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