The right Shooting Challenges of the Year [Bestof2010]

This was an outstanding year of Shooting Challenges. Your submissions were as beautiful as they were plentiful. Investigate most of the best user-submitted images of 2010.

1. 30 Impossible Scenes That truly Happened
The photos that follow are impossible. But they actually happened. The entries for this week’s Shooting Challenge are composites, stacking subjects from a similar place at different moments in time. The consequences will bend your brain within the best ways.



2. 183 Heavenly HDR Wallpapers
There’s no going wrong with HDR photography . At its most sensitive, the technique makes it possible for color/tone gradients rarely appreciated by anything but the naked eye. At its most aggressive, HDR’s a hyperreal spectacle. This week’s Shooting Challenge celebrates both schools.



3. 30 Shamelessly Stolen Photographs
Some might call it plagiarism, but the knock-off is an art form all its own. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, Gizmodo’s readers assembled to replicate or parody a number of the most iconic photographs in history. (Light NSFW content follows.)



4. 101 Photos Concerned about the Lens Detached
Take your DSLR in one hand. Unscrew the lens with the alternative. Tilt the lens faraway from the camera body-even perhaps flip the optics backwards. And take photos that you just never imagined you might want to without expensive upgrades.



5. 45 Photos From Clever, Sometimes Unbelievable Perspectives
It’s the view from the last drops of your water bottle. And listed below are 44 more brilliantly conceptualized photos from this week’s Shooting Challenge.



6. 264 Stupendous Spring Wallpapers
In this week’s Shooting Challenge, 264 photos submitted by our readers capture everything wonderful about spring. Take a while to compare them all out-it’s a real treat. This can be the best possible group of entries yet.



7. 77 Sensationally Staged Scenes
Some pictures capture a moment. Others capture a story. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, I asked you to stage a scene. Your results were sometimes funny, sometimes beautiful, sometimes sad and always worthwhile.



8. 116 Incredible Wallpapers By You
For this week’s Shooting Challenge, I asked you to shoot whatever you wanted. As the 116 photos that follow prove, this was an awesome decision.



9. 59 Fiercely Focus Stacked Photos
For 100+ years, any given photo had a single prime focus. But the implications of this week’s Shooting Challenge combine multiple points of focus to create images never seen before.



10. 171 Absolutely Abstract Wallpapers
What is abstract photography? We could debate the nuances of the definition all day-as many do. Nonetheless it’s much more fun to simply observe the mind-bending pictures from this week’s Shooting Challenge, isn’t it?



Been under a rock? See what else happened this year in our Best of 2010 series.

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