It also got pretty interesting when he started talking about the commenting system on Reddit.

The intersection of Highway 6 and Highway 90 in Sugar Land, Texas used to be a lush and watery swamp. This is what it looked like yesterday when photographer Barry Sigman found it. [Houston Press Blogs — Thanks, Matt!]

What does it do differently from the Facebook Web site? Well, for one thing, you'll be able to take advantage of the iPad's built-in cameras to shoot and upload photos directly on your device. You'll also get full resolution and full-screen photos and videos. The developers and designers have supposedly overhauled and tailored the app's design to the iPad's sensitive touchscreen interface, and it is now in its final testing stages.

Given that it's been more than a year after the iPad first went on sale, it's just about damn time Facebook got its own official iPad app. [NYTimes]

The Photofast i-FlashDrive will transfer your music, photo and movie files between iOS devices, even without a computer. It might look like a plain, two-sided USB and 30-pin dock connector at first glance, but it's more than that.

The dongle works like your usual flash drive—it connects to your iDevice or computer, letting you store your files directly on its internal memory (which comes in 8GB, 16GB or 32GB capacities). It doesn't have the ability to charge or sync, so it's not a cable replacement. The dongle comes with an iOS app for file management and works as an external drive on a Mac or PC.

You can snag one when it becomes available in July, prices range from $99 to $192. [PhotoFast via OhGizmo!]

At the Texas Heart Institute, doctors have developed an artificial heart replacement that produces no discernible pulse or audible heartbeat.

Put your ear against the chest of a patient with this implant, and all you'll hear is a faint humming sound. Touch their wrist, and there will be no pulse.

The machine is a continuous-flow pump that consists of simple whirling rotors, which spin a patient's blood throughout his body instead of pumping it. Since the device has just one moving part, it actually works better and lasts longer than other artificial hearts.

Doctors have successfully replaced multiple calves' hearts with these centrifugal pumps, and recently tried them in humans. Sadly, the man who received the new implant died due to complications from his disease—but he lived for more than a month without a heartbeat.

A final design, a manufacturer and FDA approval are still needed before the continuous-flow artificial heart can come to the market. But we can't help but wonder—how do you tell when a patient dies if you can't hear a heartbeat or feel a pulse? [NPR]

This was taken with the iPhone 4 native camera. I was in Chicago with my brother, looked up inside the Millennium Park Bean and shot. I've found three occurrences of my brother and me in the pic, but I'm guessing the total occurrence is INFINITE.

- Laura Andersen

I used Hipstamatic with an iPhone4. John S lens/KodotXGrizzled film with no flash.

Thought of using the 2 mirror technique, like everyone else, but then I remembered logging into my own computer by accident a while ago using GoToMyPc (This time I used LogMeIn. Same effect). I couldn't get out of it and eventually my computer froze. It looked pretty neat and I tried to capture that again. It was me logging into my computer, logging into my computer, logging into my computer...ad nauseum.

- David E. Lee

My interest was piqued by this contest, but the only camera I had on hand was the crappy one in my iPhone 3G. In fact, the crappiness inspired me to try something out. How bad would an iPhone picture of an iPhone picture look? Or a picture of a picture of a picture? Or infinite pictures?! I snapped a shot of my computer monitor with the contest's lead shot pulled up. I emailed myself this picture, pulled it up on my monitor and repeated. Things got visually interesting pretty quickly. I reached this result after only a dozen iterations. It may not be infinite, but I think it's neat looking.

- Earl Nicholson

I went to the tracks down the street and sat there for a minute to see the best angle i could use. What i came up with is just simple. Sony A230, 18-55mm lense, f/5.6, 1/160 , ISO 100, Daylight WB Apperture setting. Changed a bit the saturation on Gimp 2.6 and here it is.

- Felix Garcia

As soon as I heard "Infinite loop", the obvious idea was to somehow showcase a programmatic infinite loop. So I wrote up a phony C++ program with a conditional infinite loop. Wrote another one to simulate the output (I was lazy to make the main program work ;) ). Setup terminal app to be translucent, to show the output in the background, and shot the photo when the beach ball started showing up, to illustrate an infinite loop. Also changed my wallpaper to a space-themed one to show infinite-ness.

P.S. Check out the condition for the infinite loop in the code ;)

Shooting Info:
Cam: Nikon D90
Lens: Kit 18-105mm
Focal length, Shutter speed, Aperture: 52mm, 1/1.6s, F5 [for shallow DOF]
Manual focus, shot with a IR remote from a tripod

- Manu K.P.

"Nebotičnik" (Slovenian for "skyscraper") is a prominent high-rise located in the centre of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and is one of the city's most recognizable landmarks. The building's spiral staircase leads up to the top of the building which is 70.35 m high. When you look down from the top of the staircase it almost feels like it's infinite. And it looks amazing. I've never been there; this challenge was the perfect excuse to go up and see the view of the city as well as the spiral staircase. I was a bit lightheaded from walking all the way up to the top of the staircase; when I looked down from the top it almost felt as if the spiral was pulling me downwards, the bottom definitely appearing to be nowhere to be seen. The red banister made a nice contrast to the grey stairs. It felt perfect for the challenge so I took the photo.

Settings: Canon EOS 60D, Canon EF-S 18-135mm kit lens, ISO 800, f3.5, 1/200sec, 18mm

- Janja Nikolic

After hearing about this contest, I already knew that I wanted to do a picture involving Scrabble. Two weeks ago, I was at a tea lounge with friends and they had Scrabble as a board game to play with. In the game, there are only 100 usable letter tiles, but with those tiles the player could create a virtually infinite amount of words. I spilled the tiles out on my floor, turned off the lights and used my external flash to illuminate the tiles and black out the background.

Here's a link to other examples of my work: http://www.flickr.com/photos/58402676@N08/5767054702/in/photostream

-Nikon D7000
-Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8
-SB-800
-Manfrotto 055XPROB

- Arvin Alvarez

Shooting Summary:
iPhone4, 3.9 mm, f/2.8, 1/15

Thought I could create the Infinite loop effect by using this simple trick. Used mine and my friends iPhones to shoot at each other multiple times, each time keeping the photo that was just shot on the phone's screen

- Vamsi Avala

At first I tried something with mirrors, but that didn't turn out too well. So I had a change of heart (thanks to my girlfriend) and switched to a pipe with the camera on one side and an elbow pipe on the other. While taking the photo, I used the flash to flash into the pipe on the other side.

Is that infinity? No
Is it infinitely cool? Maybe
Is it better than shooting in mirrors? Definitely, yes!

I used:
a NikonD300 with a Nikkor 18-200mm lense @18mm; ISO was at 200; F-Stop at f/22; Exposure time 6 sec
a Nikon SB-900 Flash in RPT mode remotely triggered; Output level was at 1/128; 10 flashes at 10 Hz

- Bernhard Petracek

I don't have any any better quality versions of this photo, which is kind of the reason why it's a bit different from most of the submissions you'll probably get.

Story
It's funny how when you think about something, you'll stroke your chin, or fidget with a pencil. By distracting your physical senses, your brain can get onto thinking. While reading the contest, I was playing with the inertia bounce of the Instagram application on my phone — the screen where your feed is displayed. I'll often import images into Instagram, shots taken with the default Camera application itself. Since they're bigger, the images bounce a little as you resize them to fit the square format. With a screencap of each step, I realised I could create an Infinite Loop!

