Cropping help

[msurailfan]

Got dinged for cropping. I'm thinking I may have cropped it too closely?

http://www.railpictures.net/viewreject. ... 3033&key=0

Here's a link to the original:

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f266/ ... 0992_1.jpg

Let me know what you guys think.

Also, not planning on getting a positive response to this, as I can clearly see why it was rejected, but I thought this one might have been able to slip thru due to the elephant style power. Any chance?

http://www.railpictures.net/viewreject. ... =166279985

Thanks guys!

[conrailmike]

Got dinged for cropping. I'm thinking I may have cropped it too closely?

http://www.railpictures.net/viewreject. ... 3033&key=0

Here's a link to the original:

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f266/ ... 0992_1.jpg

Let me know what you guys think.

Also, not planning on getting a positive response to this, as I can clearly see why it was rejected, but I thought this one might have been able to slip thru due to the elephant style power. Any chance?

http://www.railpictures.net/viewreject. ... =166279985

Thanks guys!

They are cropped way to tight and the first one is unlevel

[msurailfan]

Got dinged for cropping. I'm thinking I may have cropped it too closely?

http://www.railpictures.net/viewreject. ... 3033&key=0

Here's a link to the original:

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f266/ ... 0992_1.jpg

Let me know what you guys think.

Also, not planning on getting a positive response to this, as I can clearly see why it was rejected, but I thought this one might have been able to slip thru due to the elephant style power. Any chance?

http://www.railpictures.net/viewreject. ... =166279985

Thanks guys!

They are cropped way to tight.

Which way should I go? vertical, horizontal, both? And I'm really....REALLY....bad at picking up on level-ness. I just can't see it. Which way?
On the second one, if I go any wider I'll be bringing in power lines on both sides. Guess that one's a lost cause.

[conrailmike]

Horizontal.

[J T]

Got dinged for cropping. I'm thinking I may have cropped it too closely?

http://www.railpictures.net/viewreject. ... 3033&key=0

Here's a link to the original:

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f266/ ... 0992_1.jpg

Let me know what you guys think.

Also, not planning on getting a positive response to this, as I can clearly see why it was rejected, but I thought this one might have been able to slip thru due to the elephant style power. Any chance?

http://www.railpictures.net/viewreject. ... =166279985

Thanks guys!

For the first one, do you have a shot a second or so earlier? The utility pole growing out of the top of the loco is really distracting. If you had taken the pic a second sooner, it COULD have been used for a framing feature. Try to pay attention to stuff like that when shooting.

For the second, you have no chance. Common power (elephant style is irrelevant), cloudy and uninteresting scene will get you every time.

[msurailfan]

Got dinged for cropping. I'm thinking I may have cropped it too closely?

http://www.railpictures.net/viewreject. ... 3033&key=0

Here's a link to the original:

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f266/ ... 0992_1.jpg

Let me know what you guys think.

Also, not planning on getting a positive response to this, as I can clearly see why it was rejected, but I thought this one might have been able to slip thru due to the elephant style power. Any chance?

http://www.railpictures.net/viewreject. ... =166279985

Thanks guys!

For the first one, do you have a shot a second or so earlier? The utility pole growing out of the top of the loco is really distracting. If you had taken the pic a second sooner, it COULD have been used for a framing feature. Try to pay attention to stuff like that when shooting.

For the second, you have no chance. Common power (elephant style is irrelevant), cloudy and uninteresting scene will get you every time.

Thanks for the tips. I definitely see what you're saying with the pole looking at it again. I have a couple I took earlier but there's way too much room on the left side of those for them to work. There is one other that was taken maybe 5 seconds prior that I rather like but I'm not sure it's quality enough, I think it would probably get dinged for foreground clutter (there's one of those white and orange gas line poles off to the side a bit). Maybe I'll give it a shot.

[A No.1]

JT is the MAN. You also need some clockwise rotation.

[LSRC]

You might want to try boosting the saturation a little bit.