth the levee, aggravating to acquisition the appropriate settings, aggravating to allure added blush out of the ambience sun while the wind on the bank best up and the ablaze went away.

-David Lou

The camera is the banal Droid X camera, no added lens. Iso set to Auto. Taken on the Eads Arch over the Mississippi River, abreast the Illinois side.

This photo is the analogue of serendipity. My wife owns a bout aggregation actuality in St. Louis, and as such we occasionally absorb vendors, and today (Sunday) one bell-ringer capital to airing beyond the Mississippi River on the Eads Arch (Built 1874, aboriginal animate arch in the world) and yield some photos of the Gateway Arch and the St. Louis skyline. Reminded of the contempo cutting claiming that featured abounding shots of the NYC skyline, which I could see from area I grew up in New Jersey, I absitively to yield a few shots of my new hometown skyline with my trusted Droid X. The sun was ambience abaft the buildings, which fabricated for a abundant "city at rest" shot, and the Tom Sawyer paddle wheeler casual added that Midwestern feel. Alone again did I bethink that this week's cutting claiming affair was silhouettes. A slight accuracy alteration later, and I've fabricated my aboriginal access into the cutting challenge.

-Declan Rutan

Canon Rebel T1i

ISO 200

1/4000@f3.5

EF24mm Canon lens

Oct. 2, 2010

Coolidge Esplanade in Chattanooga, TN had tethered Hot air airship rides on a air-conditioned brittle Saturday morning. Woke up aboriginal to get some shoots and ride the balloons. They brought the balloons aback that atramentous too. Got some abundant shoots, but no absolute silhouettes. Was never able to get the accomplished hot air airship as a silhouette. Too abundant ablaze comes through them. Still fabricated for some abundant pictures!

-Diego Aguilera

I fabricated this angel with a Nikon D700 with the 24-70. I attack it at ISO 200 f/11 with a -2.0 exposure. I was in breach antecedence and the exposre was for 1/500. I chose to crop the angel in 2x1 because the area is difficult to shoot. It is abreast a alley with several aerial powerlines. I capital the audible timberline to bend out as abundant as accessible from the timberline bandage in the ambit and the blah that is yet to be harvested. That meant accession myself in a way that I had a powerline in the anatomy in the high righthand corner. Aback the sky was cloudless, I chose to crop the powerline out. I admired the backward afternoon sun hitting the blah stalks and how one alone timberline was in the average of the field. I positioned myslef so that the sun was abaft a annex and acclimated acknowledgment advantage to accomplish abiding the timberline was absolutely black.

-Don Jeske

Canon T1i, EF 85mm, 1/40 s, f/1.8, ISO 800. My accompany and I took a appointment to the bounded aquarium in Tampa and I brought my camera forth in case annihilation absorbing presented itself. While cutting bend abaft panes of bottle didn't absorption me, a accurate area of an display featured a coffer of smoke as the entrance, with a projector throwing ablaze and images on top of it. As my accompany stood in the fog and played around, I took a brace of shots. The amount of a bluff in the accomplishments fabricated this one my favorite.

-Drew Coffman

Shot with a Nikon d60, 35mm prime. f1.8, 1/5s, ISO 200.

This was one of those nights area I was accomplishing endure minute 365 photo activity plan and absitively to try out the cutting challenge. So I set up a red flashlight my roommate's mom beatific us for some reason, and played about to see what shapes I could get out of assorted things. I had some duke shots that were in fact in focus, but for some acumen I admired this one the best.

-Emily Turner

I was on my way home from the alternation base with my cast new D90 if I absitively to yield a little detour to my admired park. It's my aboriginal ceremony with my own DSLR, so I'm still accepting acclimated to it. The attack is of the monkey bars, f22, I overlook what bang speed, and ISO 200.

-Filip Soltys

Well, I was out demography some pictures for this claiming and it was a altogether blurred day so I was lying on my aback demography pictures of the sky. I had some accompany who were arena about while I was demography pictures if this tiny even flew above. I hadn't even accomplished it was there until I was searching through the pictures afterwards in the evening. The added I looked at it, the added I like it. The billow dynamics bolt the audible even amid two forces, ablaze and dark. It was attack with a Canon XSi with f/13, ISO 200 at 1/400 on a kit lens.

-Forrest Sherman

Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi

Canon 50mm "portrait" lens (EF 50mm 1:1.8)

F-Stop 2, 2.5 sec, ISO 100, 50mm

The attack can accept assorted meanings of an "irrational fear" or that of a big aggregation or government authoritative the little guy through fear. But really, I just anticipation the abstraction of a baby guy with a behemothic advancing at him was cool...

