Win $1,000 In Our Architecture Photography Contest
Here are the winners of February's architecture photography contest.
First place:
Second Place:
Every other photographer whose work was featured in this video wins a free tutorial in the Fstoppers Store. Each winner has 30 days to claim their prizes by sending me a private message, let me know what you've won, or what tutorial you would like.
This is your last chance to get our architecture photography tutorial and our wedding photography tutorial on sale for the lowest prices ever.
Join our next photography contest at Fstoppers.com/Contests
For our next photography contest, we want to see your best architectural photos.
UPDATE: We are extending this contest until February 25th, and adding more prizes. We are also discounting our Architectural photography tutorial, Where Art Meets Architecture, With Mike Kelley, to its lowest price ever of just $75.
3rd-10th place wins any tutorial from the Fstoppers Store.
2nd place wins $500
1st place wins $1000
Prizes must be accepted by messaging Lee Morris within 30 days of the end of the contest.
1. Each contestant may submit up to three images
2. Images this month must be pictures of buildings, inside or out.
3. Each image submitted must include a description of the photograph. We want to know how it was taken, the lighting used, the gear used, and any post-processing you did to it. Images without a description will be disqualified.
4. Each photographer is only allowed to win one grand prize/year and one tutorial/year but they may still submit images to, and be featured in all 12 contests.
5. Everyone is encouraged to rate and comment on everyone's submitted photos but the highest-rated image will not necessarily win the grand prize.
Sun, 02/25/2024 - 12:00
This contest has ended.
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40 Comments
Interesting results. Seems like a lot of the chosen ones are landscape photos with a little bit of a building in the frame. Not nearly as focused on 'architecture' as I expected.
Wow! Nobody commented here...
Exactly, I sincerely wanted to be amazed by the results and then buy the freaking tutorial to expand my current skill set, but in my opinion, it may hurt my professional work if this is the standard.
I work with the largest team of Architectural Photographers in the world. It is a major media company with a massive QA team and gloabal reach, in many ways we set the bar for the industry and that's all I am going to say about that. Here's what feedback they would give me if I submitted these photos (please note I also entered this contest for kicks but knew none of my old freelance photos would do well, I wish I could use the stuff I have from work in DTLA, anyway here's what my QA team would say about these winners:
First place (Monument Valley Photo): "This is a great photo, but we need shots of the building not the landscape." Even if I drove 500 miles to get this shot, they would send me back out to retake this to capture more of the building and less of the landscape.
It's a great photo but in my opinion the architecture is not the subject, Monument Valley is.
Second place, this is straight up a landscape photo. My team would say, "you need to go back and capture the architecture or crop out the landscape and resubmit."
Again beautiful photos, I aspire to take world class landscape photos like this but this being architecture is a huge stretch and has me questioning the logic here. Willing to be humbled here and I am definitely not saying I could do better but I am familiar with what fails and what passes as architecture and if we are the company that sells more architectural photos than any other in the world and we would only approve the second one as a context shot, I am not sure if we should call this something else? This would not sell with the clients I deal with, maybe appear in a snooty magazine but again I wish I could be more excited about these results as someone who does this every single day.
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Couldn't agree more, especially on the Monument valley, this image even looks like it was captured from a phone....
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