GuruShots: Winning images from the latest Mostly Black challenge

GuruShots - Mostly Black November 2024.

One of the greatest photo games you will ever play, GuruShots is a super fun and competitive online platform (and app) that provides photographers with not only a place to showcase their images, but a chance to gain unmatched global exposure for their work and bag themselves some prizes and bragging rights in the process.

There's no harm in a little friendly competition, and Gurushots will allow you to compete in epic challenges and daily battles against millions of photographers worldwide, and you can even become part of a team, too, and take on other groups together while sharing skills and connecting with other photographers.

The idea of the game is to gradually increase your ranking from a Newbie to a Master, and then finally achieve the ultimate status of becoming a Guru. There are opportunities for your work to be exhibited in a physical gallery, published in magazines, and of course - be featured here on Digital Camera World too.

With the latest Mostly Black Challenge, we wanted you to highlight the power of dark and light, by filling the frame with mostly black as your colour palette, while making use of highlights and composition to frame your shot. Think stark silhouettes, city lights in shadows, or elude mystery with low-key portraits.

It's fascinating to see how other photographers might interpret a photo theme differently from you. The idea of the timed challenges is to enter images that not only fit the brief but are also unique and might give you enough of an edge to earn a Guru Pick from the creator of the challenge and votes from other players.

Winners can be in with the chance to receive prizes from GuruShots' sponsors such as Adorama, Kodak, Lowepro, and Lensbaby. The highest-ranked images from this challenge will be published in PhotoPlus Magazine, and we're pleased to showcase these images below, along with the rest of the top-featured photographs in the gallery that follows.

Top Photographer (Image credit: Esme Estrada - Mexico)

Top Photo (Image credit: Julien Serarre - Mexico)

Guru's Top Pick (Image credit: Adam Stubbe -United States)

#4 (Image credit: cachedigga - Germany)

#5 (Image credit: Roy Egloff - Switzerland)

#6 (Image credit: Luca Sharabidze - United States)

#7 (Image credit: Valdis Kundziņš - Latvia)

#8 (Image credit: Will’s Beautiful World - United States)

#9 (Image credit: Sanja B - Bosnia and Herzegovina)

#10 (Image credit: Daiva Ališauskienė - Lithuania)

#11 (Image credit: Mahmoud Ahmed - Egypt)

#12 (Image credit: Ziao Zi Mar - Canada)

#13 (Image credit: Eileen Roach - United States)

#14 (Image credit: Sylvain Perrier - Canada)

#15 (Image credit: Bryony Herrod-Taylor - United Kingdom)

#16 (Image credit: Debbie Squier-Bernst - Canada)

#17 (Image credit: Efraín Garcia Argumedo - Mexico )

#18 (Image credit: Péter Lehóczky - Hungary)

#19 (Image credit: Iwona Suwala - Poland)

#20 (Image credit: Bobby C. Seijas - United States)

#21 (Image credit: Lynne Harpur - New Zealand)

#22 (Image credit: Pat Belsey - Great Britain (UK))

#23 (Image credit: Ryan Gonyea - United States)

Here are the remaining images from the top entries in GuruShots' Mostly Black contest – click on the arrows to scroll through the full gallery of entries.

To find out more about GuruShots, and to sign up and take part in the next exciting challenge, visit www.gurushots.com.