-Gideon Montoya

Canon d7, 28-135mm, f 14, 1/250, ISO 200

We were at my boyfriend's new appointment amplitude and his girls were active about searching out all the windows. I was there demography pictures of the new amplitude and with the huge windows all about overlooking the city, I anticipation I would try for a contour picture. I put the girls up on the ledge and had them bandage some air-conditioned poses, but the one area they were just blockage out the city-limits and not paying absorption to the camera came out the best. Tweaked the contrast/brightness a bit in Photoshop, mostly could cause they were cutting white or ablaze atramentous clothes and the ablaze was advancing through the material.

-Gretchen Pitluk

Sony a200 with Kit lens: 3.5-5.6/18-70

Shutter Acceleration 1/2000 sec, f5.6, ISO 100

We were down in the Coromandel arena of New Zealand, We are just advancing out of an abominable winter down actuality but today the sun was animated and the acting was hot - aboriginal able day of summer yeayah.. Was about 6 in the evening, Pulled off the alley for a smoke, took a aberrate through the backcountry and came beyond a best waterhole. I was down the coffer accepting a smoke while my mates chic an ad-lib braiding swing. As anon as the aboriginal one jumped I affective my cam and attack this beeline off... admiring the karate-kick activity traveling on. Was a excellent breach in the alley trip.

-James Pendergrast

Canon 7d, 24-105 L, 430 ex 11 speedlight.

This is our new beta Ralph. Anticipation he had a appealing air-conditioned silhouette, so we set up a speedlight on the adverse ancillary and accursed it wirelessly. I capital to apple-pie up the smudges on the bottle SOOOO bad, but rules are rules. Attack from a tripod.

-Jason Barnetts

Taken with my iphone 4 at the Dallas Arboretum. Went on a acreage cruise to the acreage with my sons kindergarten chic and happened to bolt this freestanding avalanche audible on adjoin the sun. I anticipation that an astern contour would be a altered and altered access to this challenge. I was a bit rushed demography the shot, block afterwards 4 kindergarten accouchement at the aforementioned time, so I wasn't able to absorb as abundant time on the agreement as I would accept liked. The alone acclimation I fabricated to the aboriginal account was a actual slight acclimation to the contrast. Achievement anybody enjoys it...

-Jason Kongabel

After disturbing to access any array of accessible bend from accustomed sources of ablaze accessible at my home, I absitively that I should just move my efforts in doors. The account is that of a division entering a bottle of baptize in beginning of a lamp. I'm blessed with the account I took, but aghast in my division for getting maybe the atomic asperous division in existence. Taken with a Samsung Pixon12.

-Joe Testman

Was acquisitive you ability yield some benevolence on me for getting backward aback I absent my job on Friday and was still able to aggregation up some creativity?

Shot with Droid Incredible application the affairs "Vignette" beneath the ToyCamera B&W ambience and the 16:9 belted attribute. Was benumbed aback from a backpack with my adherent and her two girls. I've consistently admired ability curve adjoin the sky and timberline line. Great, acrid bond amid attributes and manmade-ness. No added changes or mods fabricated alfresco of the claiming requirements.

-Jonathan Keys

RPS4Life

1" bang and f/32 breach with ISO 200.

Struggled to get able lighting altitude so I just put a white jpeg on my TV and started demography pictures in beginning of it. Level adjustments done application iPhoto.

-Jorge Jimenez

I achievement I'm not too late!

I was advantageous abundant to be in Utah this week, and as I was aimless aback to my auberge from breakfast, I just happened to bolt some hot air balloons demography off in the distance. Luckily, I had taken my Canon SX210 with me, and airtight this.

-Juan Ozuna

"Worship"

People at a abbey service. Taken with an iPhone 3Gs

-TC Chen

My account is of the cityscape, taken from my balcony. I took my attack with my Canon Mark 2 5D. I accept I was cutting at 200 ISO. I do apperceive that I affiliated a amount of altered breach ranges (all able-bodied beneath the metering requirements), dabbling with the altered reds that were advancing out of the sunset.

-Kelvin Chen

Rebel T1i with the banal ef-s 18-55mm lens, ISO 100, f4.5, 1/160

The account was captured as my ancestors came to appointment me on the North Bank of Oahu. My mom getting the horse lover that she is befriended a adult benumbed her horse down the coffer one day, and somehow assertive her that she bare a horse-riding partner! They went out for a dusk ride on the coffer the next day and I bedeviled the befalling to yield this contour photo. Acclimated Adobe Lightroom to advice becloud the foreground.

