Critique the Community
This was Difficult!
Your Most Complicated Photoshoot
Congratulations to the winners!
This month we critiqued the most difficult photos the Fstoppers community has ever taken. These shots are amazing.
This month, each of the three winners gets a free tutorial from the Fstoppers Store. If you won, send me a private message and let me know which tutorial you want.
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1st Place
2nd Place
3rd Place
Rules & Prizes
Welcome to the February 2025 Critique the Community Contest! For this contest and critique we wanted to switch up the theme a bit by asking you to submit the most difficult and challenging images you've ever taken. Maybe the shoot was difficult because of the time constraint or because of the talent was high maintenance. Perhaps you decided to build an elaborate set from scratch or it required a specific weather or lighting event that doesn't happen often. No matter what the reason, we want to see and HEAR about your most complicated, nearly disastrous, but successful photo sessions you've ever been a part of capturing.
Rules
- This contest is 100% free to join
- Each photographer may submit up to 3 images
- Each photograph must include a description that includes details about how the photograph was taken, what post processing was done to it, where it was taken, and what challenges you faced taking the image. Simply writing a single sentence that doesn't explain much of anything will disqualify you from being chosen!
- Each image MUST explain why the image was difficult to capture and why you consider it one of your most challenging shoots ever.
Because this theme is based on how difficult the photo was to capture, you can submit images from any genre of photography whether that be landscapes, product and commercial, portraits, composite work, or conceptual and fine art photography. Any type of photography is allowed in this contest.
Prizes
For this contest, each of our 3 favorite photographs will receive a free Fstoppers Photography Tutorial from Fstoppers.com/store.
We are excited to see your most "complicated" photographs and look forward to viewing all your submissions!
Featured image taken by the incredible Jan Gonzales
Fri, 02/28/2025 - 22:45
This contest has ended.
192 people have cast a total of 7,310 votes on 247 entries from 147 participants
Contest Submissions
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32 Comments
That is the second time my tiger photography has featured on a fstoppers "critique the community" and the first time I have won anything.
Firstly, thank you for the 2nd prize. How do I send you a personal message?
Secondly, both times you reviewed my images, you have felt that they may have been taken in a zoo. Let me assure you that both times they have been taken in the wild.
Finally, the dirt track that seemed to put you off is for the safari vehicles to use and because they are kinder on the paws of the tigers they do walk some considerable distances on these dirt tracks.
Oh… the paradox of a “most difficult and challenging” competition theme, coupled with the large majority of scores typically in the “number 2 - needs work” range. I can already hear the community outrage: "You mean, I spent all that time on a really difficult photograph, overcoming unprecedented obstacles, only for you to tell me it needs more work? You can’t be serious!"
It'll be interesting to see what the community thinks is a snapshot in this challenge.
Yeah this is one where we are asking you not to post your best images but instead your most difficult images...so I suspect there will be much lower ratings than usual. My most difficult photographs are rarely my favorites so this should be interesting.