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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 2019, 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: Liza Rock
February: Yechiel Orgel
March: Anna Pyhäjärvi
April: Erik Johansson
May: Giulia Valente
June: Aritz Atela
July: Dasha and Mari K.
August: Kevin Plovie
September: Barbara MacFerrin
October: Sasha Onyshchenko
November: Juhamatti Vahdersalo
December: Suvi Sievilä
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Photographer of the Month Awards for 2020
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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Stiff competition from all the featured photographers. I would love the perfectig he headshot tutorial with Peter Hurley to help me move along my goal of improving at portraiture.
I would like to win Perfecting the Headshot by Peter Hurley.
Liza Rock has my vote.
The Hero Shot.
great portfolios on these 12 photographers. amazing work! Kevin and Aritz are my favourites. my vote is cast. Good luck to all.
As for the Tutorial, i would like the first photographing the world with Elia Locardi. What i lack is actually post editting skills so this would be very welcome. Cheers
Thanks Pedro !!
This is so difficult to pick because all of those photographers have insane work! Think I'm going to go with April though. I really like the wild composites.
I definitely want Monte's tutorial and should totally be the winner because Lee is the best photographer ever, David's Atlas and the Sun is amazing and Patrick has inspired a new generation of moon boot wears around the globe.
Making Real Money, the Monte Isom tutorial, because I need to go from making pocket money to earning a living, even a meagre one would be great!
Lighting for Headshots and Portraits from Peter Hurley.
Still working on my lighting vision. More like stumbling!
Mastering macro photography looks like a cool tutorial I’d love to get
Fashion and Editorial Portrait Photography
Although my favorite genre is landscape / nature photography, I'm going with Barbara MacFerrin from this set of photographers. I love her subtle and painterly style, which is so soft and peaceful. Love your works, Barbara MacFerrin ! :)
As for tutorials - If I happen to win anything, I'd go with Photographing the World 4 with Elia Locardi. :)
Very talented photographers. Voted.
Peter Hurley's tutorials.. I want them all, but if i have to choose: perfecting the headshot
I chose Suvi Sievilä. Some new, unique photos that I really enjoyed. Perfecting the Headshot
Man this is hard. I like a lot of them.
I would like the Making Real Money The Business of Commercial PhotographyWith Monte Isom tutorial.
Some amazing photos here. I'd love to win the "Introduction to Video - A Photographer's Guide to Filmmaking" tutorial! Definitely an area for me with lots of room for improvement.
Very tough task of selecting the best among these awesome talents. As for tutorials - my choice is Where Art Meets Architecture 3 by Mike Kelley, just love the insights he is sharing and the coverage of all the extra things he is looking for when doing the shoots
What an amazing collection of work.
I would love the macro tutorial.
Erik Johansson gets my vote, but all are great photographers! If I am selected for the tutorial I would ask for a photographing the world! (any)
Love the passion in each and every shot. I'd like to perfect the Head Shot
Would love the Swimwear Photography by Joey Wright.
Voted. I would choose Perfecting the Head Shot. It is the one tutorial that would be the best help or me.
Aritz Atela, such a beautiful photos he developed this year! If I have to choose a tutorial, it would be
Perfecting the headshot by Peter Hurley
I'll choose the Tutorial later. :)
Loved the creativity of Erik Johanssen. I'd love to receive Illuminating the face - Lighting for Headshots and Portraits - Peter Hurley.
All great photos, being very new to Landscape and Editing, I would select Photographing the World 1. Since both topics are covered 8)
I really would like the "Making Real Money" with Monte. I still find pricing really hard and always struggle when my clients ask about them. Monte seem like someone I could listen to for hours aswell. It would be fun to see Erik win. I do not see Swedish photogaphers international very often so hoping for that to change. Anyways, amazing photographers as usual!
Some great photographs, here - I'd love to use the Macro Tutorial to expand my range in macro shooting.
Would love to win How to Become a Professional Commercial Wedding Photographer because it seems that there is always since comedy when Lee and Patrick are together!
Photographing the World 4 - I like Elia's style and find him very entertaining
Not easy to pick one of all the amazing photographers, so I've chosen based on the subject closest to mine.
I would love to be the owner of the "Photographing the World 4" tutorial.
All the entries are wonderful and make it hard to choose a favourite. I would love to add to my PTW collection with a chance to win tutorial #3.
I would like Photographing the World 1. Great photographers.
Amazing work for every single month, if I get the chance to win a tutorial would be Illuminating the face - Lighting for Headshots and Portraits - Peter Hurley.
Thanks in advance
The mastering macro photography tutorial would be great. I am interested in this genre but really struggle with it.
A ton of photographic talent represented here! I'd love to win "Making Real Money: The Business of Commercial Photography." Many thanks!
Erik Johansson has my vote! the amount of work and planning that goes into his shots are stunning! If I win the tutorial I would love to see Photographing the World 4!
I'd like Illuminating the Face with Peter Hurley. Being the family photographer, I'd really like to improve my portrait/flash photograph skills.
I would love to learn more portrait especially Headshots! "Perfecting the Headshot
With Peter Hurley"
Mastering macro photography course pls
Voted!! Would love the swimwear tutorial
Hero shot by Brian Rodgers Jr. Would be my choice! Tough competition, great artists to chose from congratulations to all of them.
I gave the vote serious consideration. While I am fascinated by some of the photos, or attracted to the models themselves, the work involved in getting the photo seemed to be something I wanted to take into account.
As for the tutorial? Why, Perfecting the Headshot, of course. I already have Peter's other tutorials, as well as Dylan Patrick's. So continuing on that way makes sense.
Awesome photographers. Would live to win the The Complete Capture One Editing Guide, since I've been using that recently and any better tricks or methods would be awesome.
You know what? Most comments I read on here (at the time of writing) are so.... negative. I mean, I'm a nobody. I'd love to learn. If you know how to do everything - good for you, not everyone does.
Anyway, I'd love to have a go at Fashion and Editorial Portrait Photography - why? To try something new, something that would be really difficult to learn on my own. So hey. Good luck to other photogs! (also, Juhamatti Vahdersalo? mind blowing!)
I would love to receive the The Hero Shot by Brian Rodgers Jr., simply to learn something new and to improve my skills.
Lighting for Headshots and Portraits
Aritz has some beautiful landscapes.