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Minimal Photoshop. Water has many different moods, and whether it takes the form of a wild, winding river or a perfectly still lake, it can make a landscape come alive. We want to see how you’ve captured lakes or rivers in your photography - BUT, please note that this is a “minimal Photoshop” challenge! We want to see how good you are at taking photographs, not how good you are at processing them. Use of Photoshop or Lightroom or other software is not prohibited, but it should be kept to a minimum, and submitted images should faithfully represent the scene that they captured.
Please click on 'The brief in detail' tab to read our guidelines for submission.
Both the expert's winner (chosen by Casey McCallister) and the crowd's winner with receive a copy of Landscape Photographer of the Year: Collection 9 (AA) by Charlie Waite.
The brief in detail
- Cropping is allowed
- Dodging and burning is allowed, but please don’t overdo it
- Adjusting contrast and brightness is also allowed, but again, don’t overdo it
- A minimal amount of sharpening is allowed
- No colour tinting, adjusting of colours, or application of software filters
- Photos must be one image, and can’t include any elements from any other images
- Nothing should be added or cloned out of the image
- No use of HDR
- No black and white images
Prize details
Both the expert's winner (chosen by Casey McCallister) and the crowd's winner with receive a copy of Landscape Photographer of the Year: Collection 9 (AA) by Charlie Waite. The highest placed entries will appear on Photocrowd's 'Best images' page and social media channels.
How it works
Every photo submitted will be available for the crowd to rate once the submissions period has ended. You can see all the images uploaded to a contest, but will need to rate them to see how they’re ranked once the rating period begins.
Some contests on Photocrowd also have a judge. After the submission period closes the judge chooses their favourite images and writes some image reviews. The crowd and judge results will be announced on the same day.
- Entries closed
- 10 February 2016
- Rating
- 10 February 2016 to 19 February 2016
- Winners announced
- 19 February 2016
For a more detailed explanation of how rating works, see our FAQs