Critique the Community
Male Fitness
Submit your best male fitness image for your chance to win a free Fstoppers tutorial.
Congratulations to the winners!
Sometimes photos of ripped men are well shot and are pleasing to look at, sometimes they're not. Listen to Lee Morris and Kieth Bradshaw break down good and bad men's fitness photography in this week's Critique the Community.
Congratulations to the two winners for this episode. Monique Insoll submitted the highest average community rated image and Navin Chandra was randomly selected to win a free Fstoppers original tutorial. We will be in touch with both of you to claim your prize.
Next week, we plan to sit down and review concert photography. If you have a photos of live music performances submit them HERE for a chance to be critiqued and win one of two free Fstoppers original tutorials.
Rules & Prizes
Lee was recently challenged by Pye Jirsa from SLR Lounge to do a male fitness photography competition. Although the results of that shoot have not been published yet, this week's Critique the Community was inspired by their images. Are your male fitness photos up to professional standards?
Between now and June 19th, you have the opportunity to submit up to three of your best male fitness photos for your chance to be critiqued in the next episode and win a free Fstoppers original tutorial. We will be giving away two free Fstoppers tutorials to the entrants. The first winner will be selected based on the highest average community rated image. The second winner will be chosen at random.
Once you've uploaded your images, be sure to scroll through the rest of the submissions and provide your own feedback. You can rate each image efficiently by using your number and keypad. Additionally, we encourage you to leave positive comments on how you feel other images could be improved.
Wed, 06/19/2019 - 23:45
This contest has ended.
336 people have cast a total of 18,036 votes on 165 entries from 91 participants
Contest Submissions
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.
17 Comments
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Ok, what do you think your pictures should be rated?
There are certainly some people who rate images low on purpose (we are keeping an eye on them) but, because everyone is rating everyone's images, no one person can kill the rating of a single image. It may just take a few days for your images to be rated by more than 1 person.
One problem is that you are using the mean value instead of the mode. By relying solely on the mean you allow outliers to unduly influence the vote. But if you still want to use a mean value consider using a mean value based on +/- two standard deviations of the vote distribution or 95% of the votes. This would also eliminate the outliers.
Another issue seems to be that people either don't know the rating system or simply ignore it. If the goal is to create an image suitable for one's portfolio (which varies by genre) than a different scale may work better.
Portfolio ready?
1 Needs a lot of work
2 Needs some work
3 Ready to go
4 Will get you clients
5 Will get you a showing