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Cropping help
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 11:28 pm
by 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!
Re: Cropping help
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 11:31 pm
by conrailmike
They are cropped way to tight and the first one is unlevel
Re: Cropping help
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 11:31 pm
by msurailfan
conrailmike wrote:
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.
Re: Cropping help
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 11:36 pm
by conrailmike
Horizontal.
Re: Cropping help
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 8:11 am
by J T
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.
Re: Cropping help
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 5:15 pm
by msurailfan
J T wrote:
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.
Re: Cropping help
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 9:24 pm
by A No.1
JT is the MAN. You also need some clockwise rotation.
Re: Cropping help
Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 11:45 am
by LSRC
You might want to try boosting the saturation a little bit.