Railpictures reject

Unread post by **~Z~** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 9:50 am

Please at least upload that pic to my site JT..it is great to laugh at in the morning.

J T · Unread post by **J T** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 10:02 am

You got it, Zack.

J T · Unread post by **J T** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 3:50 pm

I find it interesting that they accept a picture like this. Common power, poor lighting, cloudy, dull snow, etc. Sure, it's snowing, but there's nothing exciting about this image that makes it stand out:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=171711

J T · Unread post by **J T** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 4:23 pm

And yet another....common power, poor lighting, UNSHARP, etc...

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=171552

J T · Unread post by **J T** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 4:26 pm

So let me get this straight...they'll accept common power, cloudy day, unsharp....AS LONG AS IT'S SNOWING???

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=171389

Another, cloudy, common power, unsharp...
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=170282

Unbelievable:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=170952

WHAT THE F.......??????
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=170471

I guess it PAYS to PAY, eh?

SD80MAC · Unread post by **SD80MAC** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 5:30 pm

I think the last one is quite creative.

SDavey · Unread post by **SDavey** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:08 pm

The shot of the Conrail train in Chesterton isn't that bad, but those BNSF shots from Minnesota aren't so great. It shows that the screeners are inconsistent. My opinion is that the shot at the lake focuses too much away from the train itself, but thats just my two cents.

sd70accsxt700 · Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:34 pm

Really a photo of a train that it blurry is ok, but god forbid some one dose somthing creative and OH MY GOD what were thay thinking. I dont get you guys.

Unread post by **~Z~** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:00 pm

J T wrote:Unbelievable:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=170952

I think they took this one because there's a few ounces of snow on the loco

For those other snow shots, I think they don't get a lot with snow, so anything with snow falling has a much better chance...usually won't look the most sharp with the white stuff flying.

For the Conrail shot, anything that's posted from the 1990's on back will get accepted more often as it's now a "historical" photo.

Last photo was somewhat creative, but the composition of the photo was horrible in my opinion. Locos smack dab in the center...

sd70accsxt700 · Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:06 pm

I will agree with the historical stuff getting in, kind of hard to go back. But give me a poorly composed photo (I dont think it is that bad, the L shape to the tree to me brings your attention in). over one that is composed, but ant lit worth a crap.

Guest · Unread post by **Guest** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:04 am

Will someone explain to me how I got six photos accepted on railpictures.net today out of the seven I submitted? The four I took today had zero sunlight out. The one that wasn't submitted the shot I took during the Mondays snowstorm, which I have included in this thumbnail.

SDavey · Unread post by **SDavey** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:05 am

The previous post of the snow shot was mine, I totally forgot to log in to the site.

J T · Unread post by **J T** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:54 pm

sd70accsxt700 wrote:Really a photo of a train that it blurry is ok, but god forbid some one dose somthing creative and OH MY GOD what were thay thinking. I dont get you guys.

railroadfan wrote: For the Conrail shot, anything that's posted from the 1990's on back will get accepted more often as it's now a "historical" photo.

Fair enough.

railroadfan wrote: Last photo was somewhat creative, but the composition of the photo was horrible in my opinion. Locos smack dab in the center...

I agree with the creative INTENT of the photo, which I think was good, but the composition is weak.

My point of posting those photos was to show the obvious inconsistencies of the screeners.

chicago4900 wrote:The previous post of the snow shot was mine, I totally forgot to log in to the site.

Can you post links to your pictures that were accepted? You seem surprised that they were, and I'd like to see why you feel that way.

GreatLakesRailfan · Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:44 pm

What with all of the complaints about rp.net, I got to thinking, could the screener inconsistency be the result of some computer issue on the screener's end? Could a bad monitor, bad video drivers, bad software, or some other non-terminal computer issue be causing perfectly good photos to display poorly on the screen of one of the screeners?

Reason why I ask is that I've noticed a difference in how some photos display on the screen of my laptop and various computers in the computer labs at school. I guess it could also be a general dislike of Michigan-area photographs or a general glut of photos from the area as well...

sd70accsxt700 · Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:11 pm

Another possibality, mabey one of the screaners is just like us and he adds just about anything as long as its not really bad. He's just trying to help out the little guy!

SDavey · Unread post by **SDavey** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 5:29 pm

JT, Heres a link to my pictures on railpictures.net

http://www.railpictures.net/showphotos.php?userid=7669

J T · Unread post by **J T** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:47 pm

Well it's good to see that SOMEONE there finally relaxed a bit and accepted some good cloudy day shots. Maybe he(she?) is the same who has accepted the others.

This photo stands out the most to me:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=172083

The colors are excellent and I really like that perspective. On a hill or bridge when you took that?

I like this one a lot, too:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=172071

(I tried the thumbnail linking feature with these but couldn't get it to work)

SDavey · Unread post by **SDavey** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:05 pm

Theres a pedestrian walkway over the old CSX, now SBS Yard in Saginaw. Its a good spot to shoot from because the fence holes are big enough to fit my lens through.

Guest · Unread post by **Guest** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:12 pm

J T wrote:
WHAT THE F.......??????
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=170471

I guess it PAYS to PAY, eh?

My RPElite status has no bearing on my photos being accepted. If it does, I am getting ripped off! I have always accepted solicited and unsolicited criticism. Yet when someone complains that my work was accepted at RP.net or incorrectly states the common power is "smack dab in the center", this is not constructive.

If it is so detrimental, why not petition RP.net to remove photos you disagree with... or become screeners?

Aaron Florin
http://twincitiesrailfan.com

sd70accsxt700 · Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:37 pm

I have tried to petition photos that look the same as ones of mine that has been rejected, and all they say is its there board. I have also apealed on the basis of you have photos in you space that are as badly (whatever) and mine and the response is nothing other than restating what they rejected you photo for. As far as screaners, I dont believe they are looking for any. There have been photos I have resubmited up to six times, each one had somthing more wrong with it. In the end, after the sixth time all I got was Wrong Angle. Basicly if they like you photo your in if not then your not.

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