A single camera, irrespective of the lens or the sensor, can only take a shot that’s so big. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, I need you to shoot double-wide photos, my plebeian name for a diptych.

The Challenge

Take two photos to create a fashionable diptych. The photos may well be blended together as component of a larger scene, or they could simply be complementary at a thematic level.

I was going to ask for landscape-style diptychs only, themselves comprised of two landscape-style photos. But I’d hate to restrict advisable. So just go nuts, arranging two shots of any aspect in whatever format you’d like. However, whatever the outcome, we’d like people so that you can download not less than a number of the photos for dual-screen monitor setups-which has been an important, constant request from the beloved peanut gallery. More on the resolution submission guidelines below.

The Method

The easiest method to understand the basis of a diptych is as a book cover. Disregard the binder, and just contemplate the front cover, back cover relationship-unified, though not necessarily matching.

I don’t wish to give too much guidance with this one. The diptych is an ancient motif that I feel you’ll find creative how you can modernize without dictation. However, the best way you submit the photos shall be key to feasible judging.

So for the judged/showcased product, send a 1000-pixel-wide shot with both photos combined. For our wallpaper photos, split them into the two original shots so that we are able to upload them separately on flickr. In other words, you’ll be sending us THREE total photos. A smaller combined diptych. Then the two components in wallpaper dimensions.

The Rules – READ THESE

1. Submissions should be your personal.
2. Photos must be taken the week of the contest.
3. Explain, briefly, the equipment, settings, technique and story behind shot.
4. Email submissions to contests@gizmodo.com, not me.
5. Include 1000px wide image (250KB or less) AND two 2560x1600ish sized in email.
6. One submission per person.
7. Use the perfect SUBJECT line on your email (more info on that below)

Send your best photo by Monday, August 16th at 7AM Eastern to contests@gizmodo.com with ” Diptych” inside the subject line. Save your files as JPGs, and use a FirstnameLastnameDiptych.jpg (1000px wide) and FirstnameLastnameDiptychWallpaper1.jpg and FirstnameLastnameDiptychWallpaper2.jpg (2560px wide) naming conventions. Include your shooting summary (camera, lens, ISO, etc) inside the body of the email at the side of a story of the shot in a couple of sentences. And don’t skip this story part because it’s often one of the most enjoyable part for us all beyond the shot itself!

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