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.)
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.
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… [?]
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.
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.
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
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