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Want to start the new year with a free tutorial from Fstoppers? All you have to do is help us choose our Photographer of the Year!
In 2020, we featured a photographer from our community each month, and now, we need you to help us choose the Photographer of the Year! To be entered to win a free Fstoppers tutorial, you simply need to choose your favorite photographer from the list here, vote in the poll at the bottom, and comment with what Fstoppers tutorial you would love to win and why! Be sure to both vote and comment to be entered. Voting closes January 8 at 11:59 P.M. EST.
Note: there is some nudity in the images below.
January: Mustafa Öztürk
February: Hananiah Aldrich
March: Mikkel Beiter
April: Hugo Valle
May: Teodora Dimitrova
June: Irina Jomir
July: Hanaa Turkistani
August: Emily Moore
September: Michele Buttazzoni
October: Kevin Morefield
November: Skyler Ewing
December: Danijel Turnšek
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Photographer of the Month Awards for 2021
Beginning in January, we'll be selecting a photographer of the month. Each month, we'll cull the best of the most recent photos in the community and select our favorite, featuring that photographer's work. At the end of the year, we'll select an overall winner from the 12 monthly winners, who will win a tutorial of their choice from the Fstoppers store. To qualify each month, you simply must have uploaded an image to your portfolio in the past 30 days. So, get out there, post some photos, and check out the work of the talented Fstoppers community! We're pleased to have you here.
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Some great great photos to choose from but for me the clear winner is Irina Jomir. If I was selected, I'd choose to improve with 'The Cinematic Headshot' tutorial.
You let to us the hard job to choose the best photographer and gosh, it was hard. Following the tendencies to improve our photograph skills, I think the best pick for me is the "Mike Kelley's Ultimate Sky Library". During this hard time, most of us don't have nice landscapes to shot, so modifie and improve environments are our best option.
Voted for Teodora Dimitrova, love her work. I would like Peter Hurley's Illuminating the face please...!
Amazing photographers, good luck to you all!
I would like to get the "Introduction to video" course since I want to start off filming documentary and different type of filmographies but I don't quite know where to start.
All of the pictures are beautiful to look at. lots of inspiration for new idea's
if I am picked, I would like to learn more about portraits "Perfecting the Headshot With Peter Hurley"
All great photographers! If chosen id like to take photographing the world 1!
Great selection of photographers ... makes for a tough decision!
I'd love Mike Kelly’s ‘Where Art Meets Architecture Part 1’ tutorial.
Perfecting the Headshot
With Peter Hurley
Some good options. Lot of macro and conceptual work. I loved someone's work however the images were overly retouched which was a shame as it took away from the images.
I'd love The Fundamentals of Fashion Photography With Shavonne Wong as I feel this is a very relevant tutorial to my work and especially because of the setup. Landing in a new place and having to put an entire team together holds as much value as shooting on set. I'd love to see more of the Art of Production covered more in future tutorials as this is a skill set a lot of working photographers need to grow to be successful.
As others have been saying, this is a really diverse and excellent set of photos. A tough choice indeed. I would choose one of the PTW. I have 1&2 and really enjoyed both.
I would have to pick 'Fashion and Editorial Portrait Photography' if I win. Vote button didn't work, i want to vote for Irina.
Very difficult choice but I voted for Mustafa. His images are crisp and clean and highlight the world at a level most people don't notice. I would enjoy the Photographing the world 4 tutorial.
Tough choice to make, so many great photos...
I would choose Photographing the World 4
Photography 101
Not usually a fan of this genre but the colors, shapes and forms of Mustafa Öztürk's portfoilio are unique.
Real Money Monte would be my pick
Fashion and Editorial Portrait Photography by Clay Cook to level up my portraits in my documentary and journalism work.
Would love to win Photographing the World 1. Landscape is my personal favourite of genre's to photograph so always happy to learn how to get the most out of it
All exceptional photographers! If chosen, I'd choose Photographing the World 3. My plans once travel opens up is to travel internationally extensively and pursue my dreams of being a cityscape travel photographer. Just let me get on a plane and I'm off!
Like all of the choices. If I am selected I would like Photographing the World 1. My landscapes need some help since I retire this year and will spend more time with my camera and computer.
As I am a Big fan of Macro photography, I chose Mustafa from January, although all the participants are amazing.
If I am the winner, I would really like: Mastering Macro Photography The Complete Shooting and Editing Tutorial
Well it was tough decision, took me few minutes to choose which photographer will be my favorite, If by any chance I will win a tutorial,I believe I will want the "Introduction to Video
A Photographer's Guide to Filmmaking". Maybe it will define the 2021 year as the year I'm starting to learn video as fstoppers mentioned it as a must. Maybe it will open my eyes to create different things than what i used to. Maybe it add more creativity to my world of photography.
Wow, so many great photos it was a difficult choice. If chosen, I would like to have The Fundamentals of Fashion Photography tutorial. I believe this would help the most with my type of photography, which I describe as Staged, Themed Shoots.
Would love Photographing the World 4
Please give the free tutorial to one of the others. I just wanted to hop in and say it's such an honor to be featured among these amazing photographers!
All fantastic photographers!
I would love the Photographing the World 4 tutorial, I love landscape photography and want to learn more.
So many great options! I’d like the Lighting 101. I’m an amateur photographer. I want to improve my understanding of lighting.
My pick is for Mustafa Öztürk,
Insanely talented
Woooow way to make it easy lol. Every one listed here is amazing.
The Fundamentals Of Fashion Photography
Just voted.
Nice contestants this year
All excellent photographers, and it is more a matter of personal preference of a photography genre, than the photographic mastery. My choice is Mikkel Beiter.
I would choose The Hero Shot tutorial, to help my wife in selling her natural cosmetic products.
Photographing the World 4, because I enjoy landscape photography and want to improve.
They are all pretty amazing but for whatever reason I am liking the Emily Moor collection perhaps as consistency?
If chosen, I’d like the Perfecting the Headshot one because I’m just getting into photographing people and I’m very interested in his techniques.
Absolutely beautiful images. Amazing skills on show. Just for any beginners almost all images are processed within an inch of their lives. People can be frustrated as beginners not to get those sort of colours in their images. Very skillfully done. I'd love to see the raw images of each one to compare the before and after. It's painstaking and time consuming work but very artistic in the end.
Mastering Macro Photography The Complete Shooting and Editing Tutorial With Andres Moline
Awesome photographers, all of them, was a hard choice!!
If chosen, I would really love "The Fundamentals of Fashion Photography" with Shavonne Wong. :)
Id love to get Peter Hurleys Illuminating the face tut
Really beautiful photos! I would like to win photographing the world one, because I would like to learn more about landscape post processing and my trip to Iceland was just cancelled due to Covid and so I could be virtually there.
I would really want to know more and dive deeper into the architectural photography. It is a domain I have less knowledge and more information can be welcoming.
This is the reason i would choose the Where Art Meets Architecture 2 tutorial
I really like Peter Hurley, so I'd take the Perfecting the Headshot.
Not an easy pick. Lot's of great work.
Peter Hurley - Perfecting the Headshot could help me perfecting my business portraiture.
Voted for Hugo. Would love the Mastering Macro Photography tohelp me better my macro-game! :)
I’d like to win Fashion and Editorial Portrait Photography with Clay Cook to learn everything about his great techniques.