Critique the Community
Motion
Submit your best images that incorporate "motion" for a chance to win a free Fstoppers tutorial
Congratulations to the winners!
We had quite a wide variety of photos submitted for the latest episode of Critique the Community. Here are the ratings and the winners of the free Fstoppers' original tutorials.
Congratulations to Mike Kuhn for submitting the highest rated image and to Connor Moriarty for being the randomly selected winner of the Fstoppers' tutorials. We will be sending you private messages through your Fstoppers account to claim your prize.
If you missed your chance to participate in this episode, we invite you to submit your best senior portrait images to our next episode HERE. We hope to film our next Critique with Peter Hurley so be sure to get your submissions in before Thursday at noon EST. We will be selecting 20 images and will be giving away more tutorials so make sure to submit your images soon.
Rules & Prizes
This week's Critique the Community strays from our normal trend of genre specific photography and opens up submissions to any images that incorporate motion. Although our featured image could be categorized as a sports/commercial image taken by Monte Isom, we are inviting the community to submit images from any genre of photography as long as it incorporates a sense of movement or motion to it. We will be awarding the highest community rated image a free Fstoppers tutorial. In addition, we will be randomly selecting one entrant to win a second free Fstoppers tutorial.
As soon as you've uploaded your submissions, we've made it easy for you to scroll through your fellow community members submissions to give them a rating as well. Please give an honest rating based on the Fstoppers rating system below. If you are found out to be abusing the system by consistently giving out extra low ratings, your submission may be disqualified. We encourage you to preserve the constructive integrity of this contest by providing fair, honest, helpful feedback to each other.
Fri, 05/11/2018 - 23:45
This contest has ended.
270 people have cast a total of 13,544 votes on 240 entries from 173 participants
Contest Submissions
Click on the thumbnails below to comment and rate each image.
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33 Comments
Really should require explanations for people to be able to rate 1 star.
Opening up a discussion on members' rating of photos in the Critique the Community themes. I have two observations, not just from this theme but for most of the themes. I'm not saying my observations are correct or not but I thought I'd see what others think. First I noticed that the higher rated photos tend to have more post processing done to them. Again not saying this is right or wrong, good or bad, just an observation. The second thing I noticed and I think Lee and Patrick have said the same thing is that the community tends to rate photos lower than I think they should be and I think I'm a fairly critical reviewer myself. I see a lot of 2.5 photos that I think are worth a 3.something. What do you think???
For example this photo received a 2.83 https://fstoppers.com/entry/248513. As a photographer who shots professional motocross and supercross my editors would be very happy with this photo. I could also use this for commercial use. I would say this is a 3.2 to 3.5 photo. Some of my fellow photographers on the series can't get panning shots like this and they photograph motocross and supercross for a living.
I wouldn't put too much thought into the ratings - photographers will always critique other photographers on a strongly weighted scale. What may be a four or five star photo for an editor or subscriber may be a 2 or 3 from a photographer who doesn't care for the material or effect.
Exactly.
Although I'd require explanation of 2+ text lines for both 1 and 2 star.