Lee Morris and Mike Kelley believe they can predict the quality of your photos by the quality of your logo. We want to test that theory.
This episode will offer a fresh angle to Critique the Community. While it's common for photographers to put their images out for critique, it's rarer to get feedback on your branding and marketing. Lee and Mike want to rate your logos alongside your photos. It's their belief that photographers with highly rated images will have a high quality logo on it. In contrast, they expect photographers with lowly rated images to have poor logos.
If you want to participate and have your logo critiqued, upload your favorite photo with your logo somewhere on the image. When we film the video, Lee and Mike will see the logo before they see your image but they will a rating to give both and then compare the results.
Whether you're uploading your image or not, we want to hear your thoughts on the best logo/photo combination. It's easy to quickly scroll through and rate the images by using your arrow and number keys. If if you see an image and logo that are both high quality, rate them that way. If one is poor and the other is great, give the submission a mid-range rating.
Of the submissions, the highest rated photo/logo combination will win a free Fstoppers tutorial. We will also pick one entrant at random and give away a second tutorial.
That's a great idea! I look forward to seeing your assessment of both the logos and the images.
I was hoping you'd do this. I'm still in the initial start up phase and have yet to design a logo.
Btw. I'm curating a compilation of logos that make use of apertures (most are photography logos). I've already collected more than 250 masterpieces. 😏
www.blendenlogos.de
My Logo Is also inspired by the aperture of 18-55mm lens :)
Cool concept :) I had some similar though some time ago and I'm glad you've started a test like that! Cheers!
Is the deadline 9:45 PM EDT?
it should display in your local time, if you hover over the deadline, it gives the time in GMT, so what you see should be your local time.
OK, thanks
FYI if your logo is super small like this one https://fstoppers.com/entry/262013 you will not be chosen for the critique.
That's okay, however, I am not gonna change the subtle way I do my watermarks just for this.
Thanks anyway. Have fun rating the images :)
You understand the point of this right? If we can't see your logo how can we critique it?
Of course I do. The logo is visible, its just a little subtle. I wanted to give it a shot. But I understand that this might not be good for the video quality, if you have to zoom in on the logo.
As I said before, thats alright.
Best wishes :)
I’m very curious if people are voting based on the logo or the photo. I’m seeing a lot of lower ratings on what I think are great images. I know it’s supposed be on both, but a great image is still a great image if the logo doesn’t interfere with it. 🤔
I actually started with rating the logo's first.
Then I started again and rated the images.
And of the first 10 I had to re rate 2. Looking forward to the video here.
I hope people are voting on the logo this time. If they're not, they're either stupid, dishonest, or blind. I voted on the photo because it sounded like the logo/watermark was more of a contest within the contest for Lee. Almost every single time, my vote was substantially higher than the average for that photo.
Am I misreading this, or are you contradicting yourself by saying you hope people are voting on the logos, and then saying that you are voting on the photos?
Edit: Nevermind, I was misreading it. You are hoping that the low ratings are based on logo votes, not photo votes.
I apologize, I worded that poorly. You are correct, I hope the low scores are an indication of people voting on the logos, not the photos. A LOT of the photos are quite a bit better than their score.
We weren’t really clear about that so I’m sure the community ratings will be all out of whack for this one.
Where I love logo's I hate them as a watermark in photos. You take a photo so people can see your work and enjoy it. Yes it can be pirated, yes others can print it, no that's not a bad thing.
You shot the photo to be seen. To show the world the way you saw it at that moment. To capture that light and freeze it in time. Modern tools will help you find your photo's online and take credit for them and battle abuse.
I can imagine you want your logo in a Fstoppers video, but they show the rating and who tool it anyway. So let this competition be the last time we ever put them in. For photography's sake.
I put a small subtle logo on my posted photos, simply as an ID. I don't expect them to protect any photos, as they are easy to remove by someone with the know-how.
Correct me if I’m wrong but the whole idea is to rate the logos based on their design, originality, and uniqueness, right? The image itself should have nothing to do with the rating.
That's not how I understood it at all, but I could also be completely wrong. I thought the logo part of the contest was for Lee to see if you could judge the quality of the photographer based off their logo. I still voted on all the photos based on the merit of the photo.
I must be wrong then...
Ha! We might both be wrong. There is always too much confusion with these contests...
Yeah, and I'm even more confused after having read the comments.
I'm not referring to you guys' comments, just the lack of clarification from the FS crew.
Just my opinion. The way I read the contest is, “put your logo/watermark (I have both) on your best photo.” The plan is to see if a good logo coincides with a good photo, and vice versa, bad logo, bad photo. So I think in essence we are voting on both.
I understood it to be that Lee and Mike were going to see if they could predict the quality of a shot by the photog's logo. Since I'm not really interested in logos I was voting on the photos, but now I think you're probably right.
Lol, this is social media. None of us are either right or wrong. It’s just something to do while I drink my morning coffee 😎. I am starting to think I picked the wrong contest for my first time posting. Although the photo I entered in this one is fairing much better than the one I put up in the wedding portrait contest. Those guys are ruthless!
I agree, I think this was the wrong one for me to start with haha
The contest description says logo/Photo combination it is pretty clear that it is not just the logo otherwise why submit a picture and not just a logo?
It is our belief that if you are a well rounded artist then any aspect of your work (photography or logo) should translate that. Mastering a widely available electronic has sadly become a norm of capturing moments nowadays.
This is my first time entering a photography contest, looking forward to seeing others work as well, best of luck to everyone!
Was it supposed to be your logo that you use in your marketing or your watermark? In some of your videos with Mike Kelley you talked about this and referred to watermark and not your logo. Logo can be different than watermark. I have a colorful logo which I used in this contest but my watermark is different. For instance it’s black and white. :) anyways nice to take part of this contest.
I did the same thing and I'm sure if chosen i will be picked apart for it lol
Damn i missed entry! :(
Well, if you had to miss one, this was a good choice. 😉