Critique the Community
Submit Your Best "Quirky" Image
Critique the Community "Quirky" Edition
Congratulations to the winners!
Congratulations to the lucky 20 images chosen for this Critique the Community, and congrats to the top rated image by Justin Davis. This week's random winning submission goes to Alexis Senecal. Please contact Lee Morris to claim your free tutorial from the Fstoppers Store.
If you want to submit to our next Critique the Community, you can post your best "backlit" photos here: https://fstoppers.com/critique-community/submit-your-best-backlit-photograph. Make sure your enter your photos by January 12th at 11:45pm Eastern Time for your chance to make the next episode!
Rules & Prizes
We want to see your best images that capture "Quirky" for our next Critique the Community.
Between now and January 29th, you may submit up to two of your best images that depict something "Quirky". We will be selecting a total of 20 images to give feedback to and two entrants will win a free Fstoppers original tutorial. The first winner will be decided by the highest average community rated image and the second will be chosen at random. Please note that we want to see high quality pictures and will probably overlook anything that looks like a snapshot.
Once you've uploaded your submissions, we encourage you to scroll through everyone else's and give them ratings and comments of your own. Please keep feedback encouraging and helpful.
Wed, 01/29/2020 - 22:15
This contest has ended.
416 people have cast a total of 18,976 votes on 287 entries from 202 participants
Contest Submissions
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41 Comments
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I have a feeling this week's critique can get brutal here on the website.
I find it hard to place and determine "quirky" as a thing, without it dipping its toe into just being weird. It's very subjective.
harder still to see a "quirky" image in a portfolio without context especially as a single image or perhaps not knowing it might be part of a series.
Either way, I won't be joining in, it's not my style.
But looking forward to see what kind of images show up and vote where I can! :)
Agree, and I’m having difficulty associating “high quality” and not a “snapshot” while browsing “Quirky”. Should be an interesting subject though.
John Keatley is always one of my go to photographers when it comes to "quirky" themes. His stuff is near world class and much of it is very quirky: https://www.keatleyphoto.com/
To me quirky means something that takes an unexpected turn or has an ironic theme to it. It would be something riding on the line of comedy and slightly obscure. Most quirky images will make you stop and do a double take or try to make you question what is happening. A portrait of a beautiful girl smirking or winking at you probably won't cut it.
Ok, I was not familiar with him and admit his work is certainly high quality, avant-garde, and quirky. A good example to keep in mind as we rate this week. I guess I had a more street or spontaneous framework in mind; although one of mine is and one was posed :-). Thanks!
I would like to see a definition of what both a "SNAPSHOT" and "NEEDS MORE WORK" actually means. And if the rating is NMW what that work is to be and why. I know it won't happen, but until this rating system is intelligently reviewed I will not participate in these competitions. From previous comments on this site, there are many members that feel the same way. Its a real pity !