Technical bits:
iPhone 3GS, Instagram Application

- Peter Franc

I had seen this type of photo before and wanted to give it a shot. Luckily I was able to bump up my ISO in order to keep my 6 year old in focus long enough to create the shots needed. My first go around I thought I would try to do some light painting in the photos to try to differentiate my photos from the pack but by photo 3 my mini flashlight died. So I scrapped those photos and decided to process the 2nd to last photo in B&W so it would be surrounded by the last color photo. I was please with the outcome. Most of the photos were shot at different settings, but they were all shot with the Canon T2i with the Rokinon 14mm Lens. The final photo is at ISO 200 at 1/5 of a second. The lens was set manually at around f4.

- Drew Eldridge

"Infinite climb"

I had no creative idea for this week challenge until I ended up in one of the NYC landmark buildings and thought of the ever continuous stairs. I didn't have any time to set up my tripod, so I just bumped my ISO to 800 and set aperture to f2.8 for a handheld shot. Set the lens to its lowest zoom of 17mm and took a few shots. In post processing I added some split toning to give the straits look a bit more older look. Canon T2i.

- Aleks Oz

In chaos theory, the "butterfly effect" is when a small change - like the motion of a butterfly's wings - can result in the creation of large systems, like tornados, over space and time. According to Wikipedia, the butterfly effect in fiction is often used in reference to time travel "and with "what if" cases where one storyline diverges at the moment of a seemingly minor event resulting in two significantly different outcomes." Shortly after reading the challenge (and thinking it was too hard), I saw from my window a butterfly landing on my purple salvia, and thought of the butterfly effect as a wonderful metaphor for infinity and the unanticipated changes that move us into a future formed and reformed by chaos. The late afternoon light was perfect, so I ran downstairs. He stayed around for some great shots so close and focused you could see the fur glisten on his belly, and the folds of his wings like a fan. But I picked a more abstract shot that captures the movement of the wings and a mysterious light, with a small focal range only on the more stationary flower stem and the very inner edge of the butterfly's wings. Nikon D5000, shutter 1/3200, f/1.8, !S0 250, 33mm. No adjustments to the original picture.

- Cathy de Moll

I was up visiting my family in Colorado this past weekend, and we decided since I had never been that I should see the mountains. We did a little driving, and there we were. It was beautiful, and yet all I had was my iPhone 4. A bit angry that I didn't have my Canon T1i, and knowing the iPhone took decent pictures, I went at it. This picture was one of the best I took. I used my mirrored aviators to show the reservoir. I felt like this fit the category of infinite, because in the mirror image, the sky and mountains seem to go forever. I have to say, this definitely shows off the iPhone 4's camera.

- Sam Kirsch

This is one of my first captures off my new camera, bought just a few hours back. :)

Since capturing infinity was the challenge for the week, and that is what I tried to do with this picture, and an infinite attempts later, I was manage to capture infinity. Had visualized the concept as soon as I read about the challenge.

The shot was captured on self-timer mode, with an ISO speed 100 and 3.2 sec exposure, with the camera resting on a makeshift stand.

- Neel Indap

The kit for this one was a Canon EOS 550D, with the kit 18-55 Lens. Settings were 1600ISO, with a 1/8 shutter (auto aperture).

Now the story is a little interesting. I've only had this camera for less than a week (my first >£80 camera), so I'm still getting to grips with it so to speak. Secondly I only browse Gizmodo occasionally, so I didn't find out about this until 11pm GMT (I'm in Portsmouth, UK). After trying to come up with a few philosophical takes on Infinity, I thought I'd go back to basics. So I stuck the ceiling light on, put the zoom up and the focus as close as possible and stuck the camera up against a mirror. It took a few shots before I got one that was reasonably steady (although there is still some minor ghosting. Next purchase: Tripod).

After I glanced on the screen I knew this would be a great shot. The curves in the lenses distorted the colour of the ceiling lamp nicely, while also getting some reflection between the two.

- Adam Hayter

I originally was going to submit a shot of the sea and sky but my wife convinced me to change my photo to this entry. She said it was more interesting. Since its hard to take a picture of something so big, I took the interpretive route.

My photo is of my three year old son's stacking blocks, lined up, and photographed while zooming the lens out. I'm not sure what it is supposed to be...maybe traveling at warp speed through infinitesimal space. Or something like that.

Tech Info:
Canon EOS REBEL T1i
Lens EF-S18-55mm 4/3.5/5.6 IS
1/2
f/16
55-27 mm
ISO 100
0 EV

- Matthew Johnson

This is a picture looking up from the base of a public Dave Chihuly glass installation in Tacoma, Washington. If you were to see the installation from the outside, it would look something like a bunch of huge ice cubes at the top of an especially tall stick, or perhaps extra-large rock candy. I was out shooting with my dad today and the way the metal poles sort of spiraled upwards holding up the glass made me think of something infinite.

Nikon D3100 at 1/4000 ISO 400 f 3.5 on a 60mm Micro Nikkor

- Ashok Chandwaney

I used my HTC Droid Incredible and Canon 7D for this shot. I wanted to use the angled mirrors as well as the picture within a picture concept. I've spent a lot of time trying to envision how far a picture within a picture can be seen. Theoretically it can exist beyond what our vision will even allow because of the dimensions shrinking each level.

This picture is of my phone held up to a mirror, with a picture of my phone held up to a mirror in it, with a picture of my phone held up to a mirror in it, with a picture of my phone held up to a mirror with a picture of angled mirrors circling backwards in it. I started by taking a picture with my phone held against one mirror angled towards another mirror. Then I took a picture of my phone showing the first picture and its reflection in the mirror, using my Canon 7D. I transferred this picture to my phone and then took another picture with my Canon 7D of the phone with this picture showing in it, held up against a mirror to show the reflection as well. I repeated this process once more. Then I took a picture of my phone showing that picture with the mirrors angled to show more than one reflection of the phone and picture on it. Finally I took a picture of my phone showing that last picture with its reflection.

I also used this technique of using my phone and camera as I've begun to use my phone more for photographer, as have many others. But I also circle back to my SLR. I need them both for my complete photography though.

Camera: Canon 7D (and HTC Droid Incredible)
Lens: 50mm
ISO: 800
f/5.0
1/50 sec

- Gina Todorovich

This image was taken with a Canon T3i, the EF-S 18-55mm kit lens, and a Canon Speedlite 430EX. The subject is a large collection of magnetic spheres (generic no-name brand, not the expensive name brand kind), formed into a long tube. The camera was set up so that the center of the lens looked directly down the center of the tube. An external light was used to provide light through the holes in between the spheres, and a flash was used to provide fill light after being reflected off suspended pieces of paper that were strategically placed above the tube. A very small aperture was used to increase the depth of field as much as possible, but even using this the DOF was still quite shallow. A long exposure was needed to get enough light with such a small aperture.

Shooting mode: Manual
Focus: Manual
Shutter: 30 Sec
Aperture: f/32
ISO: 800

- Matt Hicks

This contest was a lot of fun, and it was hard to decide which picture to go with! I tried as much as possible to stay away from mirrors for this challenge and played around with illusions and making physical objects that appear to stretch into infinity. The picture I chose for this contest is actually a picture of the inside of a paper cone. What I did was make a black border with a sharpie around the edges of a 8x11 piece of paper, then rolled that into a tight cone. I then taped this cone over my lens and then took a whole bunch of pictures using different lighting sources (must have looked ridiculous). This particular picture was taken with my desk lamp over top of the middle of the cone, which gave me the fade in and fade out (played a little bit with the contrast and brightness as well). It reminds me of space, and every time I look at the picture I feel as though I am being sucked into a black hole and into infinity. Hopefully you feel the same!

Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-G2
Lens: 14-42 (shot at 14mm)
ISO: 100
F-stop: f/3.5
Exposure time: 1/20 sec

- Jeffrey Groom

This is a shot that my wife and I came up with that represents our interpretation of "infinite". We both came up with similar ideas pretty much right away, so we combined them and got this!

Of course, everyone is going to take this picture and my following description of it differently, so I just want to say I mean no offense and pass no judgement on anyone by posting this. I just hope you can look at it (and enjoy it too) as a bit of artful interpretation ;)

The picture is of both our wedding bands laying on a Bible. Specifically, 1 Corinthians 13, which speaks about love. As both of us are strong in our faith, we thought what better way to symbolize "infinite" than our wedding bands laying on the word of God. Of course, the wedding bands (being circles) symbolize an "infinite commitment" to each other and the Bible could symbolize in this case, either Gods eternal commitment to us or Gods Omniscience/Omnipresence/Omnipotence.

We were busy all weekend, so this was shot at the last minute on Sunday. It was taken in a dark room using only an LED flashlight to illuminate the shot. Taken with a Canon T2i and a EF50mm Compact Macro lens. No flash, ISO100, f/11 and 1 second exposure. Tweaked slightly and cropped with iPhoto '11.

- Aaron + Jen

I pointed my webcam at a live feed of itself. Then, I tilted it to produce a spiral effect. The hardest part was maintaining focus and not blowing out the highlights since I was hand-holding the camera. I tried various colors and images on my desktop wallpaper before finally settling on this one (http://www.flickr.com/photos/hisgett/4220467014/sizes/l/in/photostream/) which had a Creative Commons license on Flickr. My specs are as follows: Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000, 3.7mm, F/2.0 (sorry, that's all I could figure out).

- Sheryl Delrosario

When I think of infinite, I think of the universe. One hypothesis says the universe is something like the surface of a bubble that curves back around upon itself. This could lead to the observations that if you look back far enough that you could see around the universe multiple times, looking back at various points of its history. So my first thought was trying the mirror shot reflecting the stars. But, I did not have the mirrors for the shot. (Sure I could have taken the wall mirror down in the bathroom and cut it into pieces, but I think my wife would not react well to that.) I briefly considered a Mobius Strip, but quickly rejected the idea. Then I saw the sun catcher hanging by the window. So I tried setting the sun catcher onto the lens of my Canon EOS Rebel T2i while taking photos of the night sky. I also tried spinning the sun catcher just in front of the lens. One of the shots was with the moon in the frame, and the result was interesting. SO I submit the version that reminds me of a talk about perceiving dimensions beyond where a 4th dimensional cube was shown as the shadow of a transparent three dimensional cube. Then again, it could be more of an angelic take, which could lead to a more metaphysical discussion of what is infinite and infinity.

Camera Canon EOS REBEL T2i
Exposure 20
Aperture f/5.6
Focal Length 55 mm
ISO Speed 1600

Rio Rico, Arizona

- John Hays

I call this one "infinite blue sky". I thought a long time about how to tackle this challenge and it took an awful lot of work to get the setup just right. after about 100 test shots, I was ready. in the end, I think it worked out pretty well, don't you?

Camera Nikon D3000
Exposure 0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture f/4.0
Focal Length 70 mm
ISO Speed 560

- Bob Zimway

Well, as usual for me, I approached the challenge with much haste, waiting until the 11th hour to even think about doing something. So, after dark last night, I decided to try something. I thought that shooting through a tube and playing with light in the tube might be a way to simulate an infinity look. Problem 1: finding a tube at 11pm on a Sunday night.

I looked around and all I could find that might work was a Slinky. So I went outside to the 2nd level of my kid's playhouse, taped one end of the slinky to a 55mm Macro lens and dropped it down to the ground.

The next problem was the wind so I needed to weight it down and I thought that I could try a light source of some sort. The only thing I could find was a candle because I needed my flashlight to see what I was doing.

I taped the candle to the other end of the slinky and then used my flashlight as a highlight on the outside of the slinky. Success? Not really. Because of the movement of the slinky, I wasn't able to stop the lens down enough to get more of the slinky in focus and give more of a distance effect, due to the increased shutter time, and it might not have worked anyway but this is what I got. Lumix GH2 ISO 1250 Nikkor 55mmMacro @ f5.6 1/40th sec.

- Tim Hammer

Kodak Z980
ISO Speed at ISO-64, Macro On, Flash Off, Exposure +1 compensation, other settings Auto, used a tripod

∞
Infinity. The very idea of capturing something limitless and boudless, greater than anything else, seemed fascinating to me. But is it possible to capture something in a non-finite manner?

Subject of the shot is our TV. Connected the cam to it - no hdmi out so 480p video-out only :'( - set up the cam on the tripod and got this shot after a few tries. Managed to capture the 'Shooting Info' before it disappeared ;) - strangely the EXIF info contained a slightly different shutter speed (1/6 on the image and 1/2 in EXIF).

You can see the " tv-in-a-tv-in-a-tv-in-a-tv-in-a-...... ∞ " stretching on to 'infinity' , or at the least, 'near-infinity'.

- Krishvanth Suresh

I took this shot today with my D80. It is a metallic fence of a small shop.

- Sébastien Bonaimé

Device:
iPhone 4, HDR

I used a jailbroken iPhone 4 with Display Recorder to take the photo along with my laptop installed with iDemo. I just took the photo of iDemo displaying real time screens from my iPhone to create the infinity shot. I shot it at an angle and the result is this cool infinite spiral effect.

- Chon Neth

This was shot with a Canon 7D and 24-70mm f/2.8L lens set at 32 mm, F11 and 1/200.

While trying to decide on what would be the best subject for this challenge, I was explaining what an infinite loop was to my 10 year old son. After a few failed attempts at getting my point across his eyes finally lit up as he said, "you mean like in Portal where you can make her fall forever?" I knew then and there what we were going to be doing this past weekend. So, here's an infinite loop as envisioned by Zack Evans.

- Daryl Evans

This footwear might look like the spawn of a three-way with shoes, stilts and a computer, but the super-awkward ForceShoe is actually a smartie, telling you exactly how you walk.

Developed by researchers at University of Twente's MIRA research institute, the ForceShoe contains four sensor modules at the heel and the front of the foot to analyze the precise movements of your feet. Like how much force your foot is exerting on the ground at any given moment. The shoe was initially developed to assess rehabilitation in stroke patients, but researchers are now looking at using it in high-level sports analysis.

Unfortunately, however, it does not come with sensors when you're about to get punched in the face for wearing them. [UTwente via PhysOrg]

And the coveted streaming service could come to the U.S. as soon as this summer. (Yes!) [AllThingsD]

IBM researchers have created the first graphene-based integrated circuit constructed on a wafer of silicon, in a setup that's smaller than a grain of salt. The circuit is a broadband frequency mixer, which can operate up to a decent 10GHz.

It's yet another advancement in the use of graphene—which, in case you forgot, is that fantastic, ultra-thin "wonder material" that won two scientists the Nobel prize for physics. Graphene is only one layer of (carbon) atoms thick—but despite its ultra-lightness, it's still nearly indestructible. Like, 200x stronger than steel and the strongest substance in the known universe kind of indestructible. But it's also flexible and its conductivity is 100x greater than silicon. So it's badass.

Pretty soon, we could be seeing applications of graphene in high-bandwidth communication and low-cost smart phone and TV displays. But before now, researchers hadn't been able to make graphene adhere to other metals and oxides. IBM's researchers overcame this. They applied wafer-scale fabrication procedures that maintained its quality while letting it integrate with other components.

