Critique the Community
Stormy
Submit Your Best "Stormy" Images
Congratulations to the winners!
For this critique, we got some really cool shots of storms. Watch our critique video here.
For the next critique on "photos taken at night" you can always visit Fstoppers.com/contests.
Rules & Prizes
Have you photographed a crazy event, portrait, or composite that utilizes an extreme weather event? If so, we want to see your best "stormy" images.
Each photographer is allowed to submit up to three images. We will be choosing our favorite images for the critique and giving away two tutorials from the Fstoppers Store to the images that we loved the most. For this critique, the highest-rated image will not win a free tutorial so there is no point in trying to down-vote your competition.
Make sure you add details about the concept, and how you photographed your submissions in the description box. Images without a description will be disqualified.
Tue, 10/13/2020 - 23:15
This contest has ended.
225 people have cast a total of 9,921 votes on 292 entries from 171 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.
38 Comments
This is becoming such a toxic contest, have now deleted my entries after receiving numerous 1 stars. Not saying they are the best but clearly not taken on my phone with no thought. It's just a fun light hearted contest..
This was my first competition here. While rating photos the past week I noticed all the bitching about how flawed the voting is on this site. At first i though they were all just being silly.. but now i tend to agree with most of them in pointing out how flawed your rating system is.
There are clearly photos entered here that are better than mine that has a lower rating than my one entry. and there are most definitely entries here that deserve better rating than the low ratings they ended up with.
Dear FSTOPPERS Team... your site and RATING SYSTEM IS FUCKED UP, Yes possibly it was manipulated like they hypothesized while voting... BUT then fix it !
And Honestly? You two guys are not the GODS of photography. I would honestly have an honest rating from 400 other photographers of my work rather than you sit and talk nonsense over it.
As far as anyone can tell, it seems the ratings manipulation is being done by multiple independent users who give images low ratings, not some sort of problem with the site itself. There's not really a fix for that, nor is there really an incentive to. They recently stopped giving free tutorials to the highest scoring images, so at this point, ratings have no meaning aside from how you feel about them.
Also, I think you're missing the point of a critique. That is to talk about an image, and identify its strengths and weaknesses so that the creator can improve on it and people present can learn from it. When I was in art school, students critiqued each other's work all the time, it's part of the process. It's usually better than a numerical rating, no matter how many people voted, as it gives you actionable advice on your images.
I noticed there were a lot of fantastic photos that were down voted to ones :( Makes me sad people have to be petty (and I'm not talking about my own, just so people don't think I'm whining about the voting on mine.).
No, I am not missing the point.. My issue is with the rating system. I have no issue with the critique part NOR did I write here and complain about it...
The last paragraph of your previous post really sounded like you took issue with the hosts critiquing images.