Rail pictures website

[louisnash]

Has anyone on this website ever sent photos to railpictures.net.
I am curious to find out what criteria they look for in posting photos to their website. I sent one on Tuesday night and they rejected it because I had a pole in the picture. I went through some of the other photos in the website and mine didn't look any different than what anyone else had sent in. I saw some you couldn't make out a lot because of shade trees.

Anyway, any help would be thankful. I would just like a couple pointers on what they look for. When I take pictures, I only take what suits me. I don't have a high dollar camera with all the fancy lenses, but I feel that I do have some decent photos that I would like to post over the internet. (And I do have some that really suck also.)

Many thanks
Brian (KY)

[Anonymous]

I've heard that RP.net is a joke. They say the guy who runs it is real picky.

[Anonymous]

Brian, I sent about 10 pictures up there, and each one has a different reason fro not being excepted, all very stupid reasons might I add, "low light" and the sun is almsot shining on my camera. So eventually I got really sick of it, and sent the guy a picture of me flipping him off...

In short.. don't deal with them, save yourself, find another place to post your images.

QUOTE: Originally posted by louisnash

Has anyone on this website ever sent photos to railpictures.net.
I am curious to find out what criteria they look for in posting photos to their website. I sent one on Tuesday night and they rejected it because I had a pole in the picture. I went through some of the other photos in the website and mine didn't look any different than what anyone else had sent in. I saw some you couldn't make out a lot because of shade trees.

Anyway, any help would be thankful. I would just like a couple pointers on what they look for. When I take pictures, I only take what suits me. I don't have a high dollar camera with all the fancy lenses, but I feel that I do have some decent photos that I would like to post over the internet. (And I do have some that really suck also.)

Many thanks
Brian (KY)

[fuzzybroken]

I've uploaded several pictures to RailPictures.net, but most of my online pictures are on Epson PhotoCenter (http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumList?u=4081832) -- that way I can put whatever I want online! (And it's free...) While a couple pictures have been accepted on RP.net, the others have been rejected for various reasons. One picture I sent in, I had modified the color, and it was rejected for "poor contrast", and I couldn't disagree with that. Another pic I sent was rejected for "out-of-focus", which was completely wrong, so I appealed and they said that it was a bad shot of common power (Soo GP38-2). Huh?

I guess it's just a numbers game, and depends on the mood of the screeners that look at your picture -- keep trying! Eventually you'll get one in.

As for the RailPictures site, I think it's a great reference tool, but yeah, their "criteria" seem kinda stupid sometimes, e.g. "no front-coupled engines" -- why not??? I even snuck one in depite this criterion... [?]

[2c],
-Mark Hintz
Milwaukee, WI
http://www.geocities.com/fuzzybroken

[Anonymous]

Same problems here.

Though I know I am no professional, I thought some of my pictures were pretty good and thought that other railfans might like them. I sent in about 5 or 6 of them but all rejected. Same reasons as above, low light, off centre blah blah blah.

It didn't really bother me, 'cuz I know I am no pro, so I just sent them to other websites that were happy to get them.

I don't bother submitting pics there anymore.

[louisnash]

Thanks everyone for the response. I do appreciate it.

Kevin, I never gave the finger a thought. I was thinking more of "Blue Moon of Kentucky" Oh, well. There are more places to go than there.

Mark, I checked out your website. Very nice photos. I like the variety of just anything taken. My wife gets on me all the time as what she calls taking photos of stupid "stuff". To me it is just preserving history.

BTW, the pole that was in the picture that caused it to be rejected was a RR telegraph pole. Know I know why the people on Kentucky Yahoo Railfan always talk about the sun being at a certain angle and things. I just take them wherever I am at. If it catches my eye I take it no matter where the light is.

Thanks again,
Brian (KY)

[Mikeygaw]

i just skipped over them at built my own website at trainweb.org

[JoeKoh]

Brian
i just send them to people I know.
stay safe
Joe

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by JoeKoh

Brian
i just send them to people I know.
stay safe
Joe

I look forward to those "Joe and Stacey" e-mails. [:D]

[louisnash]

l look forward to them as well Macguy.

Along with Locomutt and Cherokee Woman.

Brian (KY)

[Anonymous]

Hey Brian,
You sent me some pictures you took and I loved them. You should just set up a site at geocities or angelfire and make your own page. I'm sure a lot of people would love to see them. Keep doing what your doing if it makes you happy stick with it.
Andy

[Anonymous]

I just joined Webshots.com, but I "moderate" a photo section of the Museum website at http://www.brrm.net/photos.htm

[edblysard]

I also look forward to the Joe and Matt photo history...
Think about it, we get to watch a fan in the making!
Keep em coming.

Ed

QUOTE: Originally posted by macguy

QUOTE: Originally posted by JoeKoh

Brian
i just send them to people I know.
stay safe
Joe

I look forward to those "Joe and Stacey" e-mails. [:D]

[csxengineer98]

hey now...
railpictures.net know good looking engineers when they see them...just take a look at this jem they let get posted...
man what a good looking hogger ahahahahahahhaahhahah
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=17322
csx engineer

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by csxengineer98

hey now...
railpictures.net know good looking engineers when they see them...just take a look at this jem they let get posted...
man what a good looking hogger ahahahahahahhaahhahah
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=17322
csx engineer

nice arm!!!! [:X]

[JoeKoh]

QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

I also look forward to the Joe and Matt photo history...
Think about it, we get to watch a fan in the making!
Keep em coming.