Compared to silicon, the graphene transistor could be less expensive, use less energy and significantly free up room in portable electronics and smart phones. [Science via MSNBC Cosmic Log]

According to a Federal Court release, the presiding judge will still hold much sway over these cameras in court. He can stop a recording if it impinges on the rights of witnesses or if it's necessary to preserve the dignity of the court, and will have final say over the video being made accessible to the public. Of course, coverage of the jury will not be permitted, and all parties must give their consent before the recording of each proceeding can take place.

The pilot recordings will not be simulcast, but if they pass standards, they'll be available shortly after on www.uscourts.gov and local court websites. The experiment will begin July 18th with a mix of US District judges—including those who are both for and against cameras in courtrooms. [Network World via Slashdot]

At the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, a bunch of students just invented a machine called Ruby, which can solve a Rubik's Cube in 10.69 seconds—the fastest ever for a robot.

The robot scans each side of the cube using a webcam and applies a special software algorithm to figure out the solution. But the fastest time for solving the Rubik's Cube is still held by a flesh-and-blood human being, Feliks Zemdegs, who beat the cube in a blazing 6.24-seconds at the Kubaroo Open in 2011. [PhysOrg]

Camera Model Canon EOS 50D
Tv 1.0
Av f/22
ISO 500
Lens EF28-135 IS USM (IS off)
Focal Length 55.0mm - 135mm
Flash Off
Tripod
2 x 1500W Fluorescent bulbs (No Diffusion)
Processing: removed strings holding up the guitar

I found this a good opportunity to get use out of equipment for my other hobby, since I never practice. With my sons help, we hung the guitar from the backdrop support. We placed the lights to get the best reflection off the bridge and pegs. We shot about 250 pics using various flash options, light angles, and zoom speeds (manual) and starting points. For the final submission we started the shot with the lens at 55mm and manually zoomed out to 135mm with about a quarter second pause after the shutter opened.

- Jody Gollihugh

Nikkon D90 Nikkon 18-105mm Lens ISO 250 52mm f/29 1.0sec

The reason I picked this particular photo is due a favorite childhood memory. As a child of a military family I traveled to many places around America and other countries. This place was one that has always stuck out in my mind. I drove 11 hours from Raleigh, North Carolina to Ithaca, New York to take this photo and capture one of the happiest memories of my lifetime.

- Benjamin Wilson

I've been saying for MONTHS I should do one of these challenges. i was interested in competing in lasts weeks, but was just to busy. This weekend I was able to make a break up to the Parents cottage, 3 kids in tow. I had my camera, caught some decent shots, but it was far to bright to do a full one second exposure AND try to make it interesting. I forgot to bust the camera out while hanging out around the fire pit. I was running out of time and it didn't hot me till I was on the drive home.

First of all, I don't condone distracted driving. I was a bad boy, and did just that. One hand on the wheel, the other hefting the camera against the dash and windshield. 5 shots later of complete darkness and puzzled mind, I realized the lens cap was still on. With only a few miles to my doorstep, I ripped out a few shots. If I was forced to name this shot, I would call it "Drunk Driver". While the results were NOT what I was looking for, I figured it was interesting all the same.

Light modification via photoshop to reduce noise.

Canon Rebel XT
1 sec.
f/11
28mm Tamron f/2.8 28-75mm
ISO 1600
Manual Exposure

- Brian Kleppert

My daughter always talks about being afraid of Stitch after we took her to Disney to see him (if it's a him)...So to make Stitch cool again and not frightening, I decided to give my daughter a little show. I took her in the bathroom and turned the lights off and gave her a light show with Stitch toy we got from a doctor when she had her shots.... To pull the trick off I had to have total darkness that's why I chose the bathroom because it does not have a window. I left the door cracked open a little so that some light would come in....

I used a Nikon D7000, 1 second shutter, f10, iso 500, remote trigger ML-L3 standard camera flash. It took me 17 tries to figure out what I really needed to do to get the shot I wanted...

- Arthur Davis

Memorial Weekend Family Fire. Uncle Rory threw some old Christmas lights in the fire.

Camera: Canon T1i
Lens: EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
Exposure Time: 1 second
F-Stop: 9.0
ISO: 400

- Gabby Gillingham

For this shot, I used a shallow basin of water, a flashlight, and black food coloring. I used my Canon 7D, with its pop-up flash coupled with an LED flashlight. I set the shot as such: 1 second shutter, f/5.6, iso 400, at 2500k (color temp). My lens, the EF-S 17-55mm allowed me to get adequate coverage, as I timed the drops of the food coloring falling into the pool of water. I snapped several shots, but found that this one stood out the most: the flashlight highlighted the rebounding water particles as the black coloring rippled through the once still water. It almost seem as though the water is smoking.

- Jonathan Su

This photo was taken with my Nikon D5000 with the kit lens at f/5.6, ISO-200, and with a focal length of 36 mm. The photo was taken at a Memorial Day fireworks show. Minor post-processing was done in Photoshop to fine-tune the exposure.

- Michael Douglas

I recently moved to the San Francisco area and have seen the wind farms near Tracy and Livermore from a plane during the descent into SFO. This challenge provided the motivation to get up and visit the Altamont Pass wind farm early in the morning. I tried several shots relatively close to the wind turbines, but at a shutter speed of one second, the blades completely disappeared. Getting further away makes the blurring more subtle and, as my wife said, makes the wind turbines look like dandelions. Since the sun was up, a 3.0 (1000x, 8 stops) neutral density filter was required to use a one second shutter speed, but using it made focusing and composition extremely difficult because it blocks so much light. Nikon D3s, Nikkor 24-70mm at 70mm, 1 second, F8, ISO 400, with a 3.0 neutral density filter.

- Ken Moore

Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XSI
Lens: Canon 50mm EF 1:1.8 II
Shutter Speed: 1s (obviously)
ISO: 1600
F3.2

We took the kids camping, and while they were playing with flashlights inside the tent, I was playing with taking pictures of the campfire sparks outside the tent... (don't worry the tent wasn't as close to the flames as it appears in the picture). Unfortunately I had to crank up the ISO to get the tent from getting lost in the dark... most of the pictures were barely light enough at F1.8, but this one had lots of sparks so it jumped up to 3.2 (in this one split second I probably could have used a lower ISO with a wider aperature, but there wasn't time to adjust as the sparks flared up).

- Todd Sonneborn

Camera: Canon S95
Lens: Built-in
ISO: 80
Aperture: F/5.6
Focal Length: 10.7mm

I took this picture of myself and some friends playing a board game, and the picture captures the action in the middle of a large turning point in the game. Taken using a GorillaPod to hold the camera, the picture was taken in shutter-priority mode, and some color correction, white-balance correction, and re-sizing was done with Canon Digital Photo Professional.

- Matt Hicks

My girlfriend brought her camera over and i stole it away from her while she was taking some shots for the contest. My brother had some magnesium ribbon and decided to play around with it at the fire. Really fortunate to get the star burst considering how bright magnesium burns. No additional processing done, all stock.

sony a330 1 second at f22 and 800 iso

- Zachary Wallace

Canon T2i, ISO 100, 55mm, -5EV, f22, 1 second

I drove to this dam near my friend's house in Rhode Island, hoping that my camera would be able to deal with the lighting conditions... it obviously did NOT (I should have read the challenge instructions more carefully!). After 10 mins back on the road on my way home (with some terribly overexposed pics), I called my cousin Jorge to pretty much just complain about the whole situation, and he suggested I tried using my prescription sunglasses as a make-shift filter. I drove back to the dam, took what it felt like a million pics and... VOILA! IT WORKED. Jorge, you're a genius!

