Run a photo competition from first entry to final placement.
Loupe handles the whole competition: collecting entries from your photographers, running two rounds of judging, and turning the result into standings you can publish and announce.
Two-phase judging · Metadata stripped on upload · Full audit trail
Collect the entries
Share one entry link and let photographers sign in with an emailed code and upload themselves — or import contacts and photos in bulk and upload on their behalf. Every image is processed server-side: EXIF stripped, thumbnail generated.
Judge in two phases
Phase 1 judges rate, label and shortlist the entries down to a set of finalists. Phase 2 jurors score those finalists. Each phase opens and closes on your word, and only submitted work counts toward the outcome.
Publish the results
Standings are computed with your points table and tie-break rule, ready to review as a table or a full-screen showcase, export as a file, and announce by email.
Everything a competition actually needs
The unglamorous parts included — quotas, deadlines, approvals, privacy and a record of who did what.
Passwordless entry
Photographers get a six-digit code by email — no account to create, no password to forget. Public forms are bot-checked.
Bulk import
Bring in a photographer list from CSV and a shoot from a ZIP, matched up and attributed in one pass.
Review queue
Self-uploads land as submitted and wait for approval. Work the queue from the keyboard: approve, reject, flag identity, delete.
Ratings, picks and labels
Judges rate on your scale, flag picks, and apply color labels — a familiar lightbox workflow, kept private per judge.
Two shortlisting modes
Let judges claim photos against per-category quotas, or let their independent ratings aggregate into the shortlist.
Deadlines and quotas
A hard submission deadline plus per-category entry limits, enforced at upload time rather than cleaned up afterwards.
Standings and export
Points tables, tie-break rules, a presentation view for the awards night, and an export when the board wants the numbers.
Roles, not logins
Admin, judge, juror and photographer access is checked at the edge, again in each area, and again in the queries behind them.
Audit trail
Who approved, who promoted, who changed a role — recorded as it happens and readable from the admin area.
Four stages, in order
- 1
Set it up
Create the competition, define categories and entry limits, pick the judging mode and scale, and assign your judges and jurors.
- 2
Gather entries
Send the entry link to your photographers, or upload for them. Self-uploads queue for review so nothing unvetted reaches judging.
- 3
Run Phase 1
Judges work through the approved entries, rating and shortlisting, then submit. The finalists are decided the moment the phase closes.
- 4
Run Phase 2
Jurors score the finalists only. Standings, placements and winners come out the other side — ready to publish and announce.
One app, three kinds of people
For organizers
One place to run the whole thing: entries, people, phases, results. No spreadsheets passed around by email, no lost attachments, and a record of every decision.
For photographers
Follow a link, get a code, upload. Your entries are stripped of location and camera metadata before anyone sees them, and you can watch how far each photo gets.
For judges and jurors
A focused view of the photos you are meant to see, when you are meant to see them — with keyboard-driven rating and a clear submit step.
Ready to enter?
Organizers, judges and jurors sign in with an email and password. Photographers open the entry link for the competition they were invited to.