Submit your best product photos for your chance to win a free Fstoppers tutorial
We sat down with Fstoppers' best commercial product photographer to critique this weeks product photos from the community. Do you agree with Brian's and my ratings and feedback?
For the first time in Critique history, we had a perfect tie for the highest community rated image and will be awarding both entrants a free Fstoppers original tutorial. Congratulations to Roman Sapronov and Max Bridge for submitting the winning images. We'd also like to congratulate jurian kriebel for submitting the randomly selected image to win a free tutorial. We will be in touch with all of you via your Fstoppers profile to claim your prize.
Usually we post our new Critique where you can submit images for a different genre than the latest episode. However, next week we'll be changing things up. Instead of accepting submissions, we will be picking out a variety of 5 star images from the community to comment on. It is extremely rare for a 5 star image to show up in a weekly episode but we want to take the opportunity to exclusively highlight some of the best photographers in the Fstoppers community. Stay tuned for more episodes by keeping an eye on our contests page.
It's time to pull out your best product photos and see how they stand up against rest of the community.
Next week, we will have the opportunity to sit down with Brian Rodgers Jr., the photographer behind The Hero Shot. Brian's commercial product photography work is some of the best we've ever seen and this presents the perfect opportunity for you get get your work critiqued by him.
Between now and October 10th, you have the opportunity to submit two of your best product images for a chance to be both critiqued by Brian Rodgers Jr. and win one of two free Fstoppers original tutorials. The first tutorial winner will be determined by the highest rated community image. The second winner will be selected at random.
As soon as you upload your images, take some time to scroll through the rest of the entries and provide your own feedback. We encourage you to leave helpful and encouraging comments, especially when you recognize how an image could be improved.
Wed, 10/10/2018 - 23:45
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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.
43 Comments
My shot has been given a couple of 1's. Ridiculous, I myself now it's not great, I would only give my shot a 2, but it can't possibly be a 1!
This is what happens when you allow everyone to speak and the idea that everyone opinion count. You allow mediocrity to spread.
You have it all wrong. How are people supposed to get better when people like you, would rather just shoot people down instead of help them?
Avoiding trolls, is shooting people down? I'd say that if you leave a 1 star rate on a image that clearly do not match the 1 star rating description, or you are a troll, or envy, or lazy because you haven't read the rating explanation or blind. I'd say that the first three are most probable. That doesn't help at all beside making a community worse.
My bad, I thought you was complaining about the "mediocre" photos. I see you was talking about the trolls. Personally I vote how I see it. Sure mine isn't doing well, but I won't hold that against anyone. Though some people would, not saying you will. All I get from seeing my image not do well, is inspire me to do better.
oh absolutely, I'd say that there is no mediocrity in good will and effort even if the photo do not turn out well. Everyone have to start somewhere! Mediocrity are those people who do not like something, but still have to go comment, rate or whatever.But that's the internet I guess.
Funny thing...I have that exact drill in my garage!! :-)
Holy smokes, there's some serious haters in this thing. Nearly every image I rated 4 stars already has a "Needs Work" average. Shocking that one of the snarkiest photo communities also has a consistent low rating for everything.
It's an awesome looking drill!
I think its the nature of a rating system where "4 of 5" is considered excellent. It means that the median has to be around 2 or just above.
Yeah, people have to realize that anything from "Okay" to "Above average" are still twos by this rating system.
Also remember that in the videos user ratings and host ratings are generally pretty close
Thanks to everyone who submitted images for this critique! We had over 200 product image submissions which is incredible. Though we only had time to review 20 images, I wanted to say thank you for submitting your work. You guys are producing some great imagery, and I hope my feedback was helpful to those we were able to critique. \m/
anyone having trouble with submitting??
It was great to participate and see all the amazing art the other photographers created, well done everyone involved !
Thank you Brian for your time and the constructive critique. We all appreciate it.
Yeap, definitely having a problem. Can't seem to be able to choose my photo.
yes. thats what is happening to me
Awesome, I'm really glad to hear that :)
I wonder when it will actually get fixed because this is frustrating.
im not able to choose a picture to upload on either option
These are not product photos, they are (very nice) product images (photos + tons of Photoshop and post production)…
same
Same, please fix it someone
The upload does not work on mac or iphone.
Or windows....
You can't upload or submit from a MAC? I give this system a 2, needs work. Actually I just remoted into my windows computer at work it didn't work there either. I revise my vote to 0.
Is anyone else having issues submitting photos? I try to either upload my shots or select them from my portfolio, but neither option seems to work.
Im trying to enter an image but the upload tools doesnt seems to be working
The submission of a photo is not working. I tried on several computers and not able to load. I hope FS will fix.
Trying to upload from a Pc and an android phone, nothing seems to work, plz fix!
Same here. Upload doesn't work on Mac (tried with Safari and Firefox, both doesn't work)
Thanks for bringing the upload issue to our attention. We're working on a fix.
To those of you having trouble uploading, can you try again and let me know if its still not working. Thanks.
It is working ;)
Hey guys, this is my first contest and I’m not gunna lie my image isn’t doing well but I’m super stoked to bed getting the feedback that I am. This is an incredibly awesome platform and I can’t wait to keep doing these in the future!
Fstopper folks sure like their guns and booze.
Booze I will grant you, but only 7 of 162 entries feature guns or gun related products.
7 out of 234, actually. I guess those just jumped out at me for some reason.
Right, my bad, forgot to consider that contestants could submit more than one photo each.