Show Us Your Best Wedding Photos, Win Thousands In Prizes
Pye Jirsa and I want to thank everyone who submitted their photos to this wedding critique as well as congratulate each photographer whose images made it into the final show. You can view all the entries and the winners in the post below.
Here are the winners for this month's contest.
3rd Place - Free Tutorial from the Fstoppers Store
Rita Santana's cliff side portrait
2nd Place - Loupedeck CT customizable controller
Wilder Cordova's incredible tree portrait
1st Place - Free Spot in Pye's $10k for $2k mentorship program
Manolo Sierra's first dance capture
To claim your prize, send Lee Morris a private message on Fstoppers. All prizes must be redeemed within 30 days of the results going public.
If you want to join our next Critique the Community, click the link to Contests at the top of Fstoppers. For the month of April the theme is "portraits" and you can enter up to 4 images. The prizes are as follows:
First Place - One grand prize winner will receive a free wireless 2-Light Portable Flash kit by Westcott. Included in this kit is a JR400 400 Ws strobe, a second JR200 200 Ws strobe, a wireless FJ-x3 trigger, and a variety of accessories such as Gel set, Magnetic Grid and 55 degree Reflector. This battery operated kit is great for on-location portraits as well as shooting in the studio and can be synced up to nearly any camera with the universal FJ-x3 wireless flash trigger. Valued at $1199.90
Second Place - Our second place winner will receive a suite of post production software from DxO. Included in this software bundle are copies of PhotoLab 7, FilmPack 7, and ViewPoint 4. With PhotoLab 7, you can edit and color grade all your raw files quickly, easily, and professionally. Once you edit your raw files, you can then use FilmPack 7 to give your photos a classic film look based on your favorite color or black and white film stock. Finally, you can fix all sorts of lens and perspective distortion in ViewPoint 4 to make your photos look as perfect as possible. Valued at $467
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
And finally, to help celebrate the month of April and get everyone excited about portrait photography, Fstoppers has made a massive sale on our portrait tutorial with Clay Cook. It's normally priced at $300 but for the entire month you can get it for just $49.
Clay Cook is an incredible editorial and advertising photographer based out of Louisville, Kentucky. His tutorial on portraiture is incredibly thorough and covers everything from wardrobe styling to simple set building to both simple and advanced lighting setups. So regardless if you are an outdoor natural light shooter, or you want to step up your studio productions, Clay's tutorial is going to have something for you.
Thanks again to everyone who submitted to this wedding critique and good luck to everyone entering this month's portrait critique!
For our March photography contest, we want to see your best wedding photos!
3rd place wins any tutorial from the Fstoppers Store.
2nd place wins a Loupedeck CT
1st place wins a 12-month group mentorship with Pye Jirsa
Prizes must be accepted by messaging Lee Morris within 30 days of the end of the contest.
1. Each contestant may submit up to three images
2. Images this month must be wedding-related
3. Each image submitted must include a description of the photograph. We want to know how it was taken, the lighting used, the gear used, and any post-processing you did to it. Images without a description will be disqualified.
4. Each photographer is only allowed to win one grand prize/year and one tutorial/year but they may still submit images to, and be featured in all 12 contests.
5. Everyone is encouraged to rate and comment on everyone's submitted photos but the highest-rated image will not necessarily win the grand prize.
While this contest is running we have discounted our wedding photography tutorial to its lowest price ever of $49. Watch the trailer below.
Featured image by Tímár Bence
Fri, 03/29/2024 - 13:00
This contest has ended.
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25 Comments
Yahoo! Thank you, Lee!
The privacy statement says almost nothing about usage rights for images posted to the site, other than that submitted images may be published to the general public. This leaves my original question largely unanswered, but at least the absence of any rights-grabbing language leaves the copyright holder’s rights intact.
On a more timely topic, does your site have mechanisms to prevent images from being scraped for AI training?
you mean training AI how NOT to do it?
Do we have to remove watermarking from the posting?
Congratulations to the winners!!
It was an honor to have been a part of the competition.
You don't have to but I find them a little annoying
Ok thank you! I hope I can just change the picture without deleting the entry.
Why is hardly anyone commenting on some of these amazing photos? I went to do so, and then realised there is only a few other comments. I find it a bit sad actually.
Hiiii, I won!!!!!! How do I claim my price????
Beautiful pictures 👍
As per the rules, "2. Images this month must be wedding-related". So if it is related, it can compete. Maybe next time we'll need stricter rules.
--- "why are there so many 'Bridal Photography' images"
It just feels that way because you spent your time whining and crying about them. Images with the bride only make up 13% of total submitted. So, no, there actually isn't that many.
Part of photographing a wedding (The entire event, not just the ceremony) also involves taking photos of the bride getting ready, candid photos of the family and wedding party, the groom and groomsmen, the bridal party, the reception, the rings, and, yes, even the bride by herself.
It's a special day for the people involved, so they normally want to record every bit of it in photos. Brides might also spend A LOT of money on their dresses, so they definitely want to get their money's worth and get some nice photos of the gown as well.
It's kind of package deal, so "Wedding Photography" encompasses more than just that moment when the bride and the groom say, "I do."
Do engagement photos count as "wedding related" or will they have their own separate category later?
The criteria say "wedding-related", so it is intended to leave some room for creative freedom and interpretation.
It's exciting to see how much cultural differences there are between e.g. Show European and US American wedding photos. Many of the photos here are far too heavily staged, edited and pompous for my taste. I am german.
Pompous? rich coming from someone who does nothing but headshots. I am not German!
The photos are pompous?? Oh, the irony.
100% agree