Congratulations to the winners!

Wildlife photography can be a tricky genre to critique. It's tempting to be impressed by images of exotic animals but are the animals themselves a reason to rate a picture highly? Take a look through our selections of for the latest episode of Critique the Community and see if your ratings match up with Lee, Patrick, and the rest of the Fstoppers Community.

This episode we are giving away two Fstoppers original tutorials to members who submitted images. The first winner, with the highest rated image by the Fstoppers community, is Andres Moline with his incredibly detailed image of a spider. The randomly chosen winner is Jeffrey KILMER with his image of a cardinal on a snowy day. Congratulations to both of you. We'll be in touch through your Fstoppers profiles to receive a tutorial of your choice. 

If you missed your chance to be a part of this episode of Critique the Community, you can submit to the next one now. Lee will be recruiting Mike Kelley to give feedback to your best architectural images. Mike has become one of the worlds most well known architectural photographers. If you'd like to learn more about his techniques, we've produced several architectural photography tutorials with him. See if you can impress him by uploading your best architectural image HERE

Rules & Prizes

Wildlife photography can be one of the most difficult genres to capture well as photographers rarely have extensive control over each situation. Still, great skill is needed to capture incredible images of animals. Do you think your wildlife pictures stand out above your peers? 

Our next episode of Critique the Community will feature the wildlife images of Fstoppers' members. You can submit pictures of any kind of animal but please don't post pictures of your pets or shots you took of animals in captivity. The images should feature an animal in it's natural, wild habitat.

We will be selecting 20 images to give feedback to in the Fstoppers critique video and will be offering two Fstoppers original tutorials to two entrants. The first tutorial will be given to the individual with the highest average community rating given to an image. The second tutorial will go to a randomly selected entrant. 

Submit your images now and make sure to rate and comment the photos that have already been submitted. It's easier than ever now to scroll through the submissions and use the numbers keys on your keyboard to quickly rate all of them. 

Wed, 03/28/2018 - 23:30

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312 people have cast a total of 29,925 votes on 401 entries from 262 participants

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