Chicago @ Night

Tdcompton

I know... I know... There are a million photos of Chicago's skyline out there, but this was something I wanted to try.. And now I wanted to share them and get some feedback from you guys.

So forgive me.. Here are the Chicago shots.

And yes.. I know the watermark is obnoxious.. But this forums has no right click protection so I throw it on there to be clearly visible.. :dunno













Thanks for giving them a look!

dadwtwins

Very cool....Chicago has very fond memories for me and you did the city skyline some serious justice with these awesome shots

BradfordBenn

Very nice shots. I am curious did you do any processing?

Overfocused

I live 40 minutes south and see the skyline stuff all the time...redundancy set aside, I say #1 especially has the goodness. Maybe bring out the shadows on the bottom strip if there's anything in there, it'd be more interesting I think.


I also think skyline photos are the asian carp of chicago photography. HAHA

It took me about 50 minutes just to get a successful set of pan images when I tried it once... gotta love them shaky boats :bash

Tdcompton

dadwtwins>> Thank you for the kind words!

bradfordbenn>> My PP was really small.. slight straightening, cloned out the path of a helicopter, and adding my ©... But other than that, they are as shot.

overfocused>> these were shot from the planetarium.. I dunno how anyone can shoot from a boat!

JimKarczewski

Good stuff.. my only issue is #2 seems a little OOF? Maybe it's me..

Personally (and really, that's just me) I like to white balance so the buildings rid themselves of that horrid yellow the camera picks up from the Sodium Vapor lights downtown... That's just me... Other than that, one day I'd like to get out there to catch the fireworks. I'd go tonight, but I'm still cameraless with all my gear at canon.

gecko0

Tdcompton wrote: »

dadwtwins>> Thank you for the kind words!

bradfordbenn>> My PP was really small.. slight straightening, cloned out the path of a helicopter, and adding my ©... But other than that, they are as shot.

overfocused>> these were shot from the planetarium.. I dunno how anyone can shoot from a boat!

#1 is my favorite as well. The planetarium was the location I didn't have time to get to, so I missed out on the "cliche" panorama from that spot. Of course, I love cliche...and then I know it's "mine" as well.

Thanks for sharing!

Toonartist

They are all great shots but I really like the first one, something about the composition and colours that works really well.

Duncan

JimKarczewski

gecko0 wrote: »

#1 is my favorite as well. The planetarium was the location I didn't have time to get to, so I missed out on the "cliche" panorama from that spot. Of course, I love cliche...and then I know it's "mine" as well.

Thanks for sharing!

that Cliche has made me a decent amount of $$$$ doing a pano from the Planetarium with all the buildings and their blackhawks swag. But yeah, it's overdone, a lot.....

brancaleone

Chicago by night
The first is a real good shot. Compliments.

brancaleone

Tdcompton

Thank you everyone for taking the time to view the images and write your comments!

Jim Karczewski>> My lens is at Nikon and has been since June.. I haven't heard a word from them.. Getting angry!

That second shot has wondered me as well.. I thought that the lens was perhaphs fogged over, but when I checked it was perfectly fine and had no smudges.. When I pulled the images off of the memory card I realized that every image from that lens has a very strange bokeh to it... But the lenses were borrowed so I don't know if perhaps that's normal for that lens.