GuruShots: Winning images from the latest Mostly Black photo challenge

GuruShots - Mostly Black
(Image credit: Juha Hietanen - Norway)

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. 

The latest Mostly Black Challenge is back, and for this sought-after competition, we wanted you to dive into the shadows and show us your best low-key exposures, that predominantly feature the colour black. With only hints of white in sight, we dare you to capture the contrasts. 

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 Photography Week Magazine, and we're pleased to showcase these images below, along with the rest of the top-featured photographs in the gallery that follows. Also, check out GuruShots’ newest app AI Art Master to compete against others with your own AI-generated images.

Top Photographer (Image credit: Unamed (Cachedigga) - Germany)

Top Photo (Image credit: Sanja Stojanovic - Serbia)

Guru's Top Pick (Image credit: Shuki Laufer - Israel)

#4 (Image credit: Jan Wolny - Poland)

#5 (Image credit: Pavlína Rolincová - Czechia)

#6 (Image credit: Juha Hietanen - Norway)

#7 (Image credit: Nicolas Drapier - France)

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

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

#10 (Image credit: Will - United States)

#11 (Image credit: Daiva Ališauskienė - Lithuania)

#12 (Image credit: Ian McC - Canada)

#13 (Image credit: Adam Childs - United States)

#14 (Image credit: Maggie - Portugal)

#15 (Image credit: Stephen Day - United States)

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

#17 (Image credit: Teri Kelly - Australia)

#18 (Image credit: Serena Vachon - United States)

#19 (Image credit: Miguel (Miguel The Lion) - Germany)

#20 (Image credit: Riki Ambriz - United States)

#21 (Image credit: Stephen Patterson - Great Britain (UK))

#22 (Image credit: Gary Cox - United Kingdom)

#23 (Image credit: Jo Kendrick - United Kingdom)

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.

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