A pic I took...please C&C

[rat_1_ca]

Took this today....

 

[mvehrs]

Nice picture. I only have a few suggestions. It seems to me that your photo has more then one subject. Is it a picture of a train, or a some people walking on the train track, or just a pretty snapshot of a town? There is no one thing that draws your eye, and because of that, my eye is going everywhere trying to find what I am supposed to be looking at.

Keep working at it!

 

[Derek Zoolander]

what makes something a "snapshot" and what makes something a "photograph"? seems to me this picture captures the whole scene. people scurrying across train tracks before the trains hits them.

 

[Judge Sharpe]

I, being me, would crop tighter on the train and figures, cut off the parking lot and that would clean up the extraneous a lot.
SJ

 

[Judge Sharpe]

Also a longer telephoto would compress the figures and train and heighten the drama.
JS

 

[Captain IK]

I, being me, would crop tighter on the train and figures, cut off the parking lot and that would clean up the extraneous a lot.
SJ

Yep...being me too.

 

[Samanax]

what makes something a "snapshot" and what makes something a "photograph"?

That's a very good and valid question. The most basic answer is a snapshot usually isn't thought out before the shot is taken...you point and shoot and what you get is what you get.

A photograph is generally more thought out and planned before you hit the shutter release...How's the light? Which direction is it coming from? How should I compose it? Should I get closer? Should I go farther away? Should I hold the camera in a horizontal orientation? Should I hold it in the portrait orientation? Should I use a telephoto lens? Should I use a wide angle lens? Etc, etc, etc...and the end result is hopefully a nicely composed, well lit, pleasing image that says something to us.

 

[NateWagner]

I agree as well, if you crop out the left with the parking lot and you make it a portrait oriented photo it would be greatly improved. the cars are a distracting element to the shot.

 

[stsinner]

That's a good picture.

 

[ShutterSpeed]

biggest issue in this picture...

is the tilt. the horizon needs to be straight.

 

[Captain IK]

A very quick resize & sepia

I should have added some contrast too

 

[Captain IK]

Keep in mind, I didn;t take the original shot...just trying to work with what is here.
Had I taken the photo I would have used a longer focal length to begin with.

Not sure what my hat has to do with this pic though.