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Challenge: Where You Live (Advanced Editing I)
Collection: Architecture
Camera: Olympus E-20P
Location: Chicago
Date: Apr 25, 2004
Galleries: Cityscape, Landscape
Date Uploaded: Apr 25, 2004

 This is a view of downtown Chicago taken from Grant Park on a beautiful spring morning. The colors were enhanced slightly, the image was sharpened and Neat Image was used. I did not feel any cropping was necessary.

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Place: 23 out of 176
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Votes: 162
Comments: 22
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 05/03/2004 07:11:02 PM
Great depth and beautiful range of colors. Thats a nice lookin park, definitely postcard worthy. The buildings look almost like cardboard peices.

Keep up the good work...
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05/02/2004 07:36:29 PM
a perfect image for a postcard :)
it says a lot about the city, good luck
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 05/02/2004 01:38:07 PM
Nice shot using the trees to frame up the skyline.
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 05/02/2004 10:17:04 AM
i really like the colour of this photo. -9
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 05/01/2004 10:52:42 AM
my pet peeve is tilted picture - straighten it and it will look sooo mcuh better - 7
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 04/30/2004 12:04:10 PM
Very nice. Good composition, nice color. Sharpness could be improved.
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 04/30/2004 02:23:41 AM
Bit too much of the unsharp mask tool going on here. The trees look fantastic though, almost like a painting - i think i might have been tempted to crop out some of the sky just to draw more attention to the (gorgeous) landscaping. I also love the fact that the image is so devoid of people. And, sigh, those trees. Plus, those buildings on the left - great old architecture. Lighting is very good. Perhaps half a dozen steps to your right might have given a more symmtrically pleasing result but in all, very good. I'm probably docking you a point for the excessive unsharpening, but i don't think i'm being unfair giving an 8.
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 04/29/2004 09:32:48 AM
Very nice picture, but some of the verticals appear to be slightly slanted.
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 04/28/2004 03:43:23 PM
I like much: Saturation of colors. Beauty of the scene. Cleanliness of the park. The convergence point.
I like less: -
Score: 10
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 04/28/2004 11:48:00 AM
Glow effect gives it an other-worldliness...which I like
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 04/27/2004 07:12:34 PM
Maby a different crop would look better? It bothers me that the picture burns in the upper right corner. Like the colors very much. Red buildings vs. green trees. I can see a good shot taken from the path on the left up on the red buildings on the left. Good job though on this one :)
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 04/27/2004 03:03:43 PM
My office is on the left ... the Torco building!!! A different perspective of Chicago, that's for sure. Very nice! I'm so biased. There's a tilt of the buildings in the background that could have been corrected easily. But it's a beauty.
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 04/27/2004 01:18:39 PM
Really good clean shot. Perfectly placed.
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 04/27/2004 01:18:03 PM
Nice lighting and composition. Would have had a bit more interest if a jogger/walker were on the path - but that's a very minor point.
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 04/27/2004 11:51:11 AM
I've long thought that Chicago is one of the most photogenic cities - good composition, nice shot
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 04/27/2004 09:23:02 AM
I think you did a pretty good job bringing out the darker areas of the photo, it looks like you had to do a fair bit of compensation for a bright sky. The bit of white surrounding the skyline is just a bit disturbing but over the photo works very wellâ€Â¦9
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 04/27/2004 05:58:39 AM
Does everything slope to the left? Great colors.
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 04/26/2004 10:49:17 PM
Ooh, pretty, great colors, very vibrant
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 04/26/2004 02:53:29 PM
This is a great picture I love the pleasing colors and soft tones. I think this captures the mixture of big city life and that of nature
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 04/26/2004 09:20:27 AM
Lincoln Park? Looks great, super dof, color and focus.....Go Cubbies.
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 04/26/2004 03:39:48 AM
Have you burnt in some of the sky detail - looks like all the buildings have halo's around them?
 04/25/2004 08:26:16 PM
Very good composition but unfortunately the background is overexposed, easily correctable with PS.
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