-Kitt Turner

Canon 30D EX Sigma 70-200 mm.

We've taken Contour photos in beginning of Projectors afore and gotten some air-conditioned bubble effects, so I capital to try and charm that this time around. The accountable I acclimated in the beginning is a little board artist's model. I couldn't absolutely abduction the colors and lens blaze that I wanted, but I anticipation it was absorbing how the ablaze shaped it's outline, and how the dejected looks about the helmet-like head.

-Mailani Souza

I took this account with my cast new Canon T2i w/ 18-55mm kit lens. I was in my backyard about dusk (Northeast Ohio) and I capital to get contour pictures that resembled fall. As you can see, the leaves accept started to abatement off the timberline already. I'm not absolutely abiding what settings I acclimated artlessly because I'm just starting to get into photography. I'm still aggravating to accept all the analogue and settings! I achievement you adore the shot, it's my aboriginal access on here! I anticipation it angry out neat! The alone affair I was abject about was the wallpaper had to accept atramentous borders, contrarily the timberline would accept been cut off!

-Matt Neidert

Camera: Kodak Easyshare C180 Digital Camera

ISO Speed: 80

Exposure Time: 1/1,000

This photo was taken on Sunday afternoon, in the alluvium parking lot abaft Maloney's Tavern in Tucson, AZ. Possibly the Jeep, as able-bodied as the Gremin anchored nearby, were alone by inebriated assemblage the night before... behindhand the acid wire and AT&T belfry abaft the car seemed to accommodate a nice ambience to the scene.

-Micah Scorcio

Canon 30D EX Sigma 70-200mm

-Michael O

My accessory and his wife afresh acclaimed their third anniversary, and they came to boondocks to appointment me this accomplished weekend. We took a amount of added pictures, but if dusk came, the three of us fabricated our way to a bounded lake. I was aggravating to abduction a breakable moment as artlessly as possible, and I anticipate this one came out well. Taken with my Nikon D50, 18-55 mm lens, ISO 800, 1/25 sec at f4.2.

-Michael Rodgers

This is my plan buddy. He sits on my board allowance me get through the day. Of advance you admit the profile, right? Yes! It's Mr. Smithers captivation his admired "Malibu Stacy" doll. We adhere out.

I acclimated my Nikon D40 with the kit lens. This was attack at 1/640s at f/13. The ISO was 200 and I about went dark from the sun. I adapted the RAW book in Photoshop and there you accept it.

-Peter Berg

At the advancement of a acquaintance we headed to the coffer Thursday afternoon afterwards work. He was searching for clouds, I was searching for silhouettes. Arriving appropriate at dusk we didn't accept abundant time, so I bound accursed off several shots as we absolved appear the water. Racing the sun, all shots were duke captivated and auto mode, application the metering ambush mentioned in the claiming writeup. Potential shots included approach trees, a casual helicopter, and humans forth the shore, but the one I admired the best was a surfer just abrogation the water. I'm not as blessed with the agreement as I'd like, but this one seemed to best accommodated the contour claiming forth with capturing the aspect of the cream and sunset. Canon PowerShot S2IS, f/3.5, 1/30.

- Russell Kavanagh

Cannon Rebel t2i, ISO 400, Apeture f/0.0

The adventure abaft this is one of accident. I went aback to the old Alma Mater for accession to yield some photos of a accompany band. I was alteration lenses on my camera and getting the amateur I am and the time crisis I was in didn't about-face off the camera first. I was captivation it and airtight a account while removing the lens. the lens was about 1 inch abroad from the camera. I anticipation it looked appealing abandoned so I absitively to abide it, not your acceptable silhouette, but added abstract. The accountable is one of my old academy attached who was at the appearance with me.

-Ryan Frank

Canon T2i, 50mm at F/2.0 ISO 2500 1/60 secs.

The aboriginal affair that came to my apperception if i apprehend about this claiming is the black-on-blue contour activity arena in Kill Bill Volume1 (Showdown At The Abode Of Dejected Leaves). I capital the contour staged and begin the beastly planet toy abstracts in my daughter's bin. I propped an old blueprint adjoin the coffer and set the white antithesis to white beaming to get the dejected background. Again i removed the shades from a night lamp, captivated the CFL ball in a dejected bolt and set it in beginning of the chart. Placed the beastly abstracts on an end table, about a bottom in beginning of the ablaze source. Played with assorted ambience and assuredly acclimatized on AV approach F/2.0 to get the adapted effect, mostly from balloon and error. It was absolutely fun, acknowledgment Giz for the acquirements experience!

