Shot this and many other images of masses of ideas I had but this shot was the one that shouted out STOCK to me the most after editing a total of 9 images.
The image was cropped from the original ( not by much but enough to cut out some excess foliage ) then I speia toned it in photoshop and then proceded to clone out a small portion of the top left where a couple of whispy branches of a tree waiting to bloom appeared, the only reason for the spot editing was that after re-sizing to 640 in height the brahces just looked wrong and out of place. Apart from that mentioned the image is as is and as stock as I could do...
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The sepia effect here is much too strong. In addition this is one those cases where the addition of a person in the photograph actually makes the picture worse as the man controlling the train is much too modern looking (lose the sunglasses, please) and in addition looking downwards instead of in the camera or at the rail-track.
I also fail to see the point with including the sky in the picture as it is totally white and of no interest.
This is not a great example of a stock photo. Stock photography needs to be something marketable that an ad ageny might pick up. I don't see this as being the least bit versitile....What I mean is that if you had taken a sharp crystal clear image of the wheels of the train, it could be used in many types of ads...."Keep on moving" "rolling"....the psycological message would be there.
Also not a fan of the color scheme you decided to use....you probably tried to warm the picture up but it turned out a bit mucky. The red bleeds into the sky....maybe black and white would have been more appropriate.
Not trying to rip on you....just give you some feedback because I hate when people don't take the time to comment on images that will probably finish middle of the road.....then it leaves those people wondering what they could have done to improve their score. Take my opinion with a grain of salt....I'm just one photographer.
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