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Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT
How to Turn a Desktop Scanner Into a Camera
Got an old scanner kicking around? You can easily repurpose it for use as an
artistic and experimental digital camera using some black foam-core board, a
roll of light-proof tape and a cheap lens. Learn how in Wired.com's How-To Wiki.
 
Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Wired.com Photo Contest: Heat
This photo contest, Heat, is inspired by San Francisco's unexpected November heat wave. And since fall hasn't been shining so brightly on other cities, we figure the rest of the country could use some heating up as well.
As a special treat, Canon is sponsoring this photo contest. Enter to win a Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS.
Use the Reddit widget below to submit your best Heat photo and vote for your favorite among the other submissions. The 10 highest-ranked photos will appear in a gallery on the Wired.com homepage. Show us sweaty glasses of ice water, oasis mirages in the middle of a baking desert, and flaming foundries filled with molten metal. Make us sweat on the doorstep of winter as we face the months of rain and snow ahead.
The photo must be your own, and by submitting it you are giving us permission to use it on Wired.com and in Wired magazine. Please submit images that are relatively large, the ideal size being 800 to 1200 pixels or larger on the longest side. Please include a description of your photo, which may include exposure information, equipment used, etc.
We don't host the photos, so you'll have to upload it somewhere else and submit a link to it. If you're using Flickr, Picasa or another photo-sharing site to host your image, please provide a link to the image directly and not just to the photo page where it's displayed. Using an online photo service that requires that you log in will not work. If your photo doesn't show up, it's because the URL you have entered is incorrect. Check it and make sure it ends with the image file name (XXXXXX.jpg).
Please bookmark this page and check back periodically over the next two weeks to vote on new submissions!
Also, check out the winner's galleries from our previous contests:
Fall,
Holga, Red, Self-Portrait, Night, Macro, Transportation, and Black and White.
Vote on heat photos submitted by other readers.
Show entries that are: hot | new | top-rated. Submit your heat photo.
Submit your heat photo.
(No more than one every 30 minutes. No HTML allowed.)
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Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT
Top 10 Wired.com Music Photos, Decided by You
 : Conveying the excitement people feel about music in a still image can be like describing sight to the blind. The 10 reader-elected finalists of our music photo contest may not make you hear music, but they expertly capture a musical moment. Blair takes home the gold with his photo "The Horn Player" at left. Click through the gallery to see the contestants who were nipping at his heels.
Since we had so many great photos that we thought should've received more votes, and because we love to anger readers with our selections, we've also compiled a Wired.com Editor's Choice Music Photo Gallery.
Our next twice-monthly photo contest is Heat. It's cold outside this winter and we need to warm our feet by your photographic fire. Check out the contest page for more information.
Left:
The Horn Player
Submitted by Blair
Photographer's comment:
"Covent Garden, London.”
 : DreadHead
Submitted by Amaiia
Photographer's comment:
"Guitarist of the famous French ska band Fizcus live @ Seasplash Festival, Croatia."
 : Jeff Locke
Submitted by Christie Hemm
Photographer's comment:
”He's good.”
 : Fizcus
Submitted by Podi
Photographer's comment:
"French ska band Fizcus on concert
"13/1 sec, f/3.5, flash on, second curtain"
 : The Underbelly
Submitted by Elizabeth Kovach
Photographer's comment:
"Messing around with the organ."
 : On the Outside
Submitted by Ross Gilmore
Photographer's comment:
"Old busker plays his banjo, against a 14-foot-high security fence, at an outdoor rock concert."
 : Tickling Ivory
Submitted by Bob
Photographer's comment:
"Hands playing piano."
 : My Stepfather's Piano
Submitted by Tin Man
Photographer's comment:
"I'm no photographer, I'm a musician, and this is my art. My stepfather left me this piano when he died in 1998, and I use it to compose. Its sound is not great by traditional standards, but to me it is wonderful.”
 : Tandoori Tunes
Submitted by Joakim Lloyd Raboff
Photographer's comment:
”A musician sat down and played a tune while I tried to listen to a podcast on the beach in Goa, India."
 : Yaya
Submitted by amaiia
Photographer's comment:
"Jadranka Bastajic Yaya, lead singer of Croatian band Jinx.
"Canon EOS 350d, f/4.0, 1/200, 50mm"
 