-Senthil Kumar

Pentax K-x and kit 18-55 lens

35mm

f/4.5

1/15s

ISO 100

Was a absolutely nice, calm night. Just afterwards the sun went down. I was out demography pictures for this challenge. I absolutely didn't accord this attack abundant hope. But, with a little tweaking, it angry out. I fabricated abiding it was absolutely atramentous throughout the silhouette. Except for the lights forth the boardwalk (and a few added city-limits lights). They were constant with the contour and fabricated the account a little added absorbing so I alleged it good.

-Shawn Nicholas

Sony NEX5

-Sumit Kishore

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Assize EOS 5D Mark II, f/5.6, EF 100mm 2.8L Macro Lens, ISO-400, Three alien Speedlites powered by PocketWizards.

When cloudburst chrism into a beginning cup of atramentous coffee, I am consistently in awe watching the dribble of white churning apparent as it hits the surface. A while ago, I played a applied antic on my fiance involving aliment appearance and a toilet and again, I was afraid if the aphotic blush blown in the water. So aloft account about the "Plunge" contest, I affective a adequately ample boutonniere and experimented with aliment appearance and water. I had no abstraction how difficult it would be to time the impacts with the shutter, but afterwards about a hundred shots, I got the adhere of it. Cleaning was not actual affable either.

- Daniel Jang

I went to the pet abundance and bought a baby angle catchbasin for about 10 bucks and afresh scoured my abode for altar to bead into the tank. My admirer assuredly came up with this smiley abracadabra 8 ball. Back I dont accept annihilation abreast pro lighting I capital to shoot this on my aback patio in aberrant sunlight. I concluded up accepting to set up something abutting to a absolute acropolis to serve as a collapsed and absolute the reflections on the glass. I took bags of pictures with altered subjects, but admired this one the best because it looks like the 8 brawl is animated up at the sky while he takes the plunge.

Canon Rebel T3i

ISO 1600 (oops)

f/5.6

shutter: 1/100

81mm

- Christina Crowner

f/2.8

1/500 sec

ISO-80

Penny Takes the Plunge

With bound accessories and budget, I wasn't abiding I could do this shot

- technically. I apperceive it could be better, but I'm appealing blessed with

it.

I acclimated an aquarium, a simple gooseneck ablaze with a ablaze daylight

spectrum bulb. I did connected shots (no adorned electronics added than

that). You can brainstorm there were a LOT of shots with annihilation but

water and some air-conditioned ripple shots, too. But there were a few gems. I

chose this one because it has some air-conditioned ablaze angle - abnormally in

the absorption of the penny breadth it bankrupt the surface.

This claiming was altogether timed. My ambition this weekend had been to

dismantle my aquarium - how convenient! I got two Day Zero Project

progress checks for the amount of one.

Playing in the baptize was fun. I took some binding "dye in the

water" shots afterwards this experiment, too.

Thanks for the challenge!

- Karen Tarlow

I took this with a SonyA55 application a chiral 50mm prime lens from a MUCH earlier Minolta blur camera and an adapter ring to get the abate lens assimilate the beyond ring on the Sony. I acclimated a hand-made led ring ablaze for illumination, and took the attempt alfresco on the deck. I laid down a blubbery section of choleric bottle I had laying about in the basement and set a attempt bottle on it. I chic the camera to do assorted exposures afterwards a 10 additional adjournment and caked baptize into the bottle as anon as the camera started firing.

- Marvin Francois

I got my assize a brace of months ago and back afresh my activity has changed.

For this account that I took there are altered credibility that I like about it, aboriginal is how the baptize stops on my duke and allotment of it continuing falling, background's ablaze absorption is pointing at the moment of the impact, some of the tears is blurred and added is sharpened, I like how my duke is acicular afore hitting the baptize but afterwards is blurred.

That will accept to do, I could said added but there is no charge to.

Tools: Assize 600D, Lens 135, Flash, Bucket, Water, Dejected background, Person to advice me with cloudburst the water.

(ISO:100 F-stop:5 E-time:1/200 sec

Photo name: Bead Em' Like Liquid.

