Blog Entry
Photo voting recap
Well, it took me a bit longer to get back to this than I planned. I've been working away trying to close up projects before I go on an extended leave. I wanted to share the results of everyone's voting on my photographs.
First and foremost, thank you all that participated.
Overall, people tagged 84 images with printmeplease for consideration to be printed. The top image received 10 votes, and will definitely be touched up and included in the set first available for print. There was a mix of photos I'd selected myself, and ones that I hadn't. It proved to be an interesting experiment showing the difference between my tastes and those of my friends. Surprisingly, the two images receiving the most votes were not images that I'd selected for inclusion.
Content-wise, there are some other interesting stats. There was an almost exactly even mix of color and black and white shots across the set of all photos that received at least one vote. However, 10 of the top 13 photos (those that received 4 or more votes) were black and white. Of those top 13, 7 were landscapes, 6 were architectural/urban, and 1 was a nature/abstract. Nothing particularly surprising there. I do generally prefer black and white, and enjoy taking landscapes / abstracts. No shock my best work comes out in those subjects.
Without further ado, here are the top voted photographs, separated by how many votes they received. Below that are links to the remaining vote tags.
The other lesson learned way that I have a lot less friends on Flickr than I originally thought. A better exercise would have been to quickly code up a little web app that would let people vote without requiring them to have a Flickr account. Even without that, I'm pretty pleased with the turnout. And, combined with the images of my choosing, I have some to send off to print.
Thanks again.