- Diego Jiménez

This Memorial day weekend my boyfriend had a party. After he and his brother tossed in fire crackers which only resulted in a loud noise (sadly no cool visual effect) they brought out a strip of magnesium. Normal, right? As it lit up, I snapped this photo. I like the sci-fi/alien-esque feel of the picture that this gives off. I edited the contrast in photoshop after.

I used a Sony a330 with an f stop of 5.6. The ISO was 800 and a shutter speed of, of course, 1 second.

- Elizabeth Fleming

Date: Thursday, May 26, 2011
Camera: Nikon D7000
Lens: AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR
Focal Length: 32mm
Shutter Speed: 1s
Aperture: f/6.3
ISO Sensitivity: ISO 500

This is our Golden Retriever, who had a bit of anxiety over the tripod that I had set up in front of her (hence the single raised eyebrow look). The dog was a bit sleepy, which helped out with the picture since she stayed relatively still. I took the picture from about 3 feet away, with an incandescent floor lamp for lighting out of the frame to the right. I started with the lens at 32mm, and zoomed out slowly while the shutter was open. Slow and steady zooming seemed to produce the best results for me. A quick and snappy zoom produced an effect that looked similar to what you might see in a double exposure on film- not the effect I was going for this time, but I might experiment with that in the future. This shot was zoomed about 10mm while the shutter was open, so from 32mm to around 20mm when the shutter closed.

- Daniel Perret

Shooting Summary:
Camera- Nikon D3000 with 50mm f/1.8
Shutter speed- 1 sec.
Aperture- f/4.5

My mother (a crazy person) loves to hula hoop with fire, so I've found myself given the title of official fire photographer. This is a shot of the outdoor fireplace that my mom and her friends were using to light their hoops before they started spinning. I like the look of the tinder, almost like styrofoam.

- Rachel Weiss

I am a first time submitter (to any photo contest!) but have been enjoying the site for a while. I was originally going to go with a waterfall and stream shot but wanted to come up with something more creative when this idea hit me. I have been experimenting with off-the-camera flash as it is relatively new to me and this was a great shot to try out. I used a Nikon D90 with a 16-85mm lens at 42mm, f/6.3 at ISO 400 and a SB-600 flash. A couple of slight touch ups were done in Photoshop.

- Ian Alfano

After hearing about this challenge, because I already had a couple ideas as to what I wanted to do. I had been experimenting with water for a while, so I thought that I should play around with water for this challenge. I filled up a black Lego tub with water and started shooting away.

Here are examples of my previous works http://www.flickr.com/photos/58402676@N08/5767054702/

Nikon D7000
55-200 f/4-5.6 Nikkor
Nikon SB-800

- Arvin Alvarez

"A Happy Little River"

On my lunch break I walked to the Spokane Falls to take pictures of the rush of snow melt coming down from the nearby mountains. What I got was a little Bob Ross brush stroke like effect on the water. I used my nikon d60 with the basic 55-200 lens, a stack of an 8 and a 4 rating ND filters to help with the bright light I had to deal with, and a 6 dollar wide angle attachment. ISO 200, 55mm, f/22

- Jacob Herres

Writing this description was the hardest part about doing this challenge. Despite the fact that I took over fifty shots of the same R2-D2. I decided to create a fake rainbow with the home screen of my brothers cellphone, while light painting the R2-D2 with a hand cranked light from the 70's. Vintage and technology working together as one as I always say. This picture proved to be both challenging and fun while show casing R2-D2's curvacious features. -Andy M.

Shutter speed 1''. Aperture f 6.3 ISO 100
Shot with a Canon Rebel T2i

- Andy Montoya

Perfect timing for this challenge. I just purchased a new lens for my T2i Camera (EFS55-250mm) and had started playing around with what it can do at night. I also recently bought some new solar powered LED lights to light a path in the yard, and really liked the pattern the lights made around themselves. Sort of reminds me of lights underwater. So that is what I chose, the lights, and the pattern around them.

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Date Acquired 2011:05:29 22:09:22.521
Last Keyword XMP Gizmodo 1 Second Challenge
Subject Gizmodo 1 Second Challenge

- John Hays

I took this photo with my Sony Nex-Vg10. I was just very bored last night and decided to try a photo challenge. I had no idea where to go to take a cool picture so i just started clicking off picture and the next thing you knew, bam, I took a half way decent photo.

- Dan Jarvis

Shot with my Sony A230 + Tamron 75-300mm, 1s, f/40. Only a couple hours after this challenge came out my wife and I went out for a stroll around our local trail, camera+tripod in hand of course (this always gets interesting looks from the other trail-users). We had a heck of a storm a couple of days before and were happily greeted with a green luscious landscape, and a roaring river just right for a one-second shot.

- Luis Antonio

I tried to take a picture of the creek behind my house during daylight but having a house full of kids this weekend hampered my daylight shooting time. So once they were all asleep, I took my desk lamp and a long extension cord and headed down to the creek. It has been raining all weekend, so the creek was higher than normal. Canon 7D 1 sec f/3.5 ISO 640 kit lens.

- Chris McCready

Canon T3i, 55-250 w/ 0.9 Neutral Density Filter on a tripod.

f/22 / 1.00s / ISO 100 / 55-250@55mm

Tumalo Falls, Bend, Oregon

Not a very entertaining story, but I've been to Tumalo Falls dozens of times since I moved to Bend, but never got the perfect shot. I have had my neutral density filter for months now but this was the first time I've had the opportunity to use it and I love it! I'm still learning how to shoot in manual with the filter, but I'm learning. These shooting challenges always give me great reasons to get creative with my camera.

- Eric Jensen

Canon T1i
EF-S 18-200mm @ 18mm and F/3.5
ISO 1600

For my one second exposure I wanted to find something that was moving to create a blur effect, but instead I found a low-light situation where that one second was just as useful. I took this shot while visiting the Griffith Observatory. Inside the housing for the public telescope it is really dark, so the one second exposure helped capture details that I didn't really notice until looking at the photo, like the interesting contrast of the supports against the dome of the observatory.

- Spencer Wilde

"Sandhill Crane in the Morning"

Fujifilm s100fs — 1" — F7.1 — ISO 100 — 53.1mm — Velvia film simulation

- Mike Case

One second Photo at Glen Cove, Maine
5/30/2011
Photo by By Dennis Foster, Cincinnati, OH

Shooting Summary:
Sony DSLR A-100
ISO = 100
70-300 Sony Zoom = 140mm
Shutter = 1 second
F-stop = f/40

We like to spend Memorial Day in Maine at a little Motor Lodge near Rockland called The Ledges. When I woke up this morning I saw the tall ships in our cove surrounded in fog. It was 5:30 AM and I thought about it twice before getting up and going out on the grass covered hill behind our room to get the shot. A few seconds after I took this shot the boats were invisible. By the time the fog lifted again, it was too bright to shoot at one second.

- Dennis Foster

Taken with a Canon D60 and a 0.9 Neutral Density filter, one second exposure at f/9.0, ISO 100. Edited curves and saturation in Paint.NET.

This is a picture of the Deschutes River, Tumwater falls (in the far distance) and the old brewery, where Olympia Beer used to be made. The camera was on a mini tripod, very close to water level.

- Brian Hall

I shot this in my kitchen behind a dark wall with not lights except for the candle. I lit the candle and used a remote shutter release while I blew the flame to create motion. I used my Canon Rebel XSi with 18-55mm Lens, f/13.0, ISO 100, and obviously 1" shutter speed.

