Critique the Community
Night
Submit Your Best Photos Taken At Night
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Rules & Prizes
Photographs of the stars at night have been done to death. For this critique, we want to see all genres of photography taken at night.
When most photographers hear the term "night photography" they immediately think of landscapes photographed at night. We will accept those, but we are particularly excited to see other genres of photography taken at night.
1. Each photographer can submit up to three different images.
2. Images without a description will be disqualified (we want to hear how you took the image)
3. 2 submitters that make the critique will be chosen by the hosts to win a free tutorial in the Fstoppers Store
Lead Photo by Eric Pare
Tue, 10/20/2020 - 13:15
This contest has ended.
258 people have cast a total of 10,638 votes on 428 entries from 218 participants
Contest Submissions
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31 Comments
It's not about technical knowledge. It's about whether a shot is aesthetically pleasing. And I must say that I consider your night nude to be extremely jarring on the senses.
Ive screen shot that exact thing, i uploaded my pic and within 30 seconds there was 1 vote, 1*... you dont even have time to view an image correctly in that time, let alone vote on it. All hail the Instagram troll generation where the average viewing time for shots is 6 seconds.
6 seconds? You mean 1 second right? :D
Although to be fair some people might not use the rating system as intended, and would simply give a 1 rating on a picture just because they don't like it (even if the picture is tack sharp, with thoughts given to the framing, taken with a DSLR and pro lighting, etc.).
I hate nude pictures, it's just my personal taste. When I see one I generally don't rate it at all and ignore, even if they're considered world class by everybody. But some people might just give it a 1 rating, even though the picture is objectively a 4/5.
Yeah that’s how I approach it, rather than be negative I just ignore and move on, choosing to rate shots I do like.
if its one star is good photo dont worry, better than a 5 star photoshopped naked model in the night
Whether a photo is good is not just because of technical skills, but also other aspects like composition.
In that particular shot, I rated it low instead of not rating it at all because for me it was lacking in many aspects what makes a photo something worth looking at. It seemed to be taken rather "random", without much composition, seemingly without much thought having gone into position of the model, the environment, the pose of the model, etc..
There's a lot of light on the model -- but not in any way that's interesting, adding anything to the photo except for visibility.
There's nothing in the photo that tells why she's naked
One of the other photos which you uploaded was much more interesting, as photo, and therefore I rated it higher.