How to Take Better Train Travel Photos
For an Internet Rail Travelogue, and for Personal Use.
By Carl Morrison at MoKnowsPhotos.com
- Carl@TrainWeb.com - TrainWeb.org/Carl(The photo examples are best viewed while online, since some references are to photos on other web pages of mine.)
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5. Crop your photos
eliminating
distracting elements at the
top, bottom,
and sides as you shoot and in post-production. As you can see in
photo above, left, the
horizontally cropped photo looks better than showing a lot of sky and
foreground. (Don't forget to click the images in this report for
a double-sized copy.) Of course you are cropping a COPY for your
report, never the original, which you have safely stored. Web
reporting can use any manual cropping. Print media, on the other
hand, may want specific cropping and resolution. You will make a
new copy from your archived originals for this purpose. If you
make prints of your own work, restrain the copy of the original to 4 x
6, 5 x 7, 8 x 10, etc. before sending
them to a printer where they decide, or
worse a machine decides, what to crop! More about post-production
editing in Section 17.
 5.1 This photo is a
combination of elements: Cropping
(Metrolink Logo was
needed for this photo assignment), Telephoto
(Compacting of the light
posts and handrail posts), Bordering
(The Platform Roof and column), Rule
of Thirds, and Unique Angle
(I raised my camera to arms length to move the handrails down and the
roof down).
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 5.2 The original,
uncropped image (above) was necessary to include the border of palm
trees and clock on the left. (I also crouched down to show the rest of
the train under the cover).
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 5.3 Cropping
the right and top from the image places focus on the main subject, the
Surfliner.
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