- Seth Porter

Shot on the "L" platform in Chicago at Diversey Brown Line stop.
Canon Rebel T2i
ISO 100
1 Second (obviously)
f36

- Rob Lennox

Camera: Kodak EasyShare Z980
ISO Speed: ISO-200
Exposure Time: 1 sec
Aperture: f/8
The Shot:
My initial plan was to shoot something in daylight without using a filter and tripod and after doing that (came out decently too - used a combination of shade and fingers for filtering excess light) , decided to upload to Giz. But I wasn't happy with the 'subject' of the shot. A day later, I was fiddling with the camera on a tripod in a dark room, trying to get a 'nice shape' with my Mobile's LED light and an LED Torch. Nothing great came out of that too. And then my brother showed up and joined the fun - which involved throwing my mobile phone and the torch around. Uploaded here is the very first shot we took. I think we can call this, "The Present under the Christmas Tree". Ignore strange looking objects. They're pillows.

- Krishvanth Suresh

When I read post about contest I immediately start to think what can I capture for 1 second. And I decide don't walk too far. I captured the most expensive stuff in our life. I captured "1 second". We can buy expensive watches, but we can not buy time that measures that watches. 1 second is not a big amount of time, but our life contains from millions of that small periods of time. Some seconds have more value for us than another. Some seconds we would like to make a 1/1000 of second (if it's not so enjoyable period). But it's better to realize that basically our time is only thing in life that have most high value.

for that shoot I use Nikon D80. AF-S Nikkor 18-135mm. f 1/14. 1sec. ISO 100. cheap tripod made in china. nature light.

I'am not a professional photographer.

- Konstantin Vedernikov

Camera : Canon rebel T2i.
Lens : Canon 60mm USM Macro
F : 4
Speed : 1s
ISO : 1600

Title: The TypeWriter

History behind the shoot:
One of the very first devices that cause a inpact on me was the typewriter. I remember my father typing quite fast on a very old typewriter machine that stills around for some reason. For this challenge I wanted to capture how fast someone cam be on typing a letter on it.

- Gustavo Zagato

No description provided.

- napjohn8@gmail.com

This challenge was a surprise. I had just gotten back from a 4 day trip with the guys and needed some food and R/R. Went down to the local mall in Chattanooga, TN to the Panera to pick up the food and saw this small carnival going on. I didn't go in, but I did get to listen to For Whom the Bell Tolls and Razors Edge while watching a dude that looked just like Joe Dirt throw red rings at coke bottles. "Winning"! Shot with Canon T2i and Rokinon 14mm lens. 1 second exposure at ISO 400 and I believe around f8(ish). This lens doesn't have proper connections so it shoots only manual aperture, I wasn't paying attention at the time. I did however use the live-view for focus.

- Drew Eldridge

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel
lens: 75-300mm 1.5m/4.9ft
F-Stop: f/29
Exposure time: 1 sec.
ISO: 100
Exposure bias: 0 step
Focal length: 110 mm
Metering mode: Pattern

I was so excited about the One Second photo challenge because I've been wanting to try out a long exposure photo for a while. My niece invited me out for a day at Maymont Park, which is a beautiful park in Richmond, VA. There are quite a few waterfalls and fountains and thought one would be nice. The one that I chose is directly across from a Gray fox exhibit. We were standing in the shade and I didn't even need to open my tripod, I just used the edge of the bridge we were standing on. I had it on a 2 second timer (to limit any human error or shaking) and a split second before the timer went off, the bird flew down and landed right in the shot. That's what I like to call a happy little accident.

- Amanda Jaeger

Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Lens: Tamron 17-50 2.8
f/3.5
Exposure 1sec
ISO-200kyl
Focal Lenth 50mm

When I decided to shoot something for this challenge I immediately thought of shooting something with movement to take advantage of the long one second exposure. Being near my guitars/bass's at the the time I decided to try and capture the stings moving through the air. I took a couple of shots of my bass and this is the one I kept. The only thing I did to the original photo is apply a little color with a LR preset.

- Steven Chiasson

I'm an aspiring photography student, right now im taking classes at the local community college and eventually I'll be transfering to the UCONN school of art. Lately I've been doing a lot of HDR work, I think you guys actually had an article on that a while back. So never one for convention my submission to the contest is actually three photos each with an exposure of 1/3 a second, bracketed from under to over exposed and stitched together with an Adobe Lightroom plug in called PhotoMatix Pro, which is excellent for HDR. These three photos combine to make an exposure of 1 second. The subject matter is some form of flowering plant that currently resides in my Mother's attempt at a garden. I use a Nikon D80 with a Tamron 28-80mm lens (cant wait to get the new Nikkor 50mm 1.8 lens). My ISO was set at 250 and i used a tripod to compensate for the slow shutter speed. i made some slight adjustments with Lightroom before exporting but nothing major, I prefer to get everything just right while in camera as opposed to relying too much on a computer. Hope you guys like my submission, I don't live near any decent bodies of water to take a long exposure of so I figured I would think out of the box a bit.

- Sam Lindsay

Canon T1i, Stock Kit Lens
Sunpak Tripod
F-Stop:f/22
Exposure Time:1.2
ISO:100

Was taken in a local Gorge along the New York finger lakes. Ive been researching long exposure shots but hadnt gotten a chance to test it out until now. Hope you enjoy the photo.

- Jonathon Share

In fact I was just setting up my camera for a 1 second shoot at my dorm rooms Window when suddenly my cat was looking up to me. So spontaneously I took a picture of my cat (named Candy) from a focal length of 105mm back to 24 in one second. I wasn't able to take a second shot in order to get a more proper one, because she decided to climb a tree.

My Camera is a Canon 5D MkII and I used the 24-105mm 1:4L lens from Canon.
ISO was set to 100.
Tripod: my right Hand
Just did a small Lightroom color correction and vignetting. No lens correction.

- Jean-Marc Papi

Lens: Canon 18-55 (@ 18mm)
ISO: 100
Shutter Speed: 1 sec. (Of course)
Aperture: F/10

So, I found out about the contest the morning I took the photo, I went to work, got home and decided to go shoot. I have not entered since the 'Free Lensing' contest and I have not been able to take many photo's recently so I thought that this would be as good a time as any to get some more practice in! This photo was one of the last of the night, and I knew that I did not want to take a photo of the cheesy car lights streaming by, but at the same time, I did not want to try and avoid them either. I was walking down the street and noticed the bus stop, I realized that it would look pretty cool to have a bus stop with cars whizzing by, recreating the feeling of when your bus is there. I felt that the photo was missing something so I asked a man who seemed interested in what I was doing to stand in the enclosure and look towards the traffic which I feel was a great little added touch.

I did some colour correction (Mostly saturation/contrast tweaks) in Aperture, and I felt it was done!

- David Fulde

Camera: Nikon D80
Lens: 18-55 Kit Lens
ISO: 200
Aperture: f/8

This is a shot of the corner of East Picadilly Street and Cameron Street in Winchester, Virginia. The main structure in the photo is the historic George Washington Hotel. I had my camera on my tripod (basic tripod), and set the self timer so my movement wouldn't effect the shot. I was able to get the shot while a car passed by, so the photo has a combination of static elements as well as movement.