Ed

QUOTE: Originally posted by macguy

QUOTE: Originally posted by JoeKoh

Brian
i just send them to people I know.
stay safe
Joe

I look forward to those "Joe and Stacey" e-mails. [:D]

working on getting some back soon. not all the norange engines were in nebraska last weekend.[;)]
stay safe
Joe

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by csxengineer98

hey now...
railpictures.net know good looking engineers when they see them...just take a look at this jem they let get posted...
man what a good looking hogger ahahahahahahhaahhahah
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=17322
csx engineer

Was that you?

[csxengineer98]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

QUOTE: Originally posted by csxengineer98

hey now...
railpictures.net know good looking engineers when they see them...just take a look at this jem they let get posted...
man what a good looking hogger ahahahahahahhaahhahah
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=17322
csx engineer

nice arm!!!! [:X]

thank you...you should see the rest of the package..lol
csx engineer

[csxengineer98]

QUOTE: Originally posted by kevinstheRRman

QUOTE: Originally posted by csxengineer98

hey now...
railpictures.net know good looking engineers when they see them...just take a look at this jem they let get posted...
man what a good looking hogger ahahahahahahhaahhahah
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=17322
csx engineer

Was that you?

yes it was...and no..the pic was not a staged event.... the peace sign is one of my calling card moves when i see any buff taking a pic of my train... i thumb throught trains mag..and many other rail road related publications to see pics of csx in the area i work..and see if any of them have the engineer giveing the peace sign....but one day i found this websight on the the net...and ran a serch of the pics of csx ...and low and behold this one came up....i remember that train too...went into emergancy sortly after the pic was taken too....due to an air hose seporation...
shame he didnt get me in my full beutiy...but then agin..it might have broken his camara if he got a clear shot of the face....or at least you all might have gotten a laugh out of the hat....it had all the kids from SOUTH PARK on it....
csx engineer
cartman is my hero....
respect my athority..lol

[dharmon]

Nice pic CSX.......Phillip Burnside......wait a minute ..isn't that Doggy[:)]???

[csxengineer98]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

Nice pic CSX.......Phillip Burnside......wait a minute ..isn't that Doggy[:)]???

now that would be a twist..lol
csx engineer

[wcfan4ever]

I have three pictures now on the website. Before these photos were accepted, I have had over 20 rejected. There was also one photo I took while in Rochelle, IL with three former CNW painted in UP Paint SD40-2's leading three former SP/SSW Tunnel Motors on thier way to the scrapyard. They photo was perfect, smoke pouring out of the first three loco's, and the units just past the signal bridge, good lighting, everything centered but it was rejected the first time for poor lighting, the second time was common power. I think the photo was a winner because everyone I showed it to said it was really cool and dramatic. Even people who I go to school with that don't even like trains thought it was a really neat photo.

Here they are:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=61832
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=61938
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=61829

[Anonymous]

Nice pics wcfan4ever, nice to hear about someone that actually got a few on that website.

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

Nice pic CSX.......Phillip Burnside......wait a minute ..isn't that Doggy[:)]???

What's the deal with that guy, won't his mom let him post anymore?
It's like he fell off the face of the earth.
I miss all his capitals.

[csxengineer98]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

Nice pic CSX.......Phillip Burnside......wait a minute ..isn't that Doggy[:)]???

What's the deal with that guy, won't his mom let him post anymore?
It's like he fell off the face of the earth.
I miss all his capitals.


dont know...maybe he was banned.....
csx engineer

[Anonymous]

He's still on the member list

[wcfan4ever]

Well, two more rejected today. Here they are, tell me what you think and try to guess what they said:

Photo 1:


Photo 2:

[wcfan4ever]

Oh yeah, and the one with the UP SD40-2's and the Tunnel Motor, I think this is a great shot, let me know what you think.

[louisnash]

WCfan4ever

Great shots!!
I can't get the ones you had rejected to come up.
I had the same thing happen showing my photos at work. Everybody said they were good, but still rejected. All because of a pole.

I'm not going to even waste my time sending my photos to that website. That's an awful lot of pictures to get rejected. I am thinking of trying my own website when I get time. With it being summer I try and stay outside a lot, and I don't stay on the computer much to sit down and do it right now.

As I said, nice pics!!!

Brian (KY)

[Anonymous]

wcfan4ever, your pictures don't seem to be showing up.

Just post the link to them if it's easier.

[csxengineer98]

QUOTE: Originally posted by wcfan4ever

Well, two more rejected today. Here they are, tell me what you think and try to guess what they said:

Photo 1:


Photo 2:

here we go....... its Trainorders..all over agin....for a month solid not to long ago...this was the topic ....."my pic was regected from railpix.... so what do you think"..... so what if they dont like it... if you have problems with railpix..then dont send them any pics and forget the websight...... but they have the right to choose what pics they want...
csx engineer

and besides...they only want pics of good looking engineers..such as myself...lol