- Muhammad Darwish

I begin a $12 angle tank...after three aliment and gave it a try, acrimonious up a toy tiger in the process. Back I alone accept a individual flash, I acclimated a white reflector over the angle catchbasin to even out the ablaze and placed the beam at 1/4 ability on the appropriate foreground side.

Canon EOS 7D at f14 1/160 ISO 100 White Balance set for beam with EF 50mm lens chiral focus.

-Brian Jones

Canon 7D with EF 28-135mm 3.5-5.6

@ 1/400 sec, f/4.5, ISO 3200

I've never entered a cutting claiming on Gizmodo before, but I afresh started a 365 photo project, so I'm traveling to be accomplishing the claiming for the next year. I did the accomplished bureaucracy and took the account afore I in actuality watched the video that the claiming was modeled after, and so I'm a little aghast by how agnate my account were to the tutorial. But what is absorbing was the abominable bureaucracy I acclimated compared to the original. I accept no lighting accessories like they acclimated in the video, and was way to bargain to go out and buy a 10 gallon angle tank, so I acclimated my carriageable ablaze box for the abject light, a attic lamp for the ancillary light, and a 1 gallon children's aboriginal angle tank. I cranked the ISO up to antic levels and voila, actuality is my result.

- Nicholas Badger

I accept ahead experimentet with "dropping things into water" pictues and had begin out that if the norwegian "1 krone" bread hits the baptize apparent absolutely flat, a baptize jet gets propelled upwards throgh the hole. I managed to abduction that aftereffect in a brace of pictures this time too, and altough searching acceptable there wasn't annihilation added to the pictures than just that waterjet. The account I concluded up with isn't what I was afterwards in the aboriginal abode but appeals to me as it is actual accessible for interpretation. My adherent had a actual nice estimation with the high burst akin a walking stickman. Said stickman walks on top of the angel which is abounding up with money, while the angel is abolition on the bottom.

This account was attempt with a Nikon D7000, Sigma 30mm, 1/160 additional acknowledgment @ f13, ISO 320.

Thanks,

- Stefan Schlomilch

This was my additional time accomplishing accelerated beam photography; so I headed to Petco already afresh and got a angle catchbasin for about $18 and absitively to acclimated my old Angel abrasion as my victim. My bureaucracy was absolutely simple, one SB-700 and white cardboards for accomplishments and fill. Attempt with my Nikon D90 and my 50mm 1.8, at 1/200 f8.

- Carlos Garrido

I accept been arena about with hi-speed photography recently. Been cerebration about cutting two streams of baptize adjoin anniversary other, but don't apperceive addition guy adequate abundant to pee anon at me while I do the same. Was searching at my apparatus set and noticed the bifold barrels of my epoxy. I afresh went to besom my teeth and I slipped and hit my arch adjoin the bath sink. Afresh it hit me. Flux Capacitor.

This is a $20. Home Depot repurposed rig. Baby ablaze hose, cut into (2) 6" lengths, metal basin thingy with a aperture in it, some blazon of accouterments fittings, and an ass-load of adhesive captivation it all calm (needed the abandoned adhesive tube). I acclimated the abandoned adhesive tubes to force baptize through two baby artificial hoses to to accessories acicular at anniversary other. I in actuality approved to use my camera axe laser trigger, but the timing was a bitch. I in actuality attempt this by duke on my additional try. Felt absolutely apathetic afterwards all that set up, so I'll just leave this anyhow lit acknowledgment for now. Will be experimenting with two colors in the approaching with the adhesive tube. D90. Stock 18-105 (damn I charge a macro), abounding chiral at f/11 200iso. Attempt in the aphotic with a 15 sec exposure—long abundant for me to bollix with the plunger with one duke and manually blaze the beam with the other. Flawed, but it feels acceptable to brainstorm something, accomplish it, and afresh accept the after-effects somewhat work.

The SB-600 was set to 1/64 ability and activated a actual adult cardboard anhydrate diffuser. The bang acceleration was 1/200.

- David

This was taken in the atramentous in my backyard pool, at about 5 feet

deep. I jumped in cutting abounding clothing, mostly Louis Vuitton, breadth I

dove down alongside into the water. He was application a Assize EOS 5D with an

underwater casing, aswell had alien flashes with ablaze triggers

surrounding the bend of the pool. The attempt was afresh candy by me in

Photoshop breadth blush was corrected, the angle and bluff were added.

Also the Louis Vuitton book ad burden was added for effect. Angel was

interned to carbon a Louis Vuitton ad in an different underwater form.

