Critique the Community
Dogs
Submit your best dog photo now for your chance to win a free Fstoppers tutorial
Congratulations to the winners!
With a recent friendly competition between Fstoppers and SLR Lounge, Lee had the chance to meet up with Pye Jirsa to critique 20 images of dogs. Apparently Pye has a soft spot for the furry little beasts.
Congratulations to the two winners of the free Fstoppers original tutorials. Marieke Kemp submitted the highest community rated eligible photo and Paul Henry was selected as the random entrant. We will be in touch with both of you to claim your prize.
If you'd like to participate in the next episode of Critique the Community, we will be honoring the recent competition between Lee and Pye and will be accepting male fitness photos.
Rules & Prizes
Pet photography can be a huge business and there are some among us who make their living photographing man's best friend. Do you think your pictures of dogs are good enough to be in a professional portfolio?
Between now and May 30, 2019, we want you to bring on the cuteness and submit up to two of your best pictures of dogs. We will be selecting a total of 20 images to give feedback to and will be giving two lucky entrants a free Fstoppers original tutorial. The first winner of the tutorial will be based on the highest average community rated image. The second winner will be chosen at random.
Once you've submitted your pictures, we invite you to scroll through the rest of the submissions and rate your fellow community members' images. The easiest way to do this is to use your number and arrow keys on a keyboard. In addition to providing numerical ratings, feel free to leave encouraging comments when you notice an area where an image could be improved.
Thu, 05/30/2019 - 23:45
This contest has ended.
938 people have cast a total of 82,882 votes on 892 entries from 596 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.
85 Comments
So I've never joined the "how they can rate better" conversations bc it won't change anyway and I haven't thought any other suggestions would fix the true problem.
Today I realized the spectrum of 2.1 or 2.9 means nothing to anyone, it's more what you say about the image. So since it's really a 2 or a 4... Just make it thumbs up and down for the vote. Then when you speak about it do better then "there's just something missing" or is "ok, nice color."
Actually critique, your mom did a great job... It's beautiful, it's framed well, the faces are just right there between the birds... BUT, it needs more polish. She was great! As someone who gets paid to provide CC AND has paid for CC, there is a defined protocol, and you got don't follow it. Your mom does, she sounds like an art professor in her delivery. It's an art in itself to provide feedback constructively.
I REALLY HOPE SHE IS ON MORE OFTEN. she also seems to appreciate technical and artistic ability equally. I feel you guys lean heavily technical, and just create a safe image that sells. It sales, but at low cost bc stock is available. It's artistic, technically executed that makes money. Innovative and high IQ
I'd be interested to see what Lee thinks of this dogs photos?
https://instagram.com/rubydooby_do?igshid=yb1p0qaixyxl
I guess the owner has been training the dog since a young age to take photos of it.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BtaBcxzHN_G/?igshid=1mwmxqwnigkyc
“I feel you guys lean heavily technical, and just create a safe image that sells.”
I’m thinking the same thing.
I mainly shoot photojournalism and street. I entered 2 shots. One was a straightforward holiday snapshot of my dogs that I liked. It got a moderate but respectable score.
The other was a bit harder-hitting: a picture of mine that’s been published in several magazines that tells more of a story. The composition and lighting are designed to make the viewer look first at the dog’s face surrounded by hands of people stroking it. Then you look down and see a big, fresh scar and realise we’re in the vet office after an operation.
It’s won all sorts of praise in other publications - but here it was rated at one-point something: a snapshot. I also got a comment from someone who seems to shoot mainly women lying down in bikinis, with their backs arched, saying “I see you trollin’“
What’s that all about?
Love the expression on the dogs face but don't love the photos.