Nostalgic Train Ride

I have been told that this would look great on the front of a

postcard, photo was taken during the train ride at Strasburg Railroad.

Post Card? How about gallery worthy? This is beautiful. Make postcards, greeting cards, calendars. Anything. Go onto NGM.com and submit it to Your Shot.

Hi Robert,

 

I think the theme and concept would work well for a postcard. This image might be given more snap with a few minor Photoshop edits. For example, remove the power lines, crop out some of the clutter on the right side, and adjust the levels/curves a bit. Problem is, you end up with a more square format, which doesn't lend itself well to postcards. Anyway, just some ideas. See attached for an example... Best regards, -Clayton

Typical of these "edits", I like the origianl much more. The suggested changes make it oversaturated, overblown, tasteless kitsch in the best tradition of all things lacking subtlety.

I think this image (the origianl) is wonderful, and would only suggest that being "worthy" of being a postcard, it should not be a criteria for how you judge your picture. Does it convey what you wanted to convey when you took it? Is it creating the emotions you want to create? Well, then its a successful image. Who cares if a bunch of people with questionable taste would "vote" for it by buying a postcard? Remember, those are the same people that buy souvenir t-shirts with cheesy attempts at humour:)