why we work -- journal

Friday, September 25, 2009

6:02am

6:38am

7:21am

and then it got completely gray :(

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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

With two clouded-out sunrises so far this week, I was happy to have a somewhat decent sunset to shoot last night.

The new Trump International hotel/residences and the old IBM building (move your mouse over the image to view the black and white version).

And I thought I would share this mistake. This is what happens when you are making an HDR image, but you accidentally select source images not only with different exposures but with different views. It kind of looks like another city, or maybe the same view but in the future.

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Monday, September 21, 2009

The sunflower lot has peaked, will need to find another diversion next weekend...

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Sunday, September 20, 2009

I slept in this am and missed what was probably a great pre-dawn scene :( Here's the view around 6:40.

And here's a pano from Wednesday that I just found on the point and shoot camera. Managed to not crop out the moon this time :)

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Thursday, September 17, 2009

A few more sunflower pictures from last weekend...

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I'll have to get myself over there to the sunflower field before it is too late. I went a few weeks ago but it was too early. You were able to get some really nice ones here.

Cheers...

Todd in Chicago (that was also me that posted the comments about the sunrise shots anon).

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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

The moon was lower in the sky today, so tomorrow's position might be even better if there is enough of a crescent left to see.

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Monday, September 14, 2009

I went over to that lot with all the sunflowers that I noticed last year and shot a few pictures this weekend.

And of course, since I was awake this morning I shot a few pics of the sunrise. This pano actually includes the new Trump building on the right (click for larger version).

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Jennifer....beautiful work. I think the portrait shot would make a lovely print. The pano is very nice but I think those blending points may stick out in a print. Great stuff

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Sunday, September 13, 2009

An hour this morning:

6:06 am : Still dark. Fog or low clouds hang over the buildings along Michigan Avenue

6:39 am : The sun peeked over the horizon at 6:30, but there's usually better light when it is between or directly behind certain buildings.

7:09 am : The sun is on the South side of the Hancock building, bathing everything to the west in rays of filtered sunlight. Strange shadows of the buildings appear in the clouds.

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Sheesh! You guys get up WAY too early for me! ;-) As usual, fantastic sunrise shots and of course what a view! If I look out my window I see the brick wall of the Tribune building. ;-) Do you do some HDR on some of these? PhotoMatix?

Cheers...

Todd "in Chicago"

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I use HDR when the scene requires a range of exposures to capture it. For example, here is the original of the hdr image shown above. And yes, I use Photomatix.

Glad that you like the shots !

-Jennifer

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Saturday, September 12, 2009

Up early - on a Saturday... but at least there was an interesting sunrise. At first it seemed like the fog would mask everything, but then the clouds shifted producing am ethereal effect for a few miles along the lakefront.

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Jen - love your sunrise photos ... you guys have a great view to wake up to every morning. The latest is one of my favorites.

Erin

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Friday, September 11, 2009

The cats causing chaos before 5am today, and there was less fog than earlier in the week so I was able to snap a few decent sunrise pictures. According to my iPhone astronomy app (pUniverse - suggestions for others welcome) that's Mars above the Hancock building in the first image.

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http://star-map.fr/

StarMap pro version is great.

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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Thursday Sunrise

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Saturday, September 05, 2009

Time lapse of the fog along Michigan Avenue yesterday

And the moonrise last night

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Hey! You caught the fog....excellent. I swear it actually looked thicker than that down at street level. Kewl....

Todd in Chicago

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Friday, September 04, 2009

Sunrise this morning

And then a half hour later the clouds rolled in...

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Wednesday, September 02, 2009

September is usually a decent month for stunning sunrises, and we're off to a good start so far. The silhouetted buildings and the perfectly cloudless sky this morning produced an interesting filtered light effect.

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