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Announcing The Winner And Runners-Up To The Fstoppers Portrait POTD Contest!

Mike Kelley — Tue, 14 May 2013 23:03:40 +0000

After looking at all of the great submissions for our April POTD contest, it took a few weeks to narrow them all down and come up with commentary for what were some outstanding photos. Like I said in the original post, it was truly humbling to have people from all over the world send us their images to view and judge against others. It was great to see images from all over the world of various cultures and places, and I’m happy to announce that we’ve finally settled on our top portraits and the winner of the $100. [more]

UPDATED: Is World Press Photo Photoshopped?

Joseph Gamble — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:34:36 +0000

Photojournalists prepping images for competitions often walk a fine line between the enhancement of a photograph and outright alteration. Swedish photojournalist Paul Hansen, winner of the 2012 World Press Photo Award, has denied that his winning image of two dead Palestinian children in a funeral procession, is a forgery. A forensic image analyst named Neal Krawetz came forward on Monday with an allegation that the image is a composite, an egregious manipulation that may invalidate the award. Yesterday, World Press Photo issued a statement verifying the authenticity of the image. [more]

Personal Project to POYi: Bob Croslin’s “Grounded”

Joseph Gamble — Tue, 07 May 2013 14:18:01 +0000

You submit your assignment images each year as a staff photojournalist at a major newspaper and never place in the prestigious Picture of the Year International competition. Then, years later as a freelance photographer, you win first place for a body of work that was undertaken solely as a personal venture. This is the story of Bob Croslin’s self-assigned “Grounded,” a portrait project of injured birds undergoing rehabilitation at a sanctuary in western Florida. [more]

It’s A Wrap! Check Out All Of The Submissions From Our April POTD Contest!

Mike Kelley — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:03:14 +0000

We received over 1000 submissions from our readers to our new POTD contest, and yes, we looked at every single one of them. There were some brilliant entries and it was incredibly tough to select the top 30 for the month of April, but they’ve all been chosen, and you can check out the gallery here [more]

SquareSpace Featured Image Contest: Vote For Your Favorite

Jaron Schneider — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:38:33 +0000

Two weeks ago we asked you to submit your best “Featured Image” and the top three submissions would win a year of SquareSpace. We wanted to see what images you would use to entice visitors to your website. We got hundreds of entries, but after careful deliberation we narrowed them down to the top ten images we thought really brought a “pow” to the party. Now we leave it in your hands: vote for your favorite! [more]

Fstoppers Announces Another Picture Of The Day Contest! Win $100 For Your POTD

Mike Kelley — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 03:37:36 +0000

Owing to the success of our April POTD Contest, where we received over 1000 awesome submissions from readers all over the world, we are happy to now announce the contest for the month of May. In order to have a shot at a gift certificate worth $100 to B&H Photo & Video, be sure to check out the full post for details about how to submit and what to submit.
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Win over $400 in Promote Control [Digital SLR Camera Remote Control] + Accessories!

Jaron Schneider — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:00:42 +0000

WINNER: Bob Mishkin! Be a winner yourself by using the promotional code “FSTOPPERS” at www.promotesystems.com and get 10% off your entire purchase when buying a Promote Control for the next 2 weeks! [more]

LAST CHANCE: Submit Your Best “Featured Image” and Win a Year of SquareSpace

Jaron Schneider — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:00:11 +0000

ENDS TOMORROW: We have teamed up with our friends at SquareSpace to give away three one year subscriptions to their awesome service. That means three of you are going to win brand new websites, and all you have to do is show us what you would use as your website lead image. [more]

Win A Free Copy Of Peter Hurley’s The Art Behind The Headshot!

Lauren Jonas — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:00:18 +0000

We’ve teamed up with the guys over at Viewbug to give one lucky person a free copy of Peter Hurley’s The Art Behind The Headshot. We’re looking for the best examples of images showing photographers doing what they do. The winner receives a copy of the instructional DVD by renowned photographer Peter Hurley plus a feature in both the Fstoppers and Viewbug blogs. [more]

Fstoppers Announces The POTD Contest: Enter Your Shot To Win A $100 Gift Certificate to B&H

Mike Kelley — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:00:51 +0000

Over the past few months, I’ve been looking at how we can improve our POTD feature to make it more, well, awesome. For a while now, we’ve been taking your submissions and combing through them to find some interesting shots. But we’re going to change that up a bit. We’re going to turn it into a contest format for a month, and the best shot takes home $100 at B&H for doing nothing more than sending us an image. [more]