Posts in Category: Chicago
Chicago Beauty II
Since I made everyone wait so long for this second installment of Chicago Beauty, I’ll give you two for the price of one. The previous post in this series describes my intention for posting these images. The sky was a wonderful painting of many colors that evening, and I couldn’t have been in a better location to observe it. I’ll have another couple images coming your way in tomorrow night’s post. And I promise to actually post them tomorrow night. In the mean time, enjoy these images, leave a comment, and share with others using Facebook and Twitter!
“Candy Wheel”
Technical Info – Nikon D300 | Exposure: 1/1250 | Aperture: f/4 | ISO: 200 | EV: 0 | Editing Software: Adobe Lightroom 3
Candy Wheel
“Chicago Fire”
Technical Info – Nikon D300 | Exposure: 1/500 | Aperture: f/4 | ISO: 200 | EV: +0.7 | Editing Software: Adobe Lightroom 3
Chicago Fire
Chicago Beauty
Nothing quite compares to a beautiful sunset over the Chicago skyline – a light breeze blowing in off the lake while the seagulls caw overhead. Summer is coming back to Chicago, and this will be the first year that I won’t be there to appreciate it since 1988. I hope this helps YOU appreciate it and anticipate it even more. This week, I’ll be posting more pictures that I took on this same evening. If you want to cheat, you can check out my Flickr page. I’d give you the link, but I don’t want you to cheat. I want you to come back to my blog later this week.
“Evening Beauty”
Technical Info: Nikon D300 | Exposure: 1/800 | Aperture: f/4 | ISO: 200 | EV: -1
Evening Beauty
The Columbia Yacht Club
Hey everyone! I apologize for not posting more images recently, but I hope you enjoy this one. I sure do. For a little background – this picture was taken during an afternoon that Katie and I spent walking around downtown Chicago last summer. I think it was either the 4th of July or the day before. It was a really hot afternoon, and I really wanted to take one of these boats out on the lake. Anyway, I didn’t bring my Nikon with me, so we ended up taking all the pictures that day with her Canon point and shoot. This picture goes to show you that not all good photographs have to be taken with an expensive camera/lens setup. As long as you can frame a shot and get good lighting, it’s all about using the editing tools at your disposal to obtain an end result.
Below i have posted a two-image slideshow that demonstrates this picture before and after, which I thought might be interesting to everyone. I used Adobe Lightroom 3.0 to create the “after” image seen above and in the slideshow below. I’d love to hear your thoughts, criticisms, and/or questions in the Comments section below. Remember, almost all of the images you see on my blog are also for sale on RedBubble!
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