Critique the Community
Telephoto Photos
Submit Your Best Telephoto Photos
Congratulations to the winners!
Watch Patrick and Lee critique the best "telephoto" images on Fstoppers.
Thanks for being a part of our first-ever live critique. To enter the next contest/critique, click here.
Rules & Prizes
For the next critique, we want to see your best telephoto images. Many photographers consider anything 85mm and beyond (on 35mm) to be telephoto but for the sake of this critique, we only want to see images taken at 200mm and beyond. Each user can submit up to 3 images. Please let us know what lens you used and the story behind the shot in the description section of your entries.
Wed, 05/13/2020 - 12:15
This contest has ended.
277 people have cast a total of 20,896 votes on 513 entries from 234 participants
Contest Submissions
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29 Comments
My longest lens is 85mm...doh!
The photo I entered received a 2.5 which isn't bad. I scrolled through a lot of the photos and again, there are shots that were quite good that received fairly poor ratings.
My shot that received a 2.5 has a rating of 3.18 in my FS portfolio. Not a large discrepancy but enough to bolster the opinions of many here that there are members that give low ratings in an effort to boost their chances of winning. I don't know what can be done since it's not a scientific sort of poll.
Is it a crop sensor camera, or can you enter crop-mode if a full frame? - add in that crop factor... Hum.. Happen to have a teleconverter in addition?
My Idea and actual problem with the way pictures are rated is that there ist next to no feedback. So maybe there should be a system that forces you to comment, once for every picture you commit and once for every 10 votes or so. You cant comment "wow nice picture" and give 1 Star. I dont really care about the stars tbh but I want to improve, so if some one thinks a picture is a 1 Star just tell them why.
Lee Morris , any thoughts on having a post production contest? Where the goal of the contest isn't to submit people's own photos, but where people edit the RAW image that's posted as part of the contest. So the judging will be done soley on people's post production skills.
Might be cool for quarantine project since most people are stuck indoors.
yes that would be an interesting twist to the critiques. However, I think the current contests are already mostly a showcase of post production techniques. This comes to show in the constantly recurring themes in landscape and portraiture with their lack of diversity from a photographic viewpoint and their tendency in post to create an assortment of mostly identical, somewhat outworldly imagery.