61 Moments Captured in a Single Attempt

I love you guy cable . I give you the hard challenge ever — take a great photograph with only one shot — and you opt very bad , high-pitched margin for mistake techniques and subjects . The best submission ? Screw ups … that create something circumstantially wonderful .

WINNER and Lead Shot – Spring Dip

I was completely ready for this one . I was going to my sister ’s wedding party in Utah and I knew there would be flock of opportunities to take lots of large one - sentence photos there . The 24-hour interval before the hymeneals , we go to Thanksgiving Point in Lehi , UT which is a large family orient complex which include museums , an amphitheatre , and garden , among other thing . We decide to spend some time there and see what it was all about . When we come it was hoodwink very lightly and the wind was blowing a bit , so it was rather cold . We go to the gardens because they are currently having their Tulip Festival . After we pay for entrance money and devote for the golf cart , the snow had started get big . They gave us a blanket to practice . I hopped on the back , which faced rearward , with my aunt while my daddy and uncle consider the front . The combination of drive , the lead , and the Charles Percy Snow made it utterly unbearable . We ventured off as far as we could go and I was snapping delineation as we went . We stopped for a second by this statue and I take this photo . After survey it , inherent aptitude made me want to take another depiction because there ’s a large , out of focus snowflake right in front of the girl , but call back this contest I decide not to and that I ’d apply this one . The vivid spring colour of the flowers against the dull grey snow-clad background is very particular , not to name the statue is of a girlfriend in a dress who look like she ’s quick to dip into the watercourse while it ’s snowing . This was read with my Canon T2i with a Sigma 28 millimeter crystalline lens in Shutter Priority mood at 1/500 , f/4 , ISO 200 .

– Evan Hughes

Serendipitous Wildfire

Down here in the Nogales , Arizona , area we have had a wild fire to the west of Nogales for the last 10 Clarence Shepard Day Jr. or so . I was take photos of thesmoke near the office . in any case , the smoke was bollix up across the City , shit the visibility really pitiful . I remembered I had lately gotten an infrared filter for my Canon T2i a month earlier , and thought I would prove the filter to see if I could see through the fume a little . So I put the filter on , forgetting that the auto - focus will not work out with the IR Filter in place . I also forgot to reset the color setting to black and white , leaving it in the normal vividness outer space . I guessed at the time of photo I would need to get something . Having play with IR Photography since getting the filter , I tried 15 second gear . Put the photographic camera on my tripod . Aimed towards the fervor , and hit the button . The result ? Well , interms of what I was aiming for , it was a complete disastor . However , it is still a rather fascinating , though more as abstract fine art .

– John Hays

Light Leak

Saw a wooden carving of a salmon near a local coffee shop and imagine it might be interesting . The light making water was totally unwilled . When I go to develop my plastic film ( being the absolute amateur that I am ) I somehow messed up the manual cinema rewind so the cinema would n’t go back into the original canister . I of class had to break spread out the back just a smidgen to check that I had really over - wound it , which is when I risked ruin all my photos . I ’m glad this one survived ! Shot with a Nikon F3 . Fujifilm 200 ISO 35 mm moving picture . F3.5 and had to use auto for shutter velocity because I never buck with pic and I did n’t require to ruin my ‘ one shooter ’ .

– Samuel Oh

Nature’s One-Shot

hoto was take while camping on my friend down up in Johnson VT , had to wait until the day after I found them so I could take the movie in the shortsighted window when the Sunday glint through the trees and lit up the small puddle they were in . Shot with a Canon EOS Rebel T2i , on f/2.8 , 1/200 , and ISO-100 .

– Ben Ozug

Mad Light Painting Skills

I used my guitar and a mini mag light for this low-cal picture . I make out picture taking and I love playing my guitar , though I ’m not a professional at either , but this kinda looked like an interesting subject to take a picture of . I have been working on my light painting skills for a while and this competition seemed like a good opportunity to actually see how proficient I am . When I first read the competition detail this afternoon , while sitting through a ho-hum political skill public lecture , I did n’t give much attention to it because I normally do n’t participate in photography contests . But on my frustrating boot hour drive back home , I suddenly realise my television camera ’s costs and its inversely proportional relationship to how much I utilize it . Then all that was leave to do was to make an irrational decision – take a moving-picture show of the first thing I find lie on my bed – and I guess by now you plausibly jazz what it was . I used a Canon 7D with 28 - 135 IS USM outfit lens of the eye to take this picture show . Camera configurations : ISO 200 , 0ev , f/22 , 46 second shutter length , auto clean balance , multi - metering .

– Aayush Agrawal

Dream Spark

I am presently visiting some champion from out of state and when I am with these friends we ordinarily have a band of crazy playfulness . I was standing in the parking lot of their apartment complex when I get a call from another Quaker In the area , he then asks me if I have my photographic camera and as always I now narrate him yes , I do have it . He then severalize me to find a metal hanger , straighten it out and conform to in the playing field behind the flat . Without reluctance or question I instantly get my camera ready , round up the metallic element hanger and run out there . Once we have both touch - up in the field he bigins to tell me about this site he move to by means of “ Stumbleupon.com ” and it was all potential by sticking steel wool to a metal hanger , and using your arm to then swing it around your head to make about 25 - 30 groundwork of sparks . I then prepared the camera using his car as the tripod along with the case for my CF placard , got the configurations I wanted , focused and allow it rip .

The outcome of this exposure could not have been any better in my opinion , I was so felicitous that he had brought this melodic theme to me and even more felicitous that the photo competition this workweek is fundamentally a one scene barren - for - all ! Thanks for the challenge , it was great ! Canon EOS 20D , 28x70 mm Canon L , ISO : 100 , F/22 , picture : 6s

– George Westlake

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Moon Jellies

Good’ol Aurelias ( Sun Myung Moon jelly ) , I have had a few running play - ins with them while snorkel diving or dive . So when I saw the showing for the first time in the Houston Zoo with the black light I was enthralled to say the least . I never really got around to shoot them … with the limelight on the tank and the crowds of parents and their small fry bumping into me there was no direction I would ever attempt that low light shot . Then I show a article in photography magazine where they said not to be afraid to set up your gear . So with my monopod in bridge player I tried … I direct for the part of tank with the least amount of glare and focused to the good of my ability , pushed my ISO to 2000 and shot . The one thing that amazed me … the infinite people give you when you got a DSLR mount up a monopod ( in my case ) . You try that shot control your photographic camera and no one notices you or cares that you are adopt a word picture . But mount it and you got like a three foot spoke around you ! Thanks for the challenge . I am seriously looking ahead to future unity ! Canon 60D , Tameron 75 - 300 mm @ F5.6 , Iso : 2000

– Edmundo Carreon

Grandpa

So my Grandfather had moved into our house recently because my Grandmother had passed away . He s a proud valet de chambre , who hold out all his life in India , raising my father as well as his 3 other siblings . I have never really saw a side of him where he seemed emotionally vunerable , until he follow to our house in the US . I get wind him stand by the window looking out as if he was very lost and feel very singular from everyone , so I took my chance to capture it . This was snap on a iPhone 4 using its HDR mode . Though the original picture was not that great , I knew I could heighten the humor with some colouration rectification and a dour border to raise the spacial context of the photo . shoot on iPhone 4 ( HDR ) .

– Krishna Yalla

Thanks to everyone who took part in this challenge — it submit a lot to put work out there that you might otherwise consider a bit flawed . But honestly , I love the errors in some of these paradigm . They ’re full of personality that breaks ranks from the stock photography we so often emulate . Enjoy all the photos below and the wallpaper - sized nip onflickr .

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