WPC 1319 - Trains ANALYSIS: flashgordon has graciously volunteered their WPC 1319 - Trains entry for critique and analysis to find out what they could have done to make it better. Be...

St3v3M Loc: 35,000 feet

flashgordon has graciously volunteered their WPC 1319 - Trains entry for critique and analysis to find out what they could have done to make it better. Be nice, but be honest as this will help everyone with their craft. Thank you flashgordon and thank you everyone!

from WPC 1319 - Trains http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/photo_contest.jsp?pcnum=58

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wowbmw Loc: Grant, Colorado

St3v3M wrote:

flashgordon has graciously volunteered their WPC 1319 - Trains entry for critique and analysis to find out what they could have done to make it better. Be nice, but be honest as this will help everyone with their craft. Thank you flashgordon and thank you everyone!

from WPC 1319 - Trains http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/photo_contest.jsp?pcnum=58

This is one of those photos that I would be proud to have captured but gives me an uneasy feeling when I view it. It is sharp, has nice lines, very dramatic, yet why am I uncomfortable? Regardless of my comfort level, it certainly kept me in the frame.

Armadillo Loc: Ventura, CA

wowbmw wrote:

This is one of those photos that I would be proud to have captured but gives me an uneasy feeling when I view it. It is sharp, has nice lines, very dramatic, yet why am I uncomfortable? Regardless of my comfort level, it certainly kept me in the frame.

Perhaps you are uncomfortable, as I am, with the composition. The train is running out of the right side of the composition.

Michael G

spinkick Loc: Watseka IL

It is indeed a good capture-probably better than I could do. I like that it fills most of the frame and certainly conveys motion-ie about to run off the page that way. However with the darkening sky and so much dark gray railbed (do you call them that on these kind) and the colors of the train itself are so close in tones it just has a sort of ominously metallicaly feel.

renomike Loc: Reno, Nevada

St3v3M wrote:

flashgordon has graciously volunteered their WPC 1319 - Trains entry for critique and analysis to find out what they could have done to make it better. Be nice, but be honest as this will help everyone with their craft. Thank you flashgordon and thank you everyone!

Steve... Could you possibly have who ever submits a photo for analysis to upload it full size, so it can be downloaded by us? Hard to tell much about a picture when it's only a small thumbnail. Many thumbnails look great till they are enlarged full size or even half size. Just a suggestion.

My first impression it seems to be shot to tight. I think if he had backed off on the telephoto a little it would have made a better shot. Just my thoughts without enlarging it. Hard to tell if it's on a bank or actually on a bridge of some sort.

Thanks... Mike

St3v3M Loc: 35,000 feet

renomike wrote:

Steve... Could you possibly have who ever submits ... (show quote)

Smart!

parkhurst6 Loc: Spanaway, WA

I myself think it would have looked better coming from right to left...maybe the clouds is what the unnerving feeling is....they are dark. I like the contrast though. Very sleek feeling....great job! I wish I could have called it my own. You should be proud! Great job! Thanks for sharing! Happy Shooting!

TonyB Loc: Cornwall UK

I agree with Wowbmw, its has everything correct, good exposure, sharp, good composition but I do not like it for some reason. It has a sort of menacing aura, probably not knowing if it is coming or has passed, and there is a lack of perspective the nearer part, is it the front or rear, appears smaller than the rest at the extreme left. I think that is what gives it an unreal look. I agree with Renomike that it would have been better with a wider angle lens so that it would appear in better perspective. But certainly is an intriguing photo, I keep going back to it, worrying that it is just my opinion or is it truly an uncomfortable feeling that it gives.
Thank you flashgordon for making me think about composition more.

jdubu Loc: San Jose, CA

As I keep viewing the train, it is less a train and more an angry menace.

It's as though the train has taken on animalistic properties, from the graphics on the side reminiscent of appendages, to the angle of the front forming slashing eyebrows (much like you see in cartoon drawings of angry people) Given the cold metal feel and environment, it projects a sense of foreboding to me.

fotkaman Loc: Earth

Armadillo wrote:

Perhaps you are uncomfortable, as I am, with the composition. The train is running out of the right side of the composition.

Michael G

If this was taken in Canada, flashgordon's location, then the train's going on the right-side tracks, i.e., from left to right.
I really like here the depth compression, the composition, the light, the dramatic colors. But what is totally awesome is how it captured your attention! How it stopped you in your tracks and made you to think about it! I value that the most, indeed! :thumbup:

Armadillo Loc: Ventura, CA

fotkaman wrote:

If this was taken in Canada, flashgordon's location, then the train's going on the right side, i.e., from left to right.
I really like here the depth compression, the composition, the light, the dramatic colors. But what is totally awesome is how it captured your attention! How it stopped you in your track and made you to think about it! I value that the most, indeed! :thumbup:

I don't think it matters where the picture was captured, the large glass window appears to be the drivers window, and he/she is driving out of the picture.

Armadillo Loc: Ventura, CA

Armadillo wrote:

I don't think it matters where the picture was captured, the large glass window appears to be the drivers window, and he/she is driving out of the picture.

PS. Do trains have headlights lit on the tail end of a train? Or red stop lights?

photoreno Loc: Bradenton, FL

I think it is cropped to tightly as well..it doesn't evoke any emotion, which to me makes a good photo. Technically it's good, but doesn't have a "wow" factor..

Hal81 Loc: Bucks County, Pa.

Its a train, so I like it.

jmdusty Loc: greater DaytonOh. area

Since all we have is the thumb, don't see any way to really judge it. To me, it looks like the train was headed left, whom ever shot it, saw it, and grabbed their camera and took the shot. So what they got was what was still there.

Dusty