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I was digging around my pictures from my Europe trip and came across a good picture of an RE 460 in Switzerland, tweaked it a bit (mainly resized it) and submitted it. Needless to say it got rejected to RailPictures.net, so I thought I'd look to you guys for some help, I'm really not that great when it comes to picture editing.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewreject. ... 4687&key=0

They say it is to dark, however I fear if I lighten it the sky will be overexposed.

peter

This is where you have to learn how to use some of the tools in photoshop to mask off the sky inorder to not blow it out.

There are some good youtube videos that someone posted in here about just that.

Ok played around with it some more with the help of a friend on skype. Still got rejected, however for other reasons:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewreject. ... =563486831
I'm not really sure how they can get away with calling that "Common Power"

peter

OMG INTERLAKEN I USED TO GO SNOWBOARDING THERE ALL THE TIME I LOVE That place!!!!!!!!!


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Big Frank wrote:OMG INTERLAKEN I USED TO GO SNOWBOARDING THERE ALL THE TIME I LOVE That place!

Frank,

I think it would be more accurately translated that "you used to get drunk and get laid there while holding a snowboard".

PerRock wrote:Ok played around with it some more with the help of a friend on skype. Still got rejected, however for other reasons:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewreject. ... =563486831
I'm not really sure how they can get away with calling that "Common Power"

peter

Well you got nailed for it being a Cloudy Day shot and over there, Im guessing those are common. The Bad Cropping may have been more accurately stated, Bad composition. The pole that is touching the engine and blocking the first car is not good. You probabbly shold have waited till the engine was through the crossing a bit more.

The sky looks really blown out too. There are ways to fix that though. You should look up masking on the youtube videos, If you have photoshop that is. Not sure what you are using to edit.


I wish I had taken more photos in Germany during the 5 years I lived there, I also wish I had known how to use a camera then.

PerRock wrote:Ok played around with it some more with the help of a friend on skype. Still got rejected, however for other reasons:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewreject. ... =563486831
I'm not really sure how they can get away with calling that "Common Power"

peter

Focus on this part of the rejection:

Poor lighting (Cloudy): Common angle cloudy day shots

They don't have a rejection that states that without the "common/standard power" finishing the sentence, so they just use that one.

Also, there are 86 photos of the Re 460 on RP. Perhaps that is what makes it "common" to them.

J T wrote:

PerRock wrote:Ok played around with it some more with the help of a friend on skype. Still got rejected, however for other reasons:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewreject. ... =563486831
I'm not really sure how they can get away with calling that "Common Power"

peter

Focus on this part of the rejection:

Poor lighting (Cloudy): Common angle cloudy day shots

They don't have a rejection that states that without the "common/standard power" finishing the sentence, so they just use that one.

Also, there are 86 photos of the Re 460 on RP. Perhaps that is what makes it "common" to them.

as opposed to the 20,336 photos of Sd40-2s?

ya I'll try playing with the sky more...

peter

PerRock wrote: as opposed to the 20,336 photos of Sd40-2s?

ya I'll try playing with the sky more...

peter

Who said anything about SD40-2s?

Perhaps the scene/composition/whatever aren't strong enough to them to overcome the poor lighting. Not a big deal. Everyone has shots like that.

The sky and the pole I think will be the downfall as stated by Aaron.

tried adjusting some stuff, thought I float it past you lot before it gets rejected again. I haven't figured out what/if I can do with the cropping yet...



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I'm playing with some other images in hopes of getting them up as well:


and one oops picture that happened while I was trying to edit one that made me laugh a bit:


peter

I like the second one in the ones your playing with...

Yes, Like Crow T said, The second one, HOWEVER, Do you have one Just like it but with the train about 3/4th of the way across the bridge. They will not like that one because the train isnt all the way out there. Dont get me wrong, They are nice shots, I just dont think its what RP is looking for.



As for you fist shot up top, The pole is going to kill it. You need to have the engine further out into the street and there is way to much sky up there. You may want to try a Horizontal crop. I like that shot to but I dont think it will make it on RP.

It's also a massive sin to cut the plume off in a steam shot.

Loyd L.