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT
Top 10 Wired.com Music Photos, Decided by Us
 : Though Wired.com readers selected 10 excellent photos in our music photo contest, we here at the photo department like to fight for the underdog. Here are our 10 favorite submissions that we think deserved more attention.
Our next twice-monthly photo contest is Heat. It's cold outside this winter, and we need to warm our feet by your photographic fire. Check out the contest page for more information.
Left:
Arcade Fire Encore
Submitted by Ryan Muir
Photographer's comment:
"The Arcade Fire set up their in-crowd encore right in front of my face. Spotlights shining on them from a distance — thousands of people scattered around thinking the show was over. Took me by surprise as much as anybody else.... This was pretty much the most memorable concert-going experience of my life. So glad to have had my camera.”
 : Gospel Groove
Submitted by Anonymous
Photographer's comment:
"A group of young South Africans perform a special gospel set for me and a group of visitors to their school in the Cape Flats."
 : 1898 Piano
Submitted by Dan Snyder
Photographer's comment:
"In my backyard."
 : Stephen Malkmus of Pavement — Houston, 1999
Submitted by Scot Ferguson
Photographer's comment:
"Stephen Malkmus of Pavement — Houston, 1999, their last tour."
 : Adding to the Noise
Submitted by throughHislens
Photographer's comment:
"Music means a lot to me, so that's why it was saddening to see this on the ground. But, you can see this transition in music, in that the different mediums that make it up are slowly transitioning into something that was not available at the start. Bittersweet.”
 : Barefoot Rock
Submitted by Casey Moore
Photographer's comment:
"Land of Talk — SXSW 2008."
 : Bunny Surf
Submitted by M. Young
Photographer's comment:
"Taken at the Vans Warped Tour, Mansfield, Massachusetts, August 2008."
 : Achtung Accordion!
Submitted by Fritz Speilemann
Photographer's comment:
"Although far from my favorite instrument, this young dude played his instrument like a god!”
 : Drum
Submitted by Casey Cramer
Photographer's comment:
"Drum in empty prayer room in Hunder Gompa, Nubra Valley, Ladakh, India"
 : One-Man Band
Submitted by Elias
Photographer's comment:
"Took this photo in Bath, England. This man was playing on the sidewalk, with both a violin and a guitar simultaneously. He had hooked up the guitar to a foot pedal that played certain notes as he turned the crank."
 
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT
Wired.com Photo Contest: Music
Your assignment for this photo contest is both simple and difficult: music. Move beyond the band and concert cliches and show us what music means to you.
Use the Reddit widget below to submit your best music photo and vote for your favorite among the other submissions. The 10 highest-ranked photos will appear in a gallery on the Wired.com homepage. Show us your grandpa's old dusty stacks of shellac, the piano in the backyard overgrown with moss and ivy, an exotic minstrel in the heart of a Mediterranean bazaar. Deliver us to psychedelic synesthesia by making us hear your vivid photos with our eyes.
The photo must be your own, and by submitting it you are giving us permission to use it on Wired.com and in Wired magazine. Please submit images that are relatively large, the ideal size being 800 to 1200 pixels or larger on the longest side. Please include a description of your photo, which may include exposure information, equipment used, etc.
We don't host the photos, so you'll have to upload it somewhere else and submit a link to it. If you're using Flickr, Picasa or another photo-sharing site to host your image, please provide a link to the image directly and not just to the photo page where it's displayed. Using an online photo service that requires that you log in will not work. If your photo doesn't show up, it's because the URL you have entered is incorrect. Check it and make sure it ends with the image file name (XXXXXX.jpg).
Please bookmark this page and check back periodically over the next two weeks to vote on new submissions!
Also, check out the winner's galleries from our previous contests:
Fall,
Holga, Red, Self-Portrait, Night, Macro, Transportation, and Black and White.
Vote on music photos submitted by other readers.
Show entries that are: hot | new | top-rated. Submit your music photo.
Submit your music photo.
(No more than one every 30 minutes. No HTML allowed.)
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Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT
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