Critique the Community
Drama
Enter Your Best Dramatic Photos
Congratulations to the winners!
Congrats to all our winners in last month's Critique the Community photo contest! You can watch the video above!
First Place: Congrats to Rio Nakayama who will receive a full Smoke Ninja Pro Trident system. These powerful battery operated smoke machines let you add haze, smoke, fog, and even bubble effects to any of your photo and video productions without the need for electricity. The built in remote control can be used to wirelessly trigger the Smoke Ninja Pro or you can even tether them together and fire multiple units as one single unit. The Trident Kit comes with 3 Smoke Ninja Pro units, bluetooth Haze Nossle, bubble nozzle, and remote control handle. This prize is valued at $799.
Second Place: Congrats to Oliver Tan who will receive an unlocked copy of Skylum's latest flagship photo editing program Luminar Neo. Luminar burst onto the photo editing scene back in 2016 and was praised by photographers who wanted to edit their photos quicker with simple slider and single button effects adjustments. In 2022 Skylum updated the software with Luminar Neo which added AI effects such as relighting, sky replacement, background removal, powerline removal, and atmospheric effects. So whether you are a photographer simply looking to edit your raw files or you want to begin adding different skies, changing the lighting, or developing a more robust color palate to your images, Luminar Neo is a the perfect editing tool. This prize is valued at $347
Third Place: Finally, congrats to Paal Lund who is our final third place winner will receive a free copy of any photography tutorial from the Fstoppers Store. This prize is valued at $299.
Rules & Prizes
For our next photography contest, we want to see your best dramatic photos ever taken! The theme is dramatic but the genre of photography can be anything. If you have a photo that you feel is a dramatic representation of a landscape, product shot, portrait, wedding, architectural shoot, or any other genre of photography, you are free to submit it to November's critique the community.
Rules
- This contest is 100% free to join
- Each photographer may submit up to 3 images
- Each photograph must include a small description that includes details about how the photograph was taken, what post processing was done to it, where it was taken, and anything else useful for us to discuss. Simply writing a single sentence that doesn't explain much of anything will disqualify you from being chosen!
Prizes
Fstoppers is excited to be giving away some amazing photography related gear for each of these critique the community contests. For November's "dramatic" critique we are giving away the following prizes:
First Place: One lucky winner will receive a full Smoke Ninja Pro Trident system. These powerful battery operated smoke machines let you add haze, smoke, fog, and even bubble effects to any of your photo and video productions without the need for electricity. The built in remote control can be used to wirelessly trigger the Smoke Ninja Pro or you can even tether them together and fire multiple units as one single unit. The Trident Kit comes with 3 Smoke Ninja Pro units, bluetooth Haze Nossle, bubble nozzle, and remote control handle. This prize is valued at $799.
Second Place: This month's second place winner will receive an unlocked copy of Skylum's latest flagship photo editing program Luminar Neo. Luminar burst onto the photo editing scene back in 2016 and was praised by photographers who wanted to edit their photos quicker with simple slider and single button effects adjustments. In 2022 Skylum updated the software with Luminar Neo which added AI effects such as relighting, sky replacement, background removal, powerline removal, and atmospheric effects. So whether you are a photographer simply looking to edit your raw files or you want to begin adding different skies, changing the lighting, or developing a more robust color palate to your images, Luminar Neo is a the perfect editing tool. This prize is valued at $347
Third Place: Our final third place winner will receive a free copy of any photography tutorial from the Fstoppers Store. This prize is valued at $299.
BONUS NOVEMBER FLASH SALE!
Each month we also offer our own special sales, and for the month of November we are marking down one of our best photography tutorials ever produced, The Hero Shot by Brian Rodgers Jr. For the next 30 days only, you can get this 13 hour long product photographer masterclass for just $100.
In this course, Brian teaches you everything you need to know to produce jaw dropping, highly polished looking product shots from start to finish. Regardless if you own fancy studio strobes or just have a couple of cheap LED lights, Brian shows you everything you need to craft dramatic and beautiful lighting on all sort of different products, surface materials, and mini product photography sets. He shows you all the settings, all the lighting and light modifier tips, introduces some of his favorite tools, outlines how to tether and shoot from a computer, tricks for exposure and focus bracketing, and using single items to make larger multi product display images. Once every frame is taken, Brian then takes you into Photoshop where all the magic happens. And to make following along super easy, Brian has included each high res file in this download so you can copy his workflow and achieve the same results real time.
We can't wait to see all your submissions to this contest and look forward to seeing your dramatic images!
Featured image taken by the incredible Win Mag
Fri, 11/29/2024 - 18:00
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275 people have cast a total of 17,449 votes on 541 entries from 275 participants
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29 Comments
If we start drama in the comment section, someone could take a screenshot and submit it as a photo.
DRAMA:
noun
dra·ma ˈdrä-mə
1
literature : a composition (see composition sense 5a) in verse or prose intended to portray life or character or to tell a story usually involving conflicts and emotions through action and dialogue and typically designed for theatrical performance : play
compare closet drama
b
: a movie or television production with characteristics (such as conflict) of a serious play
broadly : a play, movie, or television production with a serious tone or subject
a police drama
2
literature : dramatic art, literature, or affairs
English drama
3
a
: a state, situation, or series of events involving interesting or intense conflict of forces
the drama of the past week
dealing with some family drama.
Pigeons flying in a studio settings, an athlete jumping off a diving board, and a polar bear are drama?? Don't get me wrong; the photos were shot well. For me, though, the word DRAMA implies (as the definition implies) a push or pull from a normal emotional state of mind.
You had photos of people physically fighting in the streets, a man surviving a plane crash, a family grieving at a funeral, boxers fighting in a ring, and natural or manmade disasters like volcanos spewing lava or firefighters putting out fires, but none of those images even appeared on your radar??
Maybe stop being so vague in the description of what you're looking for in these contests. I'm starting to understand why photographers started leaving this site several years ago.
genius
Is it just me or is AI ruining photography and our reality. People will believe anything is real if it's in front of them
That's a very good point!
I originally entered a photo were AI was used to add a couple of details. I wrote that in the description, and asked what people thought about it.. I later deleted it tho, as I figured it wasn't the right place to ask for peoples feedback, especially as someone might vote, without reading the description.
Also, in my opinion, adding things like that using AI, makes it more "art" than photography.
personally I don't see the difference, as long as it looks real enough. downvote me...lol. The photo where you added a couple of details with AI... cool. Photography is art. This isn't photojournalism. Where your trying to make AI photos of real people and passing them off as real. But i think we can have plenty of arguments about adding AI to augment photos we have taken. It's quite another deal to generate complete photos.... but hey maybe that's ok too, if it can pass and win too, and none of us notices. Maybe it's the ability to use the software that we are missing. haha. So we are trying to regulate 'Cheating' is that what you mean. But 'cheating' on what. In your case a photo was taken. You just did some editing. Just a more modern form of editing. Technically, as some have pointed out. Modern cameras themselves are built with AI features, to highlight faces, and many other gadgets. How far do we go with this 'Cheating' scandalous thoughts? Maybe there is a line to be drawn on completely AI built photos, but if you can't tell, and they don't reveal... than... thems the breaks. That's the new world we live in. We need to probably just accept it.