http://www.gizmodo.co.uk Sat, 25 May 2013 14:00:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/shooting-challenge-17-the-best-of-your-worst/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/shooting-challenge-17-the-best-of-your-worst/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 12:00:28 +0000 Martin Snelling http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=166068 Did you miss me? I know one of you did… Well, I’m back after a short holiday (didn’t go anywhere, thanks for asking) and I’ve decided to kick things off with a Shooting Challenge a bit different from ‘normal’. Every person that’s ever picked up a camera will have shot the odd duffer at some [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/shooting-challenge-17-the-best-of-your-worst/feed/ 14 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/shooting-challenge-16-the-winner-is-2/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/shooting-challenge-16-the-winner-is-2/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 14:00:50 +0000 Guest Editor Agnes Thor http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=164137 Asking you to capture summer sun was a tough request given the weather doesn’t always match up to what you expect of a season, but a score of readers used a spot of creativity in their quest to win some summery prizes from Rekorderlig. As ever, there can only be one winner, however… Using the [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/shooting-challenge-16-the-winner-is-2/feed/ 14 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/reminder-klaxon-get-your-shots-in-and-nab-a-barrel-of-rekorderlig-and-asos-goodies/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/reminder-klaxon-get-your-shots-in-and-nab-a-barrel-of-rekorderlig-and-asos-goodies/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 15:15:50 +0000 Kat Hannaford http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=164116 Never have we had a more appealing prize for our fortnightly Shooting Challenge. Simply snap a photo of some summer sun (if you can find some!) and grab your chance to win a case of passionfruit Rekorderlig cider; £300 of ASOS vouchers, and a Lomography Diana Mini camera. 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To help you guys make the most of the arrival of British summertime, Rekorderlig has collaborated with photographer and Beautifully Swedish Collective member Agnes Thor and are inviting you to join them in celebrating the sun.   [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/shooting-challenge-17-summer-sun/feed/ 19 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/shooting-challenge-16-the-winner-is/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/shooting-challenge-16-the-winner-is/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:00:37 +0000 Martin Snelling http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=158665 In the most recent Gizmodo UK Shooting Challenge I set you the task of capturing park life, using the lyrics to popular beat combo Blur’s top 10 hit Parklife as inspiration. Some of you took the opportunity to step away from your screens, go out into the spring sunshine armed with all manner of photographic [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/shooting-challenge-16-the-winner-is/feed/ 5 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/reminder-klaxon-get-your-shots-in-and-nab-a-wonderfully-cultured-poster-while-youre-at-it/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/reminder-klaxon-get-your-shots-in-and-nab-a-wonderfully-cultured-poster-while-youre-at-it/#comments Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:45:29 +0000 Chris Mills http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=157489 It’s almost the weekend, and rather than vegitating in a Minecraft-constructed park this time around, how about you get yourself and your phone camera down to a park, take some photos and submit them into our shooting challenge? They don’t even have to be creepshots. Or good, for that matter. You’ve only got till Monday [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/reminder-klaxon-get-your-shots-in-and-nab-a-wonderfully-cultured-poster-while-youre-at-it/feed/ 9 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/shooting-challenge-16-park-life/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/shooting-challenge-16-park-life/#comments Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:00:48 +0000 Martin Snelling http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=154874 I spent absolutely effing ages thinking of a suitable challenge for this week; I’ve a little black book with ideas, but I just wasn’t ‘feeling’ any of them. So to the bookshelf I went; flicked through some dusty old tomes and still couldn’t make my mind up. So returned to the little black book and [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/shooting-challenge-16-park-life/feed/ 10 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/shooting-challenge-15-the-winner-is/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/shooting-challenge-15-the-winner-is/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:00:18 +0000 Martin Snelling http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=153820 Recently, Gizmodo UK celebrated the dreamers, the unknowns and the unsung heroes that many of us have never heard of. For the last Shooting Challenge we tasked you with shooting the heart and soul of where you live in the style of relatively unknown (until recently) amateur street photographer Vivian Maier. We also gave you [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/shooting-challenge-15-the-winner-is/feed/ 12 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/reminder-klaxon-get-your-entries-in-for-the-shooting-challenge-and-bag-yourself-a-canon/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/reminder-klaxon-get-your-entries-in-for-the-shooting-challenge-and-bag-yourself-a-canon/#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:15:01 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=152656 What are you up to this weekend? Watching TV? Going to the cinema? Well forget all that. Get your entries into our latest shooting challenge, Street Photography, and win yourself a shiny new Canon PowerShot S110 for your efforts. You have until Monday, March 25th, 6pm to get em in, so hurry up and get [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/reminder-klaxon-get-your-entries-in-for-the-shooting-challenge-and-bag-yourself-a-canon/feed/ 8 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/shooting-challenge-15-street-photography/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/shooting-challenge-15-street-photography/#comments Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:00:55 +0000 Martin Snelling http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=148793 This week Gizmodo UK is celebrating the dreamers; the unsung heroes that many of us have never heard of. These are the people that work tirelessly for their art with little or no recognition in their lifetime. Not wishing to deviate from this theme, it didn’t take me long (about 30 seconds) to think of [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/shooting-challenge-15-street-photography/feed/ 28 