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Want to start the new year with a free tutorial from Fstoppers? All you have to do is help us choose our Photographer of the Year!
In 2018, we featured a photographer from our community each month, and now, we need you to help us choose the Photographer of the Year! To be entered to win a free Fstoppers tutorial, you simply need to choose your favorite photographer from the list here, vote in the poll at the bottom, and comment with what Fstoppers tutorial you would love to win and why! Be sure to both vote and comment to be entered. Voting closes January 8 at 11:59 P.M. EST.
Note: there is some nudity in the images below.
January: Josh Borup
February: Rebecca Millen
March: Lilia Alvarado
April: Jan Gonzales
May: Rebeca Saray
June: Benedict Eric
July: Grayson Lauffenburger
August: Saulius Kerikas
September: Grace Almera
October: Naoki Fujihara
November: Alexander Khokhlov
December: Elke Vogelsang
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Photographer of the Month Awards for 2018
Beginning in January, we'll be selecting a photographer of the month. Each month, we'll cull the best of the most recent photos in the community and select our favorite, featuring that photographer's work. At the end of the year, we'll select an overall winner from the 12 monthly winners, who will win a tutorial of their choice from the Fstoppers store. To qualify each month, you simply must have uploaded an image to your portfolio in the past 30 days. So, get out there, post some photos, and check out the work of the talented Fstoppers community! We're pleased to have you here.
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Naoki Fujihara has my vote for a shot at "Perfecting the Headshot"
Lilia Alvarado has my vote, for a shot at "Perfecting the Heashot"
Naoki Fujihara for me as well for "Photographing the world 4"!
Grayson Lauffenburger has my vote for ''Clay Cook's Fashion and Editorial Portrait Photography''
Josh Borup has my vote for a shot at "Intro to Lightroom: The Ultimate Crash Course" for more practise
Elke Vogelsang made some of the best photos I have seen this year. Last year, I guess.
Saulius Kerikas has my vote, for "The Hero Shot"
Not much from the landscape genre :-)
Grace Almera has my vote and i want "Joey Wright: Swimwear Photography - Lighting, Posing, and Retouching"
I would love to win Peter Hurley: Perfecting the Headshot. I need to leave my thankless job in a soul-sucking cube farm (back office operations at an insurance company) before I turn 50, and that gives me a couple years to learn all I can about taking headshots and the headshot business. Peter's teaching style is easy to understand and will most certainly help me achieve my goals.
I chose Naoki Fujihara as my vote. I'm interested in "Fstoppers Intro to Lightroom: The Ultimate Crash Course" because the only part of lightroom I know how to use is presets....
Naoki Fujihara has my vote for a shot at Making Real Money
Jan Gonzales has my vote for “Intro to Video: A Photographer's Guide to Filmmaking”
Elle Vogelsang has my vote for “Peter Hurley: Perfecting the Headshot”! Why that tutorial? I really want to get better at shooting portraits. Thanks!
My vote for Naoki Fujihara, for "Perfecting The Headshot"
Voted for Saulius Kerikas and will be glad to win advanced landscape tutorial
Photographing the world 1 as I find lots in common with Elia style of shooting and would love to master it
Naoki Fujihara, but not interested in any of the tutorials.
Lilia Alvarado has my vote for “Perfecting the Headshot”. Bartu
Naoki Fujihara has my vote. For choice of prize, Photographing The World 2. I've really been enjoying the Behind The Scenes for all of them. PTW 2 is probably most appropriate because I'm moving to Australia temporarily and what better place to learn cityscapes and astrophotography. Kinda interested in seeing if the processing techniques can carry over to Darktable.
For me it is Grayson Lauffenburger.
I would li,ke to win "Making Real Money" with Monte Isom. As the business side as not covered as often as e.g. a lighting tutorial I would like to win this tutorial. I could definetly learn a lot from it!
Benedict Eric has my vote and I'd like to have Photographing the World 4!
Superb photography from every artist, but Elke Vogelsang has my vote for eye catching originality! Looking forward to pearls from Elia in Photographing the World 4.
I chose Naoki Fujihara as my vote!! I'm interested in "Photographing The World 1: Landscape Photography and Post-Processing with Elia Locardi" Happy New Year and great shots guys :)
Lilia Alvarado has my vote, I would like to have the "Photographing the World 1: Intro to Landscapes". I'm just starting out with photography and that course fits perfectly with what I wanna do as a photographer.
Jan Gonzales has my vote for a shot at "Making Real Money: The Business of Commercial Photography"
My favourite photographer of the year is Lilia Alvarado. If I am chosen as a winner in this poll, my Fstoppers Tutorial of choice would be "Mike Kelley´s Where Art Meets Architecture 1". Thanks and have a good day.
I wonder why one of us regular photo people can't be on the list for Photographer of the year.....Naoki has my vote as well.
Elke Vogelsang Wins my vote, her creativity with the dogs and the quality of the images prove her skills are above ordinary.
I would like the Shooting the World 4: Advanced Landscapes video series. Elia explains things well and he would help take me to the next level.
My vote is for Lilia Alvarado, for a shot at "Photographing the World 4".
I voted for Lilia Alvarado and I’d love to win Peter Hurley’s Perfecting the Headshot.
Thanks!
Rebecca Millen has my vote for a shot at "Making Real Money: The Business of Commercial Photography" because the business side of photography is something I have foolishly over looked and undervalued while learning photography D: Also Rebecca's work is just plain awesome.
From the abovementioned, Naoki Fujihara easily for his brilliant Black & White architecture shots.
Wonderful work.
Tutorial I'd like to win is Elia Locardi's "Photographing the World 4".
Happy New year everybody!
Rebecca Saray has my vote, for "The Hero Shot"
Same and same hahaha.
Naoki Fujihara has my vote for a shot at "Mike Kelly's Where Art Meets Architecture"
Lilia Alvarado has my vote for a shot at "The Hero Shot: How To Light And Composite Product Photography". Want to learn how to make products look good in photos.
Elke Vogelsang for a shot at "Photographing the World 4".
They are all so impressive, but, Jan Gonzales has my vote for “Photographing the World.” Jan’s photos are so well thought out and executed. Beautiful use of color, light, composition and editing. I just love these photos. Congratulations to all the monthly winners. Well done.
Naoki Fujihara for me. Just brilliant. Probably Photographing the World 2 because that's where I spend most of my time and therefore where I need to improve the most
I would like Photographing the World 4. Living in Colorado, I have many opportunities for great landscape images.
Grace Almera for me and Peter Hurley, illuminating the face
I vote for Rebecca Millen. Not interested in the tutorials though.
I'll take yours.
This is incredibly difficult! I've narrowed it down to Grayson, Jan, and Josh for my vote, but even that took too long.
Grayson Lauffenburger has my vote for ''Clay Cook's Fashion and Editorial Portrait Photography''
Naoki Fujihara
All the pictures are great and I like Naoki Fujihara's style, but my vote goes to Lilia Alvarado for her evocative pictures.
I want to start a professional photo career when I retire from my daytime job and would go for "The Hero Shot: How To Light And Composite Product Photography" tutorial as I at least have a chance to not mess it up completely as opposed to wedding photography, which was my original thought.
Naoki Fujihara has my vote, land(city)scape photographyin an aesthetic, beautiful and new way. Mayabe 'Photographing the world 4'
Elke, for a chance of Mike Kelley's Where Art Meets Architecture 2