Rules & Prizes

Welcome to the July installment of the Critique the Community!  This month's critique theme is going to be "Augmented with Artificial Intelligence," and we want to see your best photographs that have been enhanced using Artificial Intelligence. This could be headshots that have been retouched using Ai, architectural images that use Ai to clean up landscaping, real photoshoots that were planned or designed with the help of Ai, or simply photos that have been re-rendered using an Ai image generator.  The only requirement is that some part of the initial image was created by you, using traditional photography. 

Rules 

  1. Each photographer may submit up to three images. 
  2. This month's contest features the use of artificial intelligence, but the original image must still be based on a form of real photography. In other words, the entire image cannot simply be generated with Ai. 
  3. 10 Images will be chosen by Lee and Patrick for the video critique. 
  4. Finally, every image submitted MUST HAVE some written commentary on how the image was created, what gear was used, and how you used Ai to enhance or reimagine the initial photograph you captured.  Please reference any specific Ai algorithm or software used to make your edits. Any photo with a single sentence description will not be included. 

Prizes

Top 3 Images - The top 3 submissions will receive their choice of any Fstoppers photography tutorial found in the Fstoppers Store. 

Grid of photography course and tutorial thumbnail covers featuring portraits, macro, fashion, and post-processing content.

Our elaborate and exhaustive photography tutorials not only help photographers immediately start taking professional quality images, but most of our tutorials also share business and marketing techniques that can help make photography a full time income. With genres like Headshots, Landscapes, Architecture and Real Estate, Fashion, Macro, and Product Photography, there is something for every photographer no matter what genre you specialize in. This prize is valued at $299. 



Good luck to everyone who enters, and we look forward to seeing your best "Ai augmented" photographs!

Thu, 07/30/2026 - 23:36

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