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What's your opinion on this, RP says bad cropping, my whole intent was to get the water tower and tree overhang to frame in the photo, I shot this in Portrait mode(vertical).

Any suggestions ?

http://www.railpictures.net/viewreject. ... ey=6305922

1. Get rid of that tree creeping in on the right.

2. Screw RP, get a Flickr account.

gtwhogger wrote:What's your opinion on this, RP says bad cropping, my whole intent was to get the water tower and tree overhang to frame in the photo, I shot this in Portrait mode(vertical).

Any suggestions ?

http://www.railpictures.net/viewreject. ... ey=6305922

Yes...too tall. Crop to 4:5 and get rid of a lot of that useless foreground.

This may or may not work:

conrailmike wrote:
2. Screw RP, get a Flickr account.

Get both.

conrailmike wrote:1. Get rid of that tree creeping in on the right.

2. Screw RP, get a Flickr account.

3. Why can't anyone learn? SCREW RP!!!!!!!!!!!

Well hell, if you're a "Big Name" you can even submit a shot with your shadow in it and have it accepted. What a load of inconsistent bull RP is.

NSSD60M wrote:Well hell, if you're a "Big Name" you can even submit a shot with your shadow in it and have it accepted. What a load of inconsistent bull RP is.

*cough* *cough* NS *cough*

The only reason that I take pictures is to please one person , ME ! A lot of people strive for that shot that is accepted by _________ .

bdconrail29 wrote:

conrailmike wrote:1. Get rid of that tree creeping in on the right.

2. Screw RP, get a Flickr account.

3. Why can't anyone learn? SCREW RP!!!!!!!!!!!

Why cant you learn? The vast majority of those of us that submit to RP do so for the fun of it and for the fact that pictures do get a lot of exposure on there. You can also get a lot of exposure on Flickr if you're contacts with the right people. We shoot for ourselves. If our shots happen to match up with RPs guidelines, awesome. If not, oh well. The original poster was not whining about RP, just looking for a bit of help.

RP has never been, nor will it ever be, the be all/end all of train photography.

What Jon said. I rag on RP as much at the next guy but it is a good tool to get your name out.

bdconrail29 wrote:
3. Why can't anyone learn? SCREW RP!!!!!!!!!!!

If I had "screwed RP," I never would have gotten a cover shot on a mag with a readership of nearly 70 million people.

But yeah, you're right, "learn" (what, who knows) and screw RP.

J T wrote:

bdconrail29 wrote:
3. Why can't anyone learn? SCREW RP!!!!!!!!!!!

If I had "screwed RP," I never would have gotten a cover shot on a mag with a readership of nearly 70 million people.

But yeah, you're right, "learn" (what, who knows) and screw RP.

What magazine and when?

J T wrote:I never would have gotten a cover shot on a mag with a readership of nearly 70 million people.

Yeah, what magazine?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ma ... irculation

MagnumForce wrote:What Jon said. I rag on RP as much at the next guy but it is a good tool to get your name out.

You're name out for WHAT? Railfan photography?? Um, ok, cool.

bdconrail29 wrote:

MagnumForce wrote:What Jon said. I rag on RP as much at the next guy but it is a good tool to get your name out.

You're name out for WHAT? Railfan photography?? Um, ok, cool.

Exactly what I was thinking. Awesome. For when Casey retires?!?

NSSD60M wrote:Exactly what I was thinking. Awesome. For when Casey retires?!?

I don't think there's that high of a rate of turnover as NS's corporate photographer.

SD80MAC wrote:

bdconrail29 wrote:

conrailmike wrote:1. Get rid of that tree creeping in on the right.

2. Screw RP, get a Flickr account.

3. Why can't anyone learn? SCREW RP!!!!!!!!!!!

Why cant you learn? The vast majority of those of us that submit to RP do so for the fun of it and for the fact that pictures do get a lot of exposure on there. You can also get a lot of exposure on Flickr if you're contacts with the right people. We shoot for ourselves. If our shots happen to match up with RPs guidelines, awesome. If not, oh well. The original poster was not whining about RP, just looking for a bit of help.

RP has never been, nor will it ever be, the be all/end all of train photography.

Wow. It's not this big of a deal. I'm just joking anyways. Sorry if I offended anyone.

J T wrote:

bdconrail29 wrote:
3. Why can't anyone learn? SCREW RP!!!!!!!!!!!

If I had "screwed RP," I never would have gotten a cover shot on a mag with a readership of nearly 70 million people.

But yeah, you're right, "learn" (what, who knows) and screw RP.

If it's Trains Magazine I just might have that one, considering I have them all since about 1945

bdconrail29 wrote:

J T wrote:

bdconrail29 wrote:
3. Why can't anyone learn? SCREW RP!!!!!!!!!!!

If I had "screwed RP," I never would have gotten a cover shot on a mag with a readership of nearly 70 million people.

But yeah, you're right, "learn" (what, who knows) and screw RP.

If it's Trains Magazine I just might have that one, considering I have them all since about 1945

It's not Trains because Trains has a little less than 100,000 subscribers.....pretty good for a railroad magazine I suppose

Jt had his photo in Parade magazine. Saw it in our Sunday paper year or two ago. Think it was for an Amtrak article, photo from California if I remember correctly on the cover.

RP is a decent place to become better known in railfan photography land... My photos there have brought in members to post here, so they aren't too bad. Plus I've sold a photo from there before as well.

~Z~ wrote:Jt had his photo in Parade magazine. Saw it in our Sunday paper year or two ago. Think it was for an Amtrak article, photo from California if I remember correctly on the cover.

RP is a decent place to become better known in railfan photography land... My photos there have brought in members to post here, so they aren't too bad. Plus I've sold a photo from there before as well.

Oh my I missed the 70 million viewers part of his post...................