Best of Hawaii – You decide

Written on December 13, 2009 Posted in Landscapes, news


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In the past I’ve stated that there are 3 areas in the process of creating a good end result in photography.

  • 1. Take good pictures
  • 2. Pick good pictures
  • 3. Edit good pictures

Help with #2

Sometimes #2 can be the hardest
(assuming the talent for #1 and #3 has been well instilled in the photographer)

So today I enlist your services, a sort of crowd sourcing.

Hawaii Pictures Gallery

I took 13,000+ pics in Hawaii
I quickly skimmed through them (not looking at every picture) and got it down to 600
I then went through each one and picked my favorite 250
I then went through again and picked my favoriter 129
I posted them HERE

All 250 are there in chronological order in 2 sets – with my prefered set of 129 coming first
There is another gallery with all 250 completely chronological HERE

You can go to either gallery to pick

Your Goal

The goal is hard but I will make it worth it.
I’ve done things like this in the past and people have said it was fun.

Your top 20 pictures

The top 10 should be rated 1 through 10
The last 10 are like honorable mention and do not need to be rated.

It should be a simple list
Copy paste the image file name

Example
#1 –  001_DSC3411 (You can shorten it to the last 4 digits …3411)
#2 – 013_DSC4618
#HM/11 – 011_DSC4411

The Reward

A free 8×10 of your #1 pick – For pickup at office = no shipping cost for you

Or $35 off an order towards a print of your choice (in this gallery) for use towards a larger size (or 8×10). -
You can have it shipped anywhere, obviously since you’re making the order.
This will be a coupon code you input upon checkout from smugmug

In the past it was just for fun and people did it anyway, but I kinda want to give out free 8×10’s I think it would be fun.

Having never done this before I reserve the right to change this at any time or limit amount of people.
If any type of change would upset you I’d suggest not doing it.

WHY

I want to do some prints of these pictures but I certainly don’t want to print all 100+
If one day I want to do fine art print sales or a gallery – I want to know which ones are most popular.

Also it’s a good way for you all to see what I’ve done… so my hundreds of hours of work in Hawaii is not for naught.

And hey if someone orders an expensive 30×40 mounted on canvas then that could pay for the next trip!
I also think it would be fun to have more of my work in your homes… I want to infiltrate your houses. mwahaha

Some I happen to like

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 125_DSC2639

(Above) definite faves

(Below) one of these two

 079_DSC0909 080_DSC0914

  • One of the outrigger canoe pictures… not sure which one.
  • There’s a ton of moving water pics… not sure which one.
  • One of the sailboat pics … again not sure which one.
  • #26 or 27
  • #28 or 29
  • one of the 56-62
  • One of the sunset pictures found in 72-78
  • one of the surfer pics 112-118
  • one of the surfer pics 127-129

(BELOW) others I bet will make the cut

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  • 8 Comments

Cari Ferrell: Here's my favorites (it was hard to pick! I changed the order multiple times! You're just too good!!): #1- 091_DSC2033 #2- 055_DSC9231 #3- 001_DSC3411 #4- 023Hawaii-0534_5683 #5- 125_DSC2639 #6- 002_3S08465 #7- 079_DSC0909 #8- 006_3S08641 #9- 069_DSC0372 #10- 228_DSC2085 HM: 019_3S09567 015_DSC4704 208_DSC0289 220_3S01467 044_DSC8771 065_DSC9987 026Hawaii-1266_6124 028Hawaii-1395_6253 038_DSC8348 040_3S00899

Eric Quinney: Wow this was way harder then I expected. Top Ten 4618 8041 0879 2613 2639 8477 1467 2085 8641 2308 HM 9774 9815 9185 9519 9974 4398 0909 0447 6262 9057 I reserve the right to change the order after further examination :-) LOL Great work!!

scott: Eric are those top ten in order?

Adele: Wow, Scott - you are amazing!!!! Here's my picks (boy, was that hard...) #1 - 6265 #2 - 6162 #3 - 0879 #4 - 2639 #5 - 2639 (color) #6 - 0457 #7 -1917 #8 - 1911 #9 - 0281 #10 - 0832 #11 / HM - 0372 #12 / HM - 2033 #13 / HM - 2500 #14 / HM - 1803 #15 - 3577 #16 - 5219 #17 - 0457 #18 - 8869 #19 - 0808 #20 - 0891

Amy Anderson: This was very hard - you are GOOD !!!! I wish we had categories, sunset, action, animals, typical hawaii etc... Top 10 144-4312 132-8459 80-0914 117-2603 43-8758 2-8465 237-1911 95-2170 82-1312 228-2085 Honorable Mention 47-8869 53-0281 85-1479 90-1627 99-1627 99-2360 124-2639 130-8439 189-1121 211-0490 102-2434

Jacie Saltzman: AH!! im so excited to do this its almost pathetic. shane and i have been picking our favorites from your all your posts. just let me put it all together. ohhh so exciting!

Alice: C'est dur de pouvoir les mettre dans l'ordre il faudrait pouvoir les voir toutes côte à côte 1 - 125_DSC2639 2 - 012_DSC4422 3 - 021_3S09683 4 - 030Hawaii-1432_6290 5 - 061_DSC9558 6 - 013_DSC4618 7 - 103_DSC2467 8 - 193_DSC9542 9 - 211_DSC0490 10 - 164Hawaii-1452_6310 HM: 227_DSC1905 (mais en couleur elle est plus jolie dommage qu’elle ne soit pas dans le recap) 017_3S09043 066_DSC0035 121_DSC2613 009_3S08748 099_DSC2360 102_DSC2434 143_DSC4112 155Hawaii-0507_5666 (je n’ai pas réussi a trouver dans tout ces dossiers là mais je sais que tu m’a montré un autre dossier où il y avait une photo avec plusieurs chevaux qui était très très belle à mon gout !) 185_DSC9185

Jacie Saltzman: 1- 2085 2- 8778 3- 3920 4- 3411 5- 4312 6-2613 7- 4618 8- 0891 9- 0943 10- 9217 honorable mention: 8758 8704 0372 2360 2127 9762 9849 1014 1176 6290

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