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/shooting-challenge-14-the-winner-is/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/shooting-challenge-14-the-winner-is/#comments Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:00:57 +0000 Martin Snelling http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=148020 In the last Shooting Challenge, you were tasked with capturing nature taking back the land. Many of you jumped at the opportunity to capture the world around you given the shorter than usual time with which to snap and submit your entries. There were so many great photos this week and picking a winner was [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/shooting-challenge-14-the-winner-is/feed/ 20 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/shooting-challenge-14-urban-nature/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/shooting-challenge-14-urban-nature/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:00:45 +0000 Martin Snelling http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=146438 As the human populace continues to grow, the need for houses, buildings and other man-made structures grows too. This growth though comes at a cost: the reduction of our green and pleasant land, with natural jungles being pushed out in favour of concrete ones. However, all is not lost just yet; nature is fighting back [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/shooting-challenge-14-urban-nature/feed/ 15 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/shooting-challenge-13-results/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/shooting-challenge-13-results/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:00:17 +0000 Martin Snelling http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=144571 The time has come for me to once again reveal the winner, or in the case of this week’s result, the winners of the most recent Shooting Challenge. Originally, the plan was for me to pick one overall winner, but I was so impressed with two entrants — one shot on a camera, the other [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/shooting-challenge-13-results/feed/ 12 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/shooting-challenge-13-natural-light/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/shooting-challenge-13-natural-light/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:00:23 +0000 Martin Snelling http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=141051 The postcard: before the Internet and Facebook, it was the main way people communicated to those back home that they were NOT having a jolly good time and that they wished recipient was there instead of them. Today, the humble postcard has been resigned to the tacky tourist shops and the only people buying them [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/shooting-challenge-13-natural-light/feed/ 13 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/shooting-challenge-12-the-winner-is/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/shooting-challenge-12-the-winner-is/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:00:04 +0000 Martin Snelling http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=137622 While the snowy weather kept many of you entertained this past week, some of you took the challenge baton and ran with it. Boy did you run with it; making the job of picking a winner particularly challenging. On the surface, the brief was simple; take a ‘streetscape’ self-portrait in the style of celebrated American [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/shooting-challenge-12-the-winner-is/feed/ 46 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/reminder-klaxon-get-your-entries-in-for-the-shooting-challenge-5/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/reminder-klaxon-get-your-entries-in-for-the-shooting-challenge-5/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:45:01 +0000 Chris Mills http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=136509 What could possibly be more fun than playing in the snow? Taking shameless selfies of yourself playing in the snow, that’s what. Added bonus: if you do manage to get some good selfies (they don’t even have to be in the snow) you could win this week’s Shooting Challenge, and then your life would be complete. [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/reminder-klaxon-get-your-entries-in-for-the-shooting-challenge-5/feed/ 1 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/shooting-challenge-12-self-portraits-in-a-streetscape/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/shooting-challenge-12-self-portraits-in-a-streetscape/#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:00:10 +0000 Martin Snelling http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=133754 The good old selfie; outside of photos of food, they’re the staple diet of every teenager/wannabe Instagram/Facebook photo feed around the globe. I’ve had a hankering to do a Shooting Challenge on this topic for some time, but wanted to do more than just the usual ‘take a photo of yourself without pulling a duckface’ [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/shooting-challenge-12-self-portraits-in-a-streetscape/feed/ 20 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/shooting-challenge-11-christmas-winners/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/shooting-challenge-11-christmas-winners/#comments Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:00:40 +0000 Martin Snelling http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=131432 With Christmas and 2012 well and truly behind us, we welcome 2013 with the results of our most recent Shooting Challenge, the subject of which was simply ‘Christmas’. Picking the winners of this challenge was a hell of a lot easier than the last challenge as only three of you took time to send your [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/shooting-challenge-11-christmas-winners/feed/ 4 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/shooting-challenge-11-chrisssstttmmaaasss/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/shooting-challenge-11-chrisssstttmmaaasss/#comments Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:00:24 +0000 Martin Snelling http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=129204 With the festive season clearly upon us, I could think of nothing better than doing a festive-themed Shooting Challenge for you to do over the next week and a bit. Actually, that’s a lie; I could think of a better theme, but I needed to bang this challenge out pretty quickly. Let’s get straight to [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/shooting-challenge-11-chrisssstttmmaaasss/feed/ 16 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/shooting-challenge-10-results-mobile-photography/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/shooting-challenge-10-results-mobile-photography/#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:00:06 +0000 Martin Snelling http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=127396 Last week’s Shooting Challenge was all about the camera in your pocket: the mobile phone. The brief was simple and gave you masses of creative freedom — shoot an image on your mobile phone and if you so wish to, edit it using one (or many) of the apps available for your camera phone of [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/shooting-challenge-10-results-mobile-photography/feed/ 27