Critique the Community
Shadows
Submit Your Best Images With Unique Shadows
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Rules & Prizes
In this week's contest, we want to see images that focus on the absence of light. We want to see the unique ways you've used shadows in your photography.
Each photographer is allowed to submit up to three different entries. The highest-rated image and one random entry will both win a free tutorial from the Fstoppers Store. If you're unsure which tutorial you'd choose, may I suggest our newest tutorial, The Well-Rounded Photographer, that covers eight genres taught by eight different instructors.
Featured Image by: Georgy Chernyadyev
Mon, 05/31/2021 - 01:30
This contest has ended.
91 people have cast a total of 4,107 votes on 162 entries from 90 participants
Contest Submissions
Click on the thumbnails below to comment and rate each image.
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18 Comments
I was having issues as well in Firefox. I opened it up in Chrome and it worked fine.
Based on your comment I tried with Microsoft Edge browser and there it is! Thank`s Bennion!
the voting on these photos are so funny. It's just a bunch of salty photographers down voting others.
Did they hurt your feelings?
all the feelings haha. No I just see amazing photos with such low ratings. My feeling are never hurt.
I've been seeing the same problem and I have a pretty good eye for true art. I agree about members down voting others. It's healthy for us to join these sights but not if we have ruthless members taking the fun out of it.
The first rule of photography contests is follow the guidelines and your 3 photos, good as they are, do not make a feature of shadows.
Salty Photographer
But he clearly wrote in the description that shadows are present. So they follow the guidelines.
Sarcastic Photographer
exactly! guidelines were followed 😂
Bro, it's a girl touching her vagina and she's lit with a flashlight. I don't know what else to say. The exposure is off on all of them. If I told you "especially that one," would you know which one I was talking about? There's no professional posing or professional lighting added. Just pretty girls being naked while you document the fact that pretty girls were naked in front of you. The best thing to do is to take all your pictures that have been rated 1 star, and sit and learn why. You can do that by studying others who are well regarded in your genre and seeing what is the difference between your photos and theirs. Learn lighting, learn posing, learn composition, learn camera settings, learn angles, learn post processing. Learn how to close the gap between 1s and 5s. It seems you have no shortage of models willing to work with you. So it should be easy to progress if you want to.
If I go and edit the description of my entry does it mess up that entry at all, now that the voting is closed?
Don't think so, but if you don't want to risk it write the edit in a comment. Not sure they will read it during the live critique though