Critique the Community
Winter
Submit your best Winter themed photos for a chance to win a free Fstoppers tutorial
Congratulations to the winners!
Our "Winter" images have been rated by Lee, Patrick, and the rest of the community. The winners of the free Fstoppers tutorials are...
Congratulations to Piotr Skrzypiec for submitting a beautiful winter landscape which earned the highest average rating from the community and to Dave Holdham for being the randomly selected submission to win a tutorial. We will be in touch with both of you via your Fstoppers profiles to claim your prize.
If you didn't get your chance to be a part of this Critique, join the next one where we will be critiquing images images with an interesting color grade.
Rules & Prizes
This week's Critique the Community theme will be "Winter." Submit your best images now to receive feedback from the community and a chance to be critiqued by Lee and Patrick.
Between now and January 22nd at 11:45 PM EST, you can submit up to two of your best Winter themed images. We will be selecting a total of 20 images from the community to provide feedback to and will also be choosing two winners to receive a free Fstoppers original tutorial. The first winner will be decided by the highest community rated photo and the second will be chosen at random.
Once you've submitted your photos, scroll through the rest of the submissions to give honest ratings and feedback. The easiest way to rate the pictures is to use your keyboard's arrow and number keys. We also encourage you to leave helpful and positive feedback when you see an area where an image could be improved.
Tue, 01/22/2019 - 23:45
This contest has ended.
777 people have cast a total of 53,200 votes on 704 entries from 437 participants
Contest Submissions
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71 Comments
Piotr Skrzypiec had two fantastic entries- the top-rated and fifth-highest rated images! Lee was wondering if the second one was some kind of graphic art work. Maybe Piotr did something with the fog, but the church building is the same structure in both images. He took advantage of a great location to create two images that look quite different from each other, but are both excellent.
Is it normal to always get bad ratings on your photos on here? I'm trying to figure out if people don't like my photos or they're just very harsh critics...
I think the community is just harsh. In the last contest forexample the highest rated image got only 3 stars.
Yes it's normal. A good solid image usually gets around 2.5 stars. Some images that should be at the top because of a strong composition can get only 2 stars because it's not flashy enough. Ratings are biased towards overedited colorful stuff. If you've got a silky waterfall with a swapped sky mixing sunset and the milky way, you're golden.