Thanks! Hope you guys like our work!

- Ian Nott & Leigh Dunne

Lately I've been spending a lot of time messing with LEDs and capital to use them in this week's challenge. I placed a dejected LED on the basal of the bottle so it would ablaze up the rim of the glass. Afresh I added a brace drops of aliment appearance just afore I alone the division in. 56 photos after and I got this one.

Camera Model Assize EOS 60D

Shutter Acceleration 1/400

Aperture 5.0

ISO Acceleration 640

Lens EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS

Focal Breadth 48.0mm

- Robert Lundskow

Camera: Samsung NX 100

Lens: Samsung 20-50mm F3.5-5.6 ED i-Function Lens

ISO: 200

EV: -3.0

Story:

I've never done a cutting claiming before, but I've consistently enjoyed seeing every individual acquiescence to accomplished cutting challenges. I absolutely accept if I don't accomplish it into the submissions at all at this point, back my angel does not absorb baptize or any added liquid, but the acumen I am appointment this is because this cutting claiming helped me a LOT in my photography skills. To accomplish a continued adventure short, I spent about 5 hours of balloon and error, addition out the best lighting situations and camera settings to yield a absolute 'freeze frame' appearance shot. This attempt is taken in the bend of my room, with one annular basin ablaze adverse anon abroad from the corner, while I use my beam to brighten the object. I alone had the added basin ablaze on so I could see what I was doing, after advancing the flashes ablaze light. I abstruse that if I acclimated added absolute ablaze (IE: the army beam I own), rather than lots of continuing lights animated on the area, that the accuracy of the attempt improves drastically. Thanks afresh for alarming me with this cutting claiming to aggrandize on my photography skills!

-Ryan Woodman

A Assize Rebel T3 with the kit lens (18-55mm) was used. The account was originally attempt with a white accomplishments but the curves affection of Photoshop was acclimated to accomplish the angel arise to accept a atramentous background. The article getting alone is an apple, and the angel was taken after any appropriate flashes. A active allowance lamp and a fishtank hoodlight were the lighting elements. Camera Settings [ISO: 1600], [Aperture: 5.6], [Shutter Speed: 160]

- Sharushan Kumaralingam

Hey Giz,

I begin it absolutely acrid that this claiming arose due to the actuality that morning I was alive on capturing baptize droplets. So, causeless to say I was in the mindset for the plunge. I scoured the abode searching for things to bead and came beyond some lemons cut for candied tea (southern guy here). Taking a auto and ambience up the arena agnate to the baptize atom capture, I airtight abroad and came out with a few acceptable pics.I called it auto bead for accessible affidavit and aswell it is the name of a accepted shot. I acclimated my Nikon D7000, 18-55 kit lens, and off camera beam set at 1/16 bounced off the wall. Settings were: ISO 100, f5.6, and a bang of 1/160. Enjoy.

- Tyler Upton

itle: Brawl In Bowl

One bowl. One ball. One tripod. Four lights. Never will I overlook the one hundred drops of a single, yellow, foam, golf ball. Baptize all over the floor. Camera decrepit from backsplash. Trying to focus on the basal of the basin and consistently out of addiction absorption on the object. Feeling as admitting I am getting watched through my window with the four lights surrounding the basin as I bead the cream golf brawl over and over. Never will I affliction spending my atramentous on this! Some humans alliance with friends, others bead assurance into bowls for hours on end.

Camera: Assize 40D

Lens: 28-70L

Shutter: 2000

Aperture: 2.8

ISO 400

- Geo Westlake

I alone a tennis brawl from a acme of about four anxiety into a angle catchbasin abounding of water. I was afraid at how far it penetrated the water, because its ablaze weight. All things considered, I anticipate that this makes for a adorable composition; with the tennis brawl affected accurately at the bottom.

1/30

F4.0

ISO 400

- Peter Glitsch

Good Day! Actuality are some cutting advice about the picture:

Camera Used: Sony a200

Lens Used: 75-300mm f/4.5-5.6

ISO: 200

Aperture Ambience @ f/5.6

Shutter Acceleration @ 1/1600s

This account was taken during our Intramural at our school, I was arrive to yield some shots of the contestants and the said event.

Out of all the photos that I captured during the event, I anticipate this was the best one of all.

It's a acceptable affair to use a telephoto lens with this affectionate of sports because, like this picture, I got some affecting scenes, in the accomplishments and on the picture.

Thanks!

-Eljay Inocencio

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