Thank you for explaining! It’s good to know how it works.
Sadly, I couldn’t get an angle to show more of the background, because people were gathering around in like a C shape. The only empty space next to the tower was the road where the cars were coming up. (As it shows on the second picture.) If you don’t mind me asking, would it have been better if instead of people there were parking cars in the background? I could have angle it so the background shows the cars instead of the people, but I didn’t want to cause trouble showing the license plates, and I thought since people are turned away their face aren’t recognizable unlike the license plates so this seemed to be the better solution. Would have the cars with the license plates showing be a better solution?
I’m looking at it on my pc, it’s been more than 30 minutes and nothing. Tried it on my phone, but gave up after 10 minutes of waiting. And yes, that was the reason it showed before! Thanks!
License Plates would present a similar problems. Studying the supporting photo, you might have tried to zoom in on the tower to eliminate (crop out) the people and cars. If all else fails try another day. I have a pool that I want to submit but I may have to go back in the fall to get a time without people.
I see. Thank you for your answer!
I want to hike up there soon again. Hopefully there will be less people next time.
Whenever possible I take the picture before doing the submission process.
Cropping out stray people or thumbs.
A square crop works well for photos and I try to get the key object in the middle.
I also check if it’s nice and bright and adjust that a little.
Basically just little touches to tidy it up.
The photo is what we all naturally focus on so a good one sets the review off to a good start.
There are a few tools you can use to help - the simplest is a crop, or your could apply a coarse pixellation to the people if they are in the background, if your phone has a magic eraser it can produce acceptable results too as long as the people aren’t prominent.
The trick with editing the photo is to take the photo first, edit it in your phone’s picture app and then submit it as an existing photo.
It does look like a good nomination to be honest, if it wasn’t for the faces I think it would be an easy accept.
It sounds to me like this will be a duplicate, so cleaning up the photo and resubmitting it is a waste of time.
Ugh. I miss that. So the tower ald have photo frame as wayspot? So even if you manage to submit it, it probably got rejected as duplicate. Even if community somehow accept it, it might be in same cell with the frame. have you check s2 cells? Multiple wayspot within same cell means it wont appear as pokestop, with how close it is, it wont probably appear as powerspot either
they were asked about the “photo frame” earlier in the discussion
It is difficult to see at the satellite view, as it is brand new. The tower and the information sign appear to be at some distance, if the sign shows more than just the tower (eg. the hiking trails), it may be possible to have two waypoints. Can’t tell if they will be in the same cell.
I am guessing the image below is of the “Photo Frame”.
If you plan to visit again and take more images it would be worthwhile it would be worth taking a screen grab of the Frame in game.
As hinted above, some people may image the frame as an anchor for the tower (maybe there was too many people at the tower to get a clear image) then the frame and the tower are the same waypoint and are likely to be rejected as duplicate.
as long as there isnt any watermarks on the image or taken off google images and still clearly shows the oringal point of intrest, your normaly able to freely edit them to tidy up the image
Thanks! I may just do that.