Critique the Community: Your Best Images of 2024

Congratulations to the winners!

In this critique, all twelve of the photographers we featured win both an Fstoppers Tutorial, and a bottle of Lee's hot sauce, Oliveum. (if you live in the USA). You can join the next contest at Fstoppers.com/contests

Diego Manrique Diez

Teemu Andreas

Zoran Pucarevic

Michael Bottari

Melody Mellinger

Daniel Viñé

kaim merali

Patrick Khachfe

Jared Carpenter

Richard Johnson

marius van dyk

Rules & Prizes

For the final photography contest of the year, we want to see your best images taken in 2024! There isn't going to be a specific genre for our December contest so anything goes as long as it's one of your favorite or most successful images of the year. Of course it must have been taken or published for the first time in 2024.

Rules

This contest is 100% free to join
Each photographer may submit up to 3 images
Each photograph must include a small description that includes details about how the photograph was taken, what post processing was done to it, where it was taken, and why it was your best image taken in 2024. Simply writing a single sentence that doesn't explain much of anything will disqualify you from being chosen!
These images must have been taken or published for the first time in 2024

Prizes

Fstoppers is excited to be giving away some amazing photography related gear for each of these critique the community contests. For December's critique we are mixing it up a little bit.

All Picked Submissions will Received the Follow Prizes!

Amber liquid in a dark-labeled bottle surrounded by dynamic golden sparks and splashing liquid against a dark background.

To celebrate the launch of Lee Morris's hot sauce, each image featured in the next Critique the Community will receive a free bottle of Oliveum Hot Sauce. For anyone who has followed Fstoppers over the last few years, you have probably heard the story of Lee's journey into the hot sauce world. Today marks the first time the public can purchase a smaller, more affordable 3.3 oz bottle.

Collage of photography tutorial course thumbnails covering various techniques and subjects.

Also, every photograph featured in the next Critique the Community will also receive a free Fstoppers Photography Tutorial from Fstoppers.com/store.

We are excited to see some of the best images created by the Fstoppers Community and we look forward to heading into the new year with a bang!

Featured image taken by the incredible Richard Johnson

Submission Deadline: Mon, 12/30/2024 - 11:45

This contest has ended.

210 people have cast a total of 12,650 votes on 418 entries from 197 participants

23 Comments

Tom Reichner December 30, 2024 - 5:09 pm

Robert koernke

I agree. It seems ridiculous to call it a "Best of 2024" contest and then allow images that were not taken in 2024 and have them compete against images that were taken in 2024.

Federico Weyland December 11, 2024 - 11:48 am

Patrick Hall

Great. Thanks.

Ed Burns December 11, 2024 - 1:45 pm

Patrick Hall

Wait... are you saying that the photos

A) have NEVER been posted before on any sites or social media?

B) Were shot between January 1st, 2024 and December 30th, 2024

C) that the photo has never been posted before, regardless of what year it was take?

Paul Kister December 11, 2024 - 3:08 pm

Ed Burns [Edited]

Oooor ... All of the ABOVE! ;)

marius van dyk January 6, 2025 - 10:59 am

thank you for selecting the A2A shot. cam/lens detail :
R5
RF24-70 f2.8 @ 70mm · f/8 · 1/80 · ISO 160
slow the shutter bursts needed to get a fuller prop blur yet sharp detail for the rest. 1/30 would be better but vibrations in skyvan don't help

Mohd Ezal December 11, 2024 - 11:46 pm

thanks 2024! lot of great things and achievement in this year. more to come!!!

Jared Carpenter January 6, 2025 - 7:04 pm

Thanks for choosing my image (or I should be thanking the community for voting my photo the highest)! I know astrophotography isn't for everyone, but it works for me. The perfect balance of creativity when it comes to editing and technical details when it comes to photographing. The best part is that I can do it while I sleep. I'm looking forward to a Mike Kelley tutorial and hot sauce.

Justin Manders December 12, 2024 - 6:25 am

I'm curious to know what Lee's and Patrick's best photos are of 2024.

Frank Ginn December 16, 2024 - 12:37 pm

Anyone else struggling trying to pick their favorite/best images to enter?
What a great year 2024 has been for photography, especially for me as an amatuer! Subjects ranging from the Great American Eclipse of 2024, first time to see and photograph the Northern Lights, 3 week Alaskan Adventure, Antelope Canyon, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS and a myriad of Zoo Animals.So many highlights I'm sure I'm not naming all of them!
For me this is a difficult task to narrow it down to 3, even if they are amatuer images, they are special to me - perhaps that is why we call it a "passion"!

Zoran Pucarevic January 7, 2025 - 2:29 am

Thanks for choosing my image, I'm so proud

Thomas Skjeggedal December 16, 2024 - 12:57 pm

Frank Ginn

I haven't been to that many great locations, but I still really struggled to decide what I should enter! I think I deleted and uploaded other photos 3 or 4 times, so now I'm stuck with the 3 I finally ended up with :P

PEDRO Hayward December 16, 2024 - 1:34 pm

Frank Ginn

With you on that one Frank. You certainly get around by the way! How much should we be influenced by the star ratings that others give us I wonder? Do you know what I like most about this months contest over all the others? It is that every entry fits the subject (theme), whereas SO OFTEN when watching the judging videos I say to myself "WHAT HAS THAT PHOTO GOT TO DO WITH THE SET SUBJECT?"