Critique the Community
Group Photos
Submit Your Best Group Photos
Congratulations to the winners!
Congratulations to our winners. Janos Lakatos's image was chosen by the community as the best submission and Robert Sakowski's was selected as the random winner. To claim your free tutorial send Lee Morris a private message.
If you'd like to participate in the next episode, submit your best images of technology HERE.
Rules & Prizes
In this episode of Critique the Community, we are looking for your best photographs featuring groups of people. The group needs to be more than 2 people and can be of any genre of photography. Keep in mind, our critiques are always based on the idea that only your best work should be featured in your portfolio and these images would be used to gain future clients. Feel free to submit any images you want that fit the guideline but we will still critique based on portfolio quality work regardless.
As always, the highest rated image will win a free tutorial from the Fstoppers Store. During filming, we will also pick one random winner who will also get a copy of any tutorial in our store as well. The deadline for this Critique the Community is April 16th at 11:15pm.
Good luck and we hope everyone is doing well and staying safe as we continue to quarantine ourselves across the world.
Thu, 04/16/2020 - 22:15
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296 people have cast a total of 11,144 votes on 145 entries from 145 participants
Contest Submissions
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39 Comments
Dear Fstoppers,
I know quarantine can sap your will to live, but the last few critiques we agonizing to watch. This used to be my favorite content.
May I please suggest that you add some variety, mix it up for your sakes and ours?
It might peak your interest to have a 3rd party choose the 20 photos to be critiqued. Keep it fresh for you and give a layer of transparency to the process. And since the voting can be crazy it's not necessarily fair to only choose from the pool of highest rated photos.
You could even make it fun and have a previous winner choose the 20. Maybe a third critiquer via Zoom? Or rotate through your roster of contributors. Anything to make it exciting for us all again.
Are you just tired of us? Lee said some things in last week’s episode that seems to make people believe we’ve changed the way we pick the CTC images but I can assure, for the last year and a half, the critiques have all been curated the same way. We don’t like picking 1-2 star images because there isn’t much for us to say about them and so we’ve always tried to pick the most exciting images of the bunch. Almost always, those 20 images fall within the top 100 images rated by the community.
We can try to do something remotely with a guest and test that out. I think what you might want though is Lee and I to be more entertaining and polarizing....we can do that for sure!
Naw, I wouldn't bother commenting if I didn't enjoy you guys... When you're having fun.
I'm just hoping you can get the spark back and was wondering what might light the fire also for everyone who submits.
Being polarising and controversial is easy, that's why the internet is full of that kind of content. But I've never felt that the critiques were controversial. I tend to agree with you two on your observations (on photography) more than not. That's why I come here!
I'm sure being a creator gets old some days, and these are very tiring days stuck inside. But if critiquing the community can spark others to improve their craft then I am also hoping that critiquing the creators will do the same. Rock on.
noooo mr patrick don't read the comments!!! only unhappy keyboard warriors here!
Innovative a display system which can allow the photos to be visualized in an exciting way relative to one another vs. a long list of bland boring
The way in which we view and critique images could be far better and more relevant in the YouTube critiques themselves
The online community critique should be developed by game designers and the allow for Pat and Lee to surf through content more spontaneous and organically in the context of their live interactions which would do better in a twitch format with increased interaction
Just an opinion
visualize a 3 dimensional web of images wherein the various axis can serve as a weighting mechanism .. you fly over to the snap shots noticing that within this domain of low liers we have a number of tags which have emerged via the critiques indicating some as possessing humor and in turn have been upvoted to the top of the stack as it were despite not being found in a more respectable part of town