Critique the Community
Submit Your Most Unique Photo
Congratulations to the winners!
Congratulations to the lucky 20 images chosen for this Critique the Community, and congrats to the top rated image by Thomas Wohl. This week's random winning submission goes to Mike James. 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 "action" photos here: https://fstoppers.com/critique-community/submit-your-best-action-photo Make sure your enter your photos by January 24th at 11pm Eastern Time for your chance to make the next episode!
Rules & Prizes
We've all taken a photo of a pet, a landscape, a flower, or a girl walking on train tracks. We don't want to see any of that, unless of course you've figured out a way to do one of these cliche shots in a different way. We want to see something unique. Maybe you came up with a really unique concept, photographed a totally different subject, or used some sort of different lighting or post-processing.
We want to see images that are different from what casual photographers around the world are producing.
Sun, 01/05/2020 - 13:00
This contest has ended.
608 people have cast a total of 45,769 votes on 663 entries from 435 participants
Contest Submissions
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103 Comments
I'm really digging the variety so far, some beautiful shots! ...but I'm grading harsh and knocking off a star for anything that's not surprisingly different or refreshing... Don't take it personal
My photo, (“Snow Shadows”) at about 48:50 - This is an area about 6 feet tall and 10 feet wide.
It’s what happens to snow drifts here in Anchorage, when they’re left alone for a while, and the wind smooths them out. It was shot in late afternoon sun (no artificial light) with a 70-200, at 200m. (ISO 100, f/7.1) with a Nikon D7100. I simply photographed it, converted to monochrome, and adjusted the contrast a bit. It’s part of a series, showing shapes like this, as well as various animal tracks. I've never entered a Fstoppers contest before, to thanks to those who voted me in here!
In this case I think that's perfectly reasonable and given the contest subject matter, if this is supposed to be for a portfolio of "unique"... anything not actually unique should be 2 star regardless of how good the image is.
Well, do remember the ratings persist beyond this specific competition as well though.
I'm new here so I might be wrong but it doesn't appear the ratings are the same. I have separate ratings for the contest and my portfolio.
Interesting - I'm surprised at that, but I'll look at it more.