Critique the Community
Submit Your Most Profitable Photo
Congratulations to the winners!
All of these images have made over $2,000. The highest earning image has made somewhere between $200,000-$300,000. Based on your first impression looking at them, would you guess they've made that much?
As this episode of Critique the Community is a little different from most, we will not be giving away tutorials to the winners as we normally might. That said, our next contest will offer two free tutorials, one to the highest rated entry and another to a randomly selected entrant. If you'd like to participate, upload your best cell phone image HERE.
Rules & Prizes
For this critique the community we are asking to see your most profitable photographs. Please only submit images that have made at least $2000, but the more you've made, the better.
RULES: With each submission, please include in the description how much the image has made as well as a quick story of how you were hired, or how you sold it.
The spirit of this "critique" is to inspire other photographers with success stories and dream jobs. Please do not submit images from high paying "events" where you shot thousands of images unless a particular image from that event was licensed separately. You may submit photography that has been printed and sold as art, just let us know how much the image has made in its lifetime.
Wed, 09/11/2019 - 01:00
This contest has ended.
297 people have cast a total of 4,884 votes on 62 entries from 52 participants
Contest Submissions
Click on the thumbnails below to comment and rate each image.
Click here to learn about the Fstoppers rating system and what each star value means.
44 Comments
This was a great video, very inspiring.
Giving away a free tutorial for a photographer that did > 2000$ on a single image is pointless. Those who need a tutorial are who spent dozens of hours on an image and did not earn a cent. IMHO (edit: in any case I appreciate a lot the fact that the image has to be accompanied by a quick story, I'm just ranting because I am not able to participate to this contest)
That may be true. But perhaps they want to move into a different style photography from what they earned money on so then the tutorial would be helpful. I'm interested to see how people rate these images. Will we continue to see the very common 2 star ratings??
You'll definitely see the majority being 2 stars regardless of what the topic is and what the actual quality of the images are because people don't know how to follow instructions.
I’ve just down cited your comment with my fat thumbs on my phone and can’t undo it haha sorry!!!!!
I can see both sides. Following this one, I’d be interest in a sort of “how to market this image” video/contest, where they focus more on the marketing aspect of potential high selling images (ex: who the market could be/ where to sell it/ how to get it seen/ etc). I don’t want to come across as rude, but if some of these made over $2000, clearly it’s my marketing that needs work, more than my photography. Some insight into that would be incredibly interesting and valuable.