- Brandon Zauche

This is my first Gizmodo Shooting Challenge submission. I am a DJ and Nightclub photographer in Southern California. Usually I will take pictures of the DJs between 1/10 of a second and 1/100 of a second, but for this Shooting Challenge: 1 Second, I challenged myself to keep my shutter speed at 1 second for most of the night. This image is of Boris M.D. in our newly redesigned DJ booth bringing our artists within an arms reach of the crowd for Memorial Weekend. I am shooting with a Canon 5D Mark II with a Zeiss Distagon T* 2.8/21 ZE lens at f/2.8 and ISO 500. The contrast is boosted slightly in Photoshop.

- Corey Sandler

I am currently studying one semester abroad in Riga, Latvia and on my way to a student party I got this shot at the Latvian Statue of Liberty where the municipal police was just chasing away a group of drunk Germans who were up to no good. I am German, so I understood what they were shouting and the Latvians are very proud of this monument and won't allow any shenanigans near it ...

The shot was taken at 11:18 pm and you can see how bright the sky is about one month before midsummer.

Canon Powershot S95, ISO 80, F2.2, 1 Second on a GorillaPod

- Michael Körner

Design Rage. Freelancers know about this feeling. I was working on a logo design for a client (not pictured), and for a while it just wasn't coming together. Eventually I finished, but that frustration served as the inspiration for this photo.

Had my camera mounted on a tripod and triggered it by remote with a 2 second delay, then commenced violent head shaking.

Canon 7D, Sigma 17-35mm at 17mm, 1" at f/8, 640 ISO

- Angelico Tolentino

I was at the Eiffel Tower the other night and there was a guy who briefly swung some fire on a rope. Before he was chased off by the police I ran over with my tripod and got this picture with the Eiffel Tower in the background.

Canon Digital Rebel
F-Stop 4
Exposure 1 second
a tripod was used
UV filter was on

- Matt Flick

Camera: Canon 60D
Lens: EF 18-135mm IS
Aperture: 8.38
F Number: f/18
Exposure: 1s
ISO: 100
Focal Length: 135mm

I was around New Baneshwor area of Kathmandu. There was protest rally going on against Constitutional Assembly Members (Nepal is in process of drafting new constitution which is already delayed once and deadline is May 28th with no sign of constitution yet). It was a torch rally where protestors carried torch made of Bamboo stick with piece of bicycle tyre at one end dipped in petrol.

I took my camera out of the bag and started taking snap from one side of the road, one guy came running towards me with his torch and I had to retreat back with fear of burning. Later I realized he just wanted me to shoot him :) . I found that camera shake and my retreat composed this beautiful pattern of flames.

- Ankur Sharma

I haven't had enough time to get submissions in lately so I promised myself I would get one in at all cost this week. I was bored at work while updating some pc's in our tech lab and decided to work with what I had available. I took the cover off an old hard drive, turned it on, touched a screw to the platter to make it rough, used a sharpie to make a couple of black lines, grabbed a little penguin happy meal toy that was on the counter and velcro'd it to the center of the platter. I then turned it on, let it start to spin then immediately turned it off and snapped this picture as it almost slowed to a stop. It resulted in what looks like a little ghost penguin. So the running joke in the office is that someone ghosted a copy of Linux on this drive. :)

Camera: Canon T2i
F-stop: f/5.6
Exposure: 1 sec.
ISO: 100
Focal Length: 50mm
No Flash

- David Crosby

For this week's challenge i have something simple i have thought for a while. Figured i would use my car. Didnt managed to get the "car moving" shot i wanted, so i went the way i could do this alone.

Sony a230, 18-55mm lens, f/8, ISO-100, 40mm focal length hand held.

- Felix Garcia

Shooting Summary:

Camera: Nikon D7000
Lens: AF-S Nikkor 18-105 mm
ISO: 200
Aperture: f/7.1
Shutter: 1 sec.

We purchased a green laser pointer several months ago and played with it for a few hours shooting it all over the house at night, bouncing it off of mirrors and windows, cups and pots. The coolest effect we saw was shooting the laser through some crystal candlesticks. When thinking about this contest, the time spent playing with the laser came to mind. With the help of my daughter on laser duty, this shot is firing a green laser through a crystal candlestick while quickly zooming the lens to present an illusion of one candlestick inside of another.

- Brian Knack

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, EF24-105 f/4L IS USM lens @ 24mm
ISO 5000 f/5.6 1 second exposure, on tripod.

I'm often intrigued by the Shooting Challenge, but with a busy family I rarely find the time to enter. Fortunately the holiday weekend provided the perfect opportunity: While waiting for the fireworks show at our local fair, I tried a few different one-second strategies to capture the fun kids were having with glow sticks. Some of the other shots were technically 'cleaner', but I liked this one because all the stray light activity best conveys the feeling of being there.

The two identifiable people in the photo are my daughter, Avery (age 13), and my wife, Penny. Appropriate signed model release forms are attached.

- Brad Price

I just got back from a European tour and saw this challenge. I looked through some of my photos and found this one from when I was walking the streets of London. The sun was very low and I did not have much light, so I made sure to have the shutter open for a second to capture as much light. I find that taking pictures of anything in all sorts of perspectives and THEN looking at the shooting challenge is more fulfilling. I can't seem to get a shot I really like when I know what the challenge is first. Not knowing what the challenge is first helps me to see things in ways I never would have seen them before.

Sony Nex-3
F3.5
ISO 400
1''

- Jaclyn Breit

I took my daughter to "The Deep" today and we saw many fish, but one of her favorites was the sea anemone she recognised from finding nemo. It took me a few goes to get it looking right with the 1 second exposure, especially with the lightly moving tentacles, and low light, but I think in the end I got a good shot.

Canon G9
Focal Length: 7.4
F number: 2.8
Exposure time: 1

- Sam Goodwin

I knew shooting this week's challenge would be a bit scary, but I didn't realize just how much, until I was leaning slightly over a bridge railing, feeling the wind kick up my long hair, and hearing the cars zoom by at 65+ MPH below me. After hearing my idea for this shot, a male friend offered to accompany me, realizing that I may not be safe alone with a DSLR in Downtown LA at around 9:30 at night. As I was walking around, trying to figure out the best location for a shot, I actually wasn't too far from Skid Row, and passed by a number of homeless people. For this submission, I finally settled on the Wilshire overpass, looking down at the 110 Freeway, facing south. I will definitely never forget the night I shot this photo.

Details: shot May 28, 2011, Canon Rebel XSi, EF-S 18-55mm, ISO 100, 1", f/5.6, 18mm.

- Sheryl Delrosario

Karachi Skyline

At a dinner event at a rooftop restaurant (Avari Towers) I was covering the event with my camera. When all was over, it struck me that I had my 18-55 mm with me, and the shooting challenge hadn't closed yet. With the zoom at 18mm, took a 1-second exposure. Didn't have time to set up a tripod as everyone had left, and being the only one left standing was quite awkward. Nevertheless, went for it, and here it is.

Nikon D40, ISO 800, F/3.5, 1-second, 18mm, no tripod!

- Ali Mehdi

Location & Story

The west side of Columbus Circle, facing North towards the Trump International Hotel and Tower.

At night, Columbus Circle becomes a bustling and vibrant spot. The lights from the shops at the Time Warner Center, the headlights of the taxis zipping by, and the flood lights in the fountains and landscaping add to the colorful environment. This shot appeals to me because it captures this energy in the lower left, and as you get farther from the corner towards the right and top, a calm is found. To me, this captures what it is like to live in NYC. Even when you're surrounded by the city's electric pulse - there is always a place find a little peace.

