Critique the Community

Travel

Welcome to another Critique the Community contest!

Each month, Fstoppers is challenging our community to submit their best photographs for our Critique the Community Youtube show, and three lucky winners will win a variety of photography related prizes.  

With summer in full swing, we want to see your best "Travel" images.  Your photos can be from any genre of photography including landscapes, portraits, architecture, or photo journalism, but it must portray a sense of travel and exploration OR have a good back story on how the image was taken while you were traveling.

Each image featured in the critique will be picked based on creativity, lighting, subject matter, overall production, final edit, story telling, and overall "wow" factor. The community rating does play a small part in our selection but it's not as big as you might think so don't get too wrapped up in what others have to say about your image. 

Deadline

This month we are allowing each participant to submit up to 3 photos.  All images must be posted to this page no later than August 30th, at 11:00pm Eastern time.  

As always, every eligible entry must have at least 3 sentences explaining how the photo was taken, any valuable technical information including lighting, camera gear, lens choice, etc, and any background story that might help our viewers understand why your image is so interesting.  We have pulled images from our final critique because the photographer did not give us enough information to make the critique informative. 

The Prizes

Each month we are giving away a variety of different photography related prizes. Below are the prizes being offered for the 3 randomly chosen images featured in the next Critique the Community. 

First Place - One first place winner will receive the new Tamron 28 - 75mm f/2.8 Di III VXD G2 zoom lens (Nikon or Sony). This lens is a great full frame lens that offers wide angle and medium telephoto focal lengths in a robust, but easy to carry zoom lens. The fast 2.8 aperture is great for achieving professional quality images in low light and super shallow depth of field when taking portraits, but can also produce tack sharp landscape images when stopped down to f/8.0.  Valued up to $999.

Second Place - One second place winner will receive the Spyder X2 Elite Colorimeter by Datacolor. This monitor calibration device is critical for achieving standardized color on your desktop monitors as well as your mobile laptop workstations. This updated version's advanced display mapping & analysis will give your monitors better color, brightness, contrast, gamut, tone response and white point. You can also check screen brightness, color uniformity and display color accuracy. Valued at $269.

Third Place - One third place winner will receive a free tutorial from the Fstoppers Store.  We have full length tutorials on a wide range of genres such as architectural photography, headshots, landscapes, product photography, and of course portrait photography.  Valued at $299

Added Bonus!

And finally, to help celebrate summer and all your travel adventures, Fstoppers is having a massive sale on Elia Locardi's tutorial Photographing the World 2: Cityscapes, Intro to Astrophotography, and Advanced Post Processing. This tutorial is normally priced at $300 but for the entire month you can get it for just $59.

This 15+ hour long tutorial lets you travel along side Elia as he travels to over 5 countries capturing some of the most beautiful locations the world has to offer. Whether it is the incredible modern cityscapes of Hong Kong and Singapore or the ancient temples of Cambodia, Elia Locardi walks you through his process of capturing a wide range of man-made buildings and architecture. After exploring parts of Southeast Asia, Elia flies to his native country of Italy to capture Cinque Terre, one of the most beautiful and iconic coastal villages in the world. Finally, the entire team flies down to the southern island of New Zealand to capture the night sky and Milky Way Galaxy. 

This tutorial consists of 19 individual lessons. Once you experience Elia capture each photograph on location, he then takes you back to the post production studio where he explains all his advanced tips and tricks used to make these images come to life. As with every tutorial in the Fstoppers library, you will receive all of the image files needed to master Elia's advanced techniques while following along on your own computer. 

Regardless if you are a beginner with photography or you are a professional photographer who has already traveled to these breathtaking locations on your own, Elia's Photographing the World series is guaranteed to not only teach you new ways to improve your own photography, but it will also make you feel like you are right there exploring the world together. 

Good luck to everyone entering and we look forward to critiquing your best "travel" images!

Featured Image by the extremely talented Herbert Franke