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
Based on the definition of the rating system, you are correct Tony... but it can be counter-intuitive to give a 2-star rating to a really crappy studio shot... especially since the next step up is "portfolio worthy" and there is big spread between a terrible studio shot and one that is ready for your portfolio, so it's hard to give the entire spectrum 2 stars.
If a shot needs work, it's not ready for your portfolio. If it's ready for your portfolio, it probably doesn't need work. Seems pretty cut and dry to me.
Tony, yes, though it still seems unfair to give a really bad studio shot (that really deserves 1-star but can’t be given 1-star because the photographer used a strobe) the same 2-star rating as a great studio shot that just needs a small tweak to be portfolio-ready. It is the inability to rate with these subtleties in mind that is the shortfall of the rating system.
At the same time, it’s also possible for a “snapshot” taken on a phone to be given a high rating based on other factors that are in control of the photographer—composition, angle, etc.
I like your lighting but the background/location is boring, it'd be more interesting if it was in a boxing gym. Right now it's just a really good picture of a boxer. One of the photo the boxer gave a little smile i dont really like. I feel like the expression could be better.
Tri - I can see your point. But I think that this is more of a portrait than an environmental portrait. That said, an environmental portrait would look great with the model. Maybe something like Lee did in PR with his jiu jitsu coach
Your photos are ranking between 2 and 3 stars, which appears to be average for most of these contests. I would have to agree that they are average as professional photos go. You asked for critiques when you put your photos online, so that's what you got.
A heads up Lee, Patrick and team : this is the last Fstoppers post that allows commenting. All articles subsequent to this one do not show the green "Post" button to allow commenting.
Edit: it is now fixed.
Not so! Most of the posts in groups still won't accept comments.
Oh you're right, the problem remains in several places!
My image wasn't showing up, but I figured out how to delete and repost. Now I don't know how to delete this comment, because I'm just that good.