Six participants will do battle in this week’s Trackside challenge, “Stacks and pigs.”
See their intermodal photos here: http://trn.trains.com/Trackside/2013/04/Vol%20208%20Stacks%20and%20pigs.aspx
Who do you think best portrayed this week’s theme?
Drew Halverson
I went with Alex Mayes shot of trains assumingly going in two directions. But all the others were great pictures, I mean great pictures. Just that Alex’s told the story of stacks going every which way while the others were just beautiful settings.
I liked Alex’ shot best, too.
Tom in Nashville
I was going to vote for Hacker’s shot until i saw Townsley’s photo. Hacker’s shot is so polished it looks like a PR shot for an advertisement.
All the shots are good, but Brandon’s outstanding atmospherics put the others in the shade. [;)]
This group generated more consternation than any I’ve discerned.
With Henry6, except for one, I agree they’re all very high quality, agree with the ruling of thirds, encourage eyes to move around and look at the whole rather than point at one dominant part of the pic’.
Spending 15 minutes looking for reasons not to vote for one of the five, and then inspired about what to do with the sixth…frustrating.
The first one: content dominant…cover for a UP advert for intermodal
Second: flip it vertical, crop into part of the engine’s cab, let the Fed X ground logo take a lot of the space…sell it to Fed X.
The Columbia Riv. shot’s a bit too busy, too much stuff, but a wonder fully composed shot…I’d vote for it if the engine was passing an mty well-car.
The NS sunset train is about as benevolent (as in “warm and fuzzy”) as a composition can get. There’s nothing wrong with that.
The fifth that I didn’t vote for was a jump ball-had it been flipped horizontal to vertical, shot wide-angle, with that ascending (perspectively) power-line towers being chopped off a tad closer to the right margin of the photo’.
I voted for Lustig’s because of the drama in it and…I ran trains and helpers there.
Remember there is no right or wrongs when judging pictures…you like it or don’t for whatever reason and nobody can say your wrong. Prejudice is allowed; so is favoritism, parochialism, nepotism, soft spot for loco or local or railroad, in fact, any reason you have is your reason and nobody can argue with you.
What we have, Henry6, is a failure for me to communicate…
First, my apology is offerred if I inspired you to think I was critical of your judgement that all photos were highest quality we have seen here. They are. at least in my limited time doing this, and Drew, if the quality choices are only two, please don’t compromise quality for…
Second, judging pictures is primarily about “liking.” Your stipulations of “isms” I completely agree with, and soft spots, or railroad… I say to anyone that you could not be more correct.
Prejudice was used to indicate that I chose from 6 nearly equal photos one that because my first call as an engineer was for a helper from Bakersfield…and later I was an operating officer for Bakersfield to Yuma, SLO to LA, San Diego, thru’ Tijuana to Tecate
My predjudice term was because of my connection to We,
who worked there, our friends, our tribulations remembered, and a dramatic photo, slicing across…
No, I didn’t think you were critical of my judgement…and I wasn’t directing my comment to anyone in particular…I was just making an observation or statement probably about taking a lot of this too seriously.