On the scale of awesomeness, winning DLSR ranks up there at about ten thousand Awesome Points.
As luck would have it, we have three Nikon D3000s and we want you to have one. Just ‘cuz! We don’t need a reason!
But you’ll need to move fast — this giveaway is lightning-fast, and we’re picking winners at end-of-day on Monday, November 23rd. (Coincidentally, the birthday of Miley Cyrus. Just FYI, in case you had plans.)
Fortunately it’s quick, easy, and free to enter — and you can submit as many entries as you want!
Consult our handy checklist below to start racking up entries and you’ll soon be on the road to Winsville, population: you.
FourFiveSix and a Half Fabulous Ways to Win a Nikon D3000
Pay a friendly visit to our friends at for one more entry — let ‘em know how you’ll use a Photojojo tutorial or fun toy over Thanksgiving and you’ll get an additional entry.
Do you know any magical charms or incantations? We’re not saying it’ll help, but it couldn’t hurt to request that your friendly neighborhood luckdragon intervene on your behalf. You do have a luckdragon, don’t you? They’re lucky, you know.
Whew! That’s a lot of entering. Maybe you should go lie down for a bit. And then wake up and enter some more!
ps: This should go without saying, obvs, but please don’t spam! If your entries are spammy — as in, this is the only thing you’ve ever Tweeted about — we don’t count them. That’s no fun!
We got our hands on something special (and a tad devious) …
A camera shaped multi-directional squirt gun? Oh yes. We’re putting one in every shop order from now until Halloween.
Cute and tiny cameras are abundant these days, so you should have no problem innocently passing the squirt cam as a real deal.
Ask your most gullible (and forgiving) pal to “pose” for your “really cool new camera.” After pressing the trigger, you’ll have one soggy subject. Muahahaha hah! ha … ha!
The challenge is all about light painting, a really fun technique for low-light, long-exposure photography. We’ve got a tutorial that gives you all the tips and tricks in our amazing book(!) written by our pal Matt Nuzzaco, but for those of you who don’t have it yet, here’s a condensed version to get you started.
What you’ll need:
Darkness
A camera with long-exposure capability (on some point and shoots, “Night Mode” will work.
A Tripod
Light! (flashlights, glow sticks, sparklers, laser pointers, LEDs, anything that makes light)
How to do it:
First things first, this works best at night, because you want as much of the background noise and light to be gone, so only the light you’re drawing with is visible.
Camera Settings
Set up your camera on a tripod, zoom out as much as possible, set your ISO as low as possible (50 or 100) and clamp down your aperture as tight as you can (f22), all of this will limit the amount of light that interferes with your painting. You’ll also want to focus in on an object near where you’ll be standing, then set your camera to manual focus.
Test shot
Now set your camera to do a 5 second exposure, click the shutter, than run about 5 feet in front of your camera and draw your name in the air with a flashlight while facing your lens. Check the exposure to see how it came out, and adjust your shutter time accordingly. (Note: Point and shoots that don’t let you pick a shutter speed may have a “Night Mode” that works for this.)
Now paint!
Once you’ve got the exposure down, it’s time to have fun! Experiment with different lights, draw shapes, or letters, use a flashlight to illuminate objects or people in the camera’s field of view, and get a friend to help you make bigger things. Have a blast!
We’ve been psyched by the amazing response to The Photojojo Book last week, and we can’t wait for you to get a copy.
So we’ve teamed up with our pals at Kodak to give you a bit more incentive… we’ll be giving away 10 cameras all this week — we’ve got 10 Kodak M381s with your name on ‘em.
Post a photo of yourself with the Photojojo Book to our Wall on Facebook, or the Photojojo Book Flickr group, or to Twitpic (include the words “@photojojo” in your tweet, so we see it!) Our two favorite photos (most creative/most fun) win cameras! Easy!
What would you do with your new camera? Tell us by twittering (include “@Photojojo book” in your tweet so we see it) or posting it to our Wall on Facebook. We’ll pick two camera winners: one at random, and one for most creative answer.
At some point today we’ll tweet out a message (be sure you’re following photojojo on twitter) and there will be two ways to win today’s camera:
Retweet our message ~or~
Be a *new* follower of Photojojo
We’ll pick a winner within 30 minutes, so you’ll need to be quick!
THURSDAY:
Today’s challenge: Tell us what camera feature or photo-related product you WISH existed. Most creative answer wins. You must use Twitter (include “http://bit.ly/pjjbook” in your tweet to make sure we see it!) or Our wall on Facebook to answer. (Thanks to shutterbugchick for the idea!)
Some of our faves from twitter:
Susan Vinskofski (via Facebook): I want a camera in my eyes so that I can just blink to take exactly what I see.
@intiwierenga: RT@photojojo: I TOTALLY wish there was something that could convey smells in photos, i’m addicted to food photog! http://bit.ly/pjjbook
Jeff Manes (via Facebook): It would be great if the camera could identify everyone in the photo. Sometimes I forget…
@stishw: @photojojo What about a DSLR combined with SLR so that you dont have to carry 2 cameras at once?!?! http://bit.ly/pjjbook
@vekaetges: @photojojo I dream with a camera that shows what people were talking at the moment, just like a comic book image. http://bit.ly/pjjbook
And the winner…
@cafegurl: @photojojo I wish a hovering camera existed so i could follow you around and record & snap pics at different views http://bit.ly/pjjbook
FRIDAY: Tell us what you love most about Photojojo!
Well, you ask for compliments, you’re gonna get compliments. THANK YOU SO MUCH everyone. We’re overwhelmed by all the amazing things everyone’s aid.
We wrote a book (and it’s awesome)! So all week long we’ve been giving away store stuffs to celebrate: Magnetic Photo Rope, Bottle Cap Tripods, Level Camera Cubes …
But on Friday 9/18 we’ll be jumping between Twitter AND Facebook to give out ten copies of our book!
Facebookers, head to our Photojojo on Facebook on Friday and look for the special wall post to share with friends.
… at the end of the day we’ll choose five book winners from each site.
Keep checking Twitter, Facebook, Uncut, and the newsletter for announcements. Next week we’ve got even more giveaways to lose your pants over (hint, one starts with “cam” and ends with “era”).
— to let you know how much i like your newsletters. 
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