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Enter your Best "Dark" or "Low-Key" images
Enter your Best "Dark" or "Low-Key" images
Welcome to the April Critique the Community! For this contest/critique, we are doing another abstract theme that should allow more photographers to enter. For this month we want to see your most "dark" or "low key" photographs. If you have images that play off of darker tones or contain mostly black, unlit areas, we would love to see them!
First, Second, and Third Place - This month the top 3 images will receive their choice of any Fstoppers photography tutorial found in the Fstoppers Store. 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.
We have decided to extend our 50% off an additional month. For the entire month of April we are offering you, our valued community members, the largest single sale on EVERY Photography Tutorial in the Fstoppers Store.
From now until April 31st you can use the discount code "CTC50" and save 50% on anything in your cart. We are only offering this sales here to our most loyal Critique the Community members as a thank you for all the support you've given us over the years and for participating each month in these photo contests.
Good luck to everyone who enters and we look forward to seeing your best "dark" photographs!
Sat, 05/30/2026 - 12:30
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20 Comments
Slightly off topic, but I think it would be cool to see an America250-themed contest one month... American history, battlefields, military, other Americana? Numerous possibilities could be derived.
This site is about worldwide photography...not just for US only!
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How do I go about deleting all of my old submissions? I didnt realize they are still on your server.
Image Library > Contests > Apply
Then Delete under each image
I have been in a few competitions and those images are decent when looking at the good ratings they received on different international photography platforms,...as soon as I submit them to a competition on Fstoppers, they are simply sandbagged, with 1 or 1/2 star ...strange that there are sanbaggers roaming this website...yet sadly AI photographs that really look tuned and pimped up receive the highest recognition.