Critique the Community
Street Photography
Submit your best street photo for a chance to win a free Fstoppers tutorial."
Congratulations to the winners!
We had some incredible street photography submissions this week and Lee was more generous with his ratings than he's ever been.
Congratulations to Jonäs Groan for his submission that earned the highest community average rating and to Scott Firestone for being the randomly selected winner of a free Fstoppers original tutorial. We will be in touch with both of you via your Fstoppers profiles to claim your prize.
If you missed your chance to participate in this week's episode, we invite you to participate in next week's with your "unedited photos." Submit your pictures HERE.
Rules & Prizes
Have you shot any street photography? We invite you to join the next episode of Critique the Community and submit two of your best street photography shots for feedback and the chance to win one of two Fstoppers tutorials.Although Lee and Patrick don't have much experience with street photography, they do have an eye for quality photos. If you'd like to receive the feedback of Lee and Patrick and your peers here in the Fstoppers community, simply upload up to two of your best street photos before December 18th, 2018 at 11:45 PM EST. We will select a total of 20 images to provide feedback to. The image with the highest average community rating will receive a free tutorial as will a randomly selected entrant.
Once you've uploaded your images, we invite you scroll through the photos submitted by other members and give them ratings and helpful feedback. The easiest way to do this is by using the arrow pad and number keys on your keyboard. Please keep comments helpful and encouraging.
Tue, 12/18/2018 - 23:45
This contest has ended.
650 people have cast a total of 49,521 votes on 777 entries from 469 participants
Contest Submissions
Click on the thumbnails below to comment and rate each image.
Click here to learn about the Fstoppers rating system and what each star value means.
132 Comments
There is something insanely raw and fun about street photography and though it is hard to want to submit to the critical review of this community, thank you to everyone who puts forward your best shots to be savagely critiqued. I promise to offer a thought on each one before casting a vote. Good luck to all of you.
Alright alright, thanks guys! Thank you for critique and thanks the community for voting! 🥃🥃
And yes, it’s the street shot, I suppose we can’t only speak of a ground level discussing the «street» photography.
And yes, the shot is (or at least should) telling the story: guy on his smoke break (I suppose) thinks about aimlessness of his office life on the balcony while the streetlight on the foreground is clearly indicating «hey, bud, don’t matter how you trying it’s all will be inevitably covered in the birdshit». ‘s all good, man. End of story. 🥃🥃
Happy upcoming 2019, chaps!
It's a bunch of jealous people who think their crap doesn't stink. It's sad really.
Telling a story makes a better shot. Even if finding a good spot and waiting until someone walks by can make a nice photo, it's always better with a story. At least, wait until somebody cool walks by. I was disappointed with my score, but I guess photojournalism didn't qualify for the contest?
True, but you also have a lot of very average material... What makes street photography great is also the reason for which we have so many average results, you just need a camera and a street to do it :) but look at many at the images posted, people standing in the street, grabbing a phone, walking by.... where are the stories? Composition? Light and shadows? Situations? All important ingredients for a good picture, many look like the camera just fired.
Reminds me of the stories by Mathieu Bitton about his interactions with Miles Davis. But yes, you’re absolutely right. What for photojournalism, guess the scores mostly depends on some unpredictable mass reaction. You could never predict a crowd.