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Landscape Photography
Win $1000 In Our Biggest Photo Contest Yet!
Congratulations to the winners!
The Fstoppers October photography contest results are in and we are giving away 20 free tutorials and $1000 cash.
Every single person whose work was featured in this video (unless you were disqualified) has won a free tutorial from the Fstoppers Store. Send me a private message and let me know which tutorial you'd like.
Big congratulations to Krzysztof Browko for winning the grand prize of $1,000. Send me a private message and let me know your Paypal account.
All prizes must be claimed within 30 days or they will be forfeited.
You can join our November portrait photography contest right now and win an Fstoppers tutorial, the iVanky 20-in-1 Dock, or the Tamron 70-180mm f/2.8 lens.
Rules & Prizes
Fstoppers' photography contests/critiques are back, and now the prizes are bigger than ever.
For this first contest in October, the theme is landscape/cityscape photography, and to launch this new format with a bang, all 20 of the photographs we pick to be featured in the critique will receive a free tutorial of their choosing from the Fstoppers Store. To make it even more exciting, one of those 20 photographers will also win $1000 cash.
Learn more about our new photography contests in the video below:
Contest Rules:
1. Each contestant may submit up to three images
2. Images this month must be related to landscape or cityscape photography
3. Each image submitted must include a description of the photograph. We want to know what it is, how it was taken, the gear used, and any post-processing you did to it. Images without a description will be disqualified.
4. Each photographer is only allowed to win one grand prize/year and one tutorial/year but they may still submit images to, and be featured in all 12 contests.
5. Everyone is encouraged to rate and comment on everyone's submitted photos but the highest-rated image will not necessarily win the grand prize.
The deadline for this contest is October 30th. Around November 1st we will review our favorite 20 images and announce the winner of the grand prize on the Fstoppers Youtube Channel.
Featured Image by Elia Locardi via Photographing the World Japan
Mon, 10/30/2023 - 23:45
This contest has ended.
658 people have cast a total of 62,808 votes on 2,063 entries from 901 participants
Contest Submissions
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106 Comments
There will be thousands of photos ....
I just watched the "critique" video...
I am the author of the wave image and wanted to chime in for a few clarification. First and foremost: I always accept critiques and try to learn from them when they are CRITIQUES.
I can't remember I ever released the raw file to you so I don't understand your claim that: "no, the raw file isn't anything like that". If you had a chance to see it (and I can provide it to you if you're interested) you'll be amazed to see that the whole image has been darkened and the contrast has been tweaked to get to the final result. So no, no "heavily photoshopped" highlights in the front of the image or anything like that.
Sorry guys but you seem to be talking without knowing. As per the image details I was trying to contextualize the image in the context of seasonal sea storms we have here in winter, something I've been following for the last 20+ years with much passion and personal and financial satisfaction. This image in particular has been widely published (BBC's "Blue Planet 2" book for example) and won many awards (the last one being the third place in the Nature.org contest a few days ago, despite the image has 10+ years under its belt...). Sorry guys, you just seem a bit jealous of the photo and I totally get it. Giovanni Allievi, www.allievi-photography.com
IG: @allieviphotography
Prints: https://giovanni-allievi.pixels.com/
Edit: yes, it is really dangerous despite you both seem to ridiculize the situation. I've lost a camera while doing this session (I had insurance and backup fortunately) and almost got carried away by the waves a few times duerng these 20+ years. By the way the shot was taken with a Canon 5d Mk2 equipped with a Canon 70-200 f4
Edit #2
The prints of the photo are available in one of the 100+ Yellow Korner worldwide galleries or online here https://www.yellowkorner.com/fr/p/rough-sea -12/56656.html
The largest print sells for $4380....
Hope so!
Giovanni, your work is amazing and I am honored to have photographs appear in the same space as yours. I don’t think that the critique was meant as a knock to your work given the few details they had to work with at the time. It is all too easy to misjudge great images with composited or heavily edited images in this modern AI age. What this reinforces, is that great images made by great photographers still matters and your image is a great image!