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Building the CPR Kootenay division in N scale, blog here: http://kootenaymodelrailway.wordpress.com/
Mechanical Department "No no that's fine shove that 20 pound set all around the yard... those shoes aren't hell and a half to change..."
The Missabe Road: Safety First
Okay guys I need your help.
I tried to put this into railpictures but they keep rejecting it for blurriness. I have tried to sharpen it up but it doesn't seem to be any better for them. What can I do? Maybe one of you can take it and get it less blurry and then explain to me what needs to be done. Thanks!
James
My Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/JR7582 My Flickr Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wcfan/
Doesn't look like a reject to me, but I think you should submit it in a larger size (Personal preference, I take all my photos to the 1024 limit)
Today I had my final diploma exam of all time (FINALLY! I've been done school itself for like a month!) and I'm pretty psyched. But...now that high school is over, I have to stop slacking.
After my exam, went to Heritage Park to get some train action. Nice weather, but due to a labour shortage the main food place was closed, two smaller places were closed, and one had run out of anything filling, leaving me with only one place to go - With a lineup as big as all outdoors. So after taking my shots, I went home for lunch.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=191659&nseq=1
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=191660&nseq=0
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=191638&nseq=2
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=191636&nseq=3
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=191635&nseq=4
Man, I must be the only person of all time to get five photos of the same train at the same time at the same place on! XD
coborn35 wrote:Long story.
Do tell!
I already have it up to the max size!!!! So your telling me, there being mean about my photo!!!!!!!!! I can't get his thing in because they think it's blurryyyyy!!!! I can't stand it. Can someone help me with it. I can't seem to get it right. I don't have one in yet and I thought I could get this one in. It just right. So what can I do...
Thanks for any help
James, I took the photo into photoshop, but the only thing I can do to it is oversharpen it. It doesn't look that bad to me, but I think WCfan is right that they are looking at the headlight. The foreground is blurry too, but that's a natural thing when the aperture is low. Not quite sure why, as otherwise the photo is pretty crisp and sharp already.
Like Matt said, do you have a larger size of this photo? Railpictures likes stuff 1024 pixels wide, and I could work with a file of that size easier as well. The one you posted is only 800 pixels wide.
I wouldn't say they're "being mean" about your photo, but I'd say they're being railpictures.net. That's the way they work, if it's not pretty darn close to perfect in their eyes they won't accept it. Why else would they be nicknamed railpicky.net. That's also part of why I don't upload much there anymore, I decided it wasn't worth the worry all the time about "is this photo good enough for railpictures?" like I used to. Afterall, lots of shots that one finds in magazines like Trains and Railfan and Railroad would probably be rejected by the people at railpictures for one reason or another, so it's not like railpictures has the final say in what's good and what's not good in a photo. They just have standards for what they want for their site. I just take what I like and only submit a select few photos once and a while anymore. And that's also why I have ambitions of starting my own site, where I can be the screener of my own photos...
Noah
I haven't gotten it yet.
The disadvantages of living where I do....
Of course, the advantages are that I hardly ever worry about getting it onto railpics, I always worry about how it'll turn out, period. Of course, one botche photograph is going to ding my mood points for the day, but it's not really that important - Especially considering I can always reshoot, I think trains will stay the same for 10-20 years! (Although I'm not going to be especially happy about that..)
Yesterday when submitting, I din't think a single shot would make it in.
They ALL made it in! Every single angle I took (And believe me, I liked all of the angles I took!) made it in! Of course, since I don't really care about railpictures anymore, it didn't really lift my mood.
But if this keeps up, I'll have a hundred on by the time I go on vacation. o.O
(I need a new memory card, this one's not gonna stand up to a vacation longer than a week!)
Lots of great discussion going on here!
James- Congrats on your new camera- I hope you love it!
I wish I had more time to sit and chat, however, I must get to bed, as I am leaving on a two week camping/railfanning trip at dawn tomorow....
See ya in Mid-July!
Chris
F45_393 wrote:Lots of great discussion going on here! James- Congrats on your new camera- I hope you love it! I wish I had more time to sit and chat, however, I must get to bed, as I am leaving on a two week camping/railfanning trip at dawn tomorow.... See ya in Mid-July! Chris
Lionel collector, stuck in an N scaler's modelling space.
Why of course you expect pictures. Including one from railpictures.net
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=191771
This is my first photo!!!!!! I never expected this one to make it, but it did.
Also, here are a few more I took this afternoon.
Here's a crew member who looks like he's had enough of the railroad. These three SD38-2s roun around there ore train to push the cars on to the docks.
Another shot of the train climbing the hill running around its train.
A good veiw of Duluth and the Ore docks in Duluth. See the harbor in the background?
And another nice shot of the train and the Ore boat Thompson just above the train.
I will have more later.
Congratulations! Those are some nice pictures!