Equipment

Body: Nikon D7000
Lens: Tokina 11mm-16mm f/2.8 + UV Filter
Manfrotto Tripod
Nikon Remote Release

Settings

Focal Length: 11mm
Shutter Speed: 1.0s
Aperature: f/6.3
ISO: 100

- Derek Wisong

For the challenge, I decided to use my favorite model (my daughter). This was taken while she was asleep at the night. I used the bed's headrest for stability. There were two sources of light - one coming from next room, and one from iPhone (I used the flashlight app). I thought the grey-scale version would be more appealing, and hence de-saturated the image using photoshop.

SPECS:

Camera : Nikon D80
Lens : 50mm prime
exposure : 1s (of course :) )
Apreture : F1.8
Metering : SPOT
Mode : Manual
ISO : 160
White Balance : Auto

- Felix Devasia

Nikon D80, 1sec, F9, ISO 100 11mm.

An old Carousel in the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris, during this sunny sunday. I called this picture "The flying saucer".

I did some small modification with LightRoom

- Sébastien Bonaimé

Knoxville, TN

Picture was taken while on hike in the Great Smokey Mountain National Park. Picture is of the Little Pigeon River along the Ramsay Cascades Trail. The trail is 8 miles round trip. This picture was taken at about 2 miles into the trail. I used a Canon 5d Mark II with a 24-105L F4 lens. The camera settings were of course 1.0 shutter speed at ISO100, F/9.0, 28mm focal length, with a neutral density filter.

- Matthew DeMaria

Shooting summary:
Camera: Nikon D300
Lens: Nikkor 18-200
ISO: 100
F-stop: F/11
Technique: Zooming

My boyfriend actually tried to come up with a nice shot for this challenge. He took me to a nearby pond and I spotted a nice view on a lovely yellow flower close to the pond. I asked him to do some zooming while I triggered the button. So, here I am submitting my idea of the 'one second' challenge while he is using his original idea.

- Jenny Regitschnig

I was really excited about this challenge and I spent most of my spare time - of which I didn't have a lot this weekend - planning and reading instruction manuals and how to's. I actually read so much that I almost forgot about taking the photo :)

Although I used "just" the zooming-technique, I learned a lot about stroboscope-photography, front and rear curtains, panning, .... I never got a chance to use it. I hope that the future contests give me a chance to try some of them too :)

I used a NikonD300 with a Nikkor 18-200mm lense; ISO was at 100; F-Stop at f/7.1; Exposure time ... well guess it
As described above I used the zooming-technique.

- Bernhard Petracek

Headed out for dinner in Portsmouth, NH, I decided to take my camera with me, looking like a tourist in my local area! I'm glad I did as it turned out to be a particularly foggy evening and the North Church looked spectacular enveloped in the fog. With this contest in mind, I took several images hand-held resting against a light post at 1-second shutter speeds trying to get a streak of head/tail lights I aesthetically liked. From 5 or so images, this is the one I liked best. Shot RAW in shutter priority mode with -1 exposure compensation on a Canon 7D with 10-22mm lens. Sharpening, slight desaturation, and slight vignetting done with Lightroom.

- Nathan Purmort

I was walking around, after sunset, trying to find some good shots of the traffic going into the John Fitzgerald Expressway; when I saw some kids playing in the fountains on the Greenway, so I stopped and managed to get this shot. Thought it looked kinda like an alien invasion.

Shot on a 5D Mark II with a 16-24mm Canon lens, f4.5, ISO 160, 1s shutter.

- Zeen Rachidi

Just One Second?

This shot of my Swiss Military Watch was taken at 4:20:08 pm on Saturday May 28th.

I was just taking a little break and thought I'd see how the photo would turn out.

Taken with a Nikon d90 using a Nikkor 18-55@55 mm. 1.00 s, f/11 and ISO 200.

- Win Barker

This week, the Shooting Challenge was quite tough to take. 1 Second is too long for daylight, and too short for nice shots. So tried to find some ideas how to get a snap.

Since I was at my girlfriend's place, celebrating her mother's birthday, I had the perfect excuse for not helping to prepare the party :-)

It took me quite a while to get a decent shot. This Pinwheel shot was taken with a D300, ISO 100, 35mm F22, Tripod

- Markus Enderlin

Equipment: Canon 550d, canon 50mm f1.4, tripod
Settings: ISO 400, f4, 1"

Just decided to join this challenge for the first time. I love abstract photography and this theme suited me just fine. I knew from beginning that i want to shoot some sort of movement in a static background. The bottle of airsoft BB's caught my eye, and i started to experiment with them on my ceramic living room floor. I was throwing BB's on a floor, moving them around and constantly took pictures. Cleaning afterwards was a pain! I chose one picture, did some color corrections and that is it. :)

- Karolis Kveselis

After last week's challenge, I was looking forward to this week's slow shutter challenge. I took a number of photos at one second and wasn't too happy with them. I decided to drive down to our local beach and take some shots of the ocean at dusk. The way the sea ebbs out with each wave leaves a "fog" among the stones on the beach when the photo is shot at one second. I was pleased at how this shot turned out. It also captured an incoming wave in the upper right corner.
I brought my tripod with me and my shutter remote to eliminate any camera shaking.

Tech info:
Canon EOS REBEL T1i
Lens EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS

ISO 100
55 mm
0EV
f/10
1.0

- Matthew Johnson

We went camping this weekend at one of the nearby provincial parks. It had a nice stream running through it that I knew would be perfect for the challenge. I shot several and picked out a good one to enter. That evening we were sitting around the campfire and watching the interplay of light and colors in the fire I decided to snap a few pics. It turned out I liked the results of the fire better than the water, so here it is. Shot with a Canon EOS 60D, EF 100 2.8L Macro at f22. No idea what kind of wood that is that's burning.

- Bruce Clement

It was pretty misty in the morning on a hillside in Washougal, Washington.
Noted were some trees that looked pretty chill with the mist that was rolling in. I decided to see If I could get a minimalistic sort of thing going on with a simple shot lined up to be mostly white with the tree the only black element in the picture; but slightly misty.

Taken with a Canon T2i (about a month old, heh.) stopped down to f/36, with ISO set to 100 and a shutter speed of, well, 1 second; then converted to B/W in post (Lightroom 3). I used just the basic 18-55mm kit lens @ a 55mm focal. A couple other minor adjustments aside from that. I also used a shutter release cable and a tripod.

- Andrew Ciobanasiu

Taken by Pentax K-X + Pentax 12-24mm f4 lens, f/8.0, 1s shutter, ISO560 @ 12mm

This is my first attempt to capture a lightning shot which I've been planning to do for a while and was in luck as last Wednesday we had a pretty big/long thunder storm in Toronto. I've been paying attention during previous thunder storms for areas that are more prone for lightning strikes. I set up my camera + tripod outside and snapped a few test shots to make sure the exposure is correct, after that it was all waiting game. Sure enough after roughly waiting outside for 30 minutes or so I saw a bright flash in the sky and I frantically pressed my shutter and start bursting away and here is the final product :)

- Luwi Ilham

Taken with a D5000, 1 second f/4.5 iso 320

Verrazano Narrows bridge in the evening taken from Atlantic Highlands, NJ. Note the Statue of Liberty underneath it.

- Andrew Crawford

Panasonic LX5 , I sec. exposure , f/4, ISO 80

I always wanted to enter, but have not had the time. Or, cool fancy camera. I finally decided to let my LX5 do something aside from candid party/hiking pictures. So, I walked through las vegas all weekend trying to find a cool shot, and pretty much gave up. Until 1 AM on Monday, when I noticed the balloons at the belagio and the awesome reflections of the patterned floor on the glass ceiling. snapped up a few shots, and finally got one without that much of a draft.

- Karla Cifuentes

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