Submit Your Best Images Taken with a Smart Phone for a Chance to Win One of Two Free Fstoppers Tutorials
The votes have been cast and Fstoppers members have given their feedback in the latest episode of Critique the Community. Check out the 20 images we chose to give feedback to and see if your ratings matched up with Lee and Patrick and the average consensus from the community.
Congratulations to Nico BABOT for submitting the highest voted picture taken on a cell phone and to Mark den Hartog for being our randomly chosen entrant to win an Fstoppers original tutorial. We will be in touch via your Fstoppers profiles to claim your prize.
If you weren't able to submit your pictures to this episode, join us in the next one where we will be critiquing wildlife photography. We'll be looking for pictures of animals out in a wild habitat, not shots your dog and cat roaming curled up in your house.
The launch of Critique the Community's new platform was a huge success and so we're bringing another episode that should engage every photographer. This week, we're calling for any picture taken by a smart phone.
iPhoneography has become a popular term describing any picture taken with a cell phone. Shooting with your phone is a fantastic way to test your true skill as a photographer. Most photographers know the quality of a photo is not based around the kind of camera you're using; rather, it's based on how you are able to create and light a scene. We are challenging you to put forth your best smart phone images for critique. Once you upload your pictures, take a minute to rate your fellow photographer's work and leave your own thoughts on which images are amazing and which could use improvement.
The image that receives the highest rating from the community will win a free Frstoppers original tutorial. In addition, we will be selecting one image at random in the video to win a tutorial as well.
Mon, 03/19/2018 - 23:45
This contest has ended.
Click on the thumbnails below to comment and rate each image.
Click here to learn about the Fstoppers rating system and what each star value means.
12 Comments
Lee Morris Patrick Hall thanks for your critique and the kind words! The last photo was taken at 30,000 feet while flying across the country. Honestly couldn't tell you where I was or what river that is.
Thanks for selecting my photo for critique. Appreciate the "harsh" review, but you nailed it: I actually do post these kind of images to my Instagram page.
Very fair comments. Always helps to get honest feedback!
so after seeing the results of this, I feel better about my own work, the photos that i submitted that I was proud of both got a 2.1 and a 2.7 review but looking at these images which have a ton of amazing captures in them it seems that everyone seems to just be a hater since no images were even a 4 star.
Thumbs up who thinks there’s too much emphasis on “post processing”. Sheesh.
Here's the thing; most people who view your work don't know if something is retouched or not, they only care about the finished product. So do we. If you can get it perfect in camera, great! But if you can make it better with Photoshop, you should do that so that you can sell more of your work and make more money. At least that is my viewpoint when I am critiquing these shots.
Models retouched with Photoshop are now banned by Getty and must be labeled according to new laws in France and Israel. AP news and sports photography images can’t be altered also in many cases. Just wondering if there’s going to be a general trend towards capturing what the “eye can see”.