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Chicago Redux

© Jim Macino

Chicago Redux

Uploaded: April 22, 2006

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f5.6, 28 seconds, 47mm, location, night, etc. Reworked the sky. Removed light and particle pollution.

Comments

Lynne Morris April 22, 2006

What a wonderful pan view of chicago at night Jim, great work! #432329

Paula Kelly April 23, 2006

Excellent image. WoW ! is the word for this photo. #2675752

Charlene Taylor April 23, 2006

This is really a rare and perfect picture Jim! I love this! #2677637

Amy JACKSON April 23, 2006

Beautiful, Jim!!! Awesome work!! #2677839

Jim Macino April 23, 2006

Thanks Lynne, Paula, Charlene, and Amy. This is the latest rendering of sixteen 8MB RAW pictures that make up the panorarama. The project is about 6 months old, and has included 5 learning trips to Chicago to study lighting, wind, artificial horizon, and freezing temps. This sequence was shot at about 10:30 pm on a Friday night. #2678074

Janine Russell level-classic April 23, 2006

Jim, excellent colors, lighting, exposure and clarity. #2678848

May 19, 2006

Jim this is a lovely photo would love tp have a copy for a large wall hanging,love how the stars stand out.The lighting is also gorgeous and I took a peek at your gallery love your car collection,nice work.
Coleen Rohrbaugh. #2786012

Diane Dupuis May 21, 2006

Superb!!! #2794108

Lynne Morris May 21, 2006

Many congratulations and good luck in the next round :) #2796040

Charlene Taylor May 22, 2006

Congratulations on making finalist with this exceptional picture Jim! #2798457

Nadya Johnson May 22, 2006

Don't know how I ever missed this, Jim. Being from Chicago, I am usually looking for Chicago shots. It is absolutely fabulous! Congratulations on this stunning finalist! #2799204

Jim Macino May 22, 2006

Thanks to Janine, Colleen, Diane, Lynne, Charlene and Nadya. Nadya, I think one sure way to slip past the radar, is to enter the contest via your gallery. It seems that if you saved a picture to your gallery 2 weeks ago, and entered it into the contest today, it would bypass the "incoming photos" and fall in place with photos that were "incoming" 2 weeks ago. So, you can just about guarantee that nobody will comment on your photo, good or bad. Getting too technical here...thanks again. #2799302

john dunne May 22, 2006

Outstanding. I hope you win. #2800881

Luigi Di Serio level-classic May 22, 2006

This is beyond amazing! I am happy its a winner, one of the best skylines ever #2802473

Lynne Morris May 23, 2006

Congratulations on being a winner Jim, well deserved! #2806906

Janine Russell level-classic May 23, 2006

Jim, congratulations on your Second Place win. #2807146

Mike F. Anderson May 24, 2006

Having lived in Chicago at one time and having seen the skyline so many times in so many different environments, I'm still sitting here looking at this excellent presentation in awe! An incredible job Jim, and a well deserved win! #2809053

Cathy Barrows May 24, 2006

Congrats on your win #2810869

Jim Macino May 24, 2006

John, Luigi, Lynne, Janine, Mike, Cathy, thank you all so much. I try to make it a point to look over the galleries of the folks that took time to send me a comment. There are some real photographic works in your galleries, thanks again for the nod. #2811103

May 24, 2006

Congratulations,I had commented ealerier to this photo,I am Glad it placed in the winnings.CR #2811340

Donna W. Neal May 25, 2006

A beautiful and well deserved winner, congratulations Jim #2814678

Nobu Nagase May 27, 2006

Simply fabulous!!!
Congratulations on your great win!!! #2823343

Jim Macino May 30, 2006

Colleen, Donna, & Nobi, Thank you all.

Jim #2831197

Nadya Johnson May 30, 2006

Congratulations Jim, on this fabulous win! #2833400

Ronald F. Fischer June 02, 2006

A belated but big congratulations on this winner!!! #2843839

Iryna Varabei June 03, 2006

This is just stunning! You made it a fabolous city! Congrts! #2848288

Jim Macino June 05, 2006

Thank you to Nadya and Ronald. Iryna, spaceba bolshoi. I enjoyed looking through all your galleries. Good stuff! #2856319

Sharrie Thomas July 19, 2006

Wow, what a great job! I like the way you worked the sky. #3051306

Michele Jarvis September 05, 2006

Congrats on the 2nd place winning of this photo. Personally I think it should have been the grand prize winner. It is fabulous! It is amazing that you used 8 photos to make this one. What program did you use to stitch it all together so seamlessly? Gorgeous everything!!!! #3271552

Jim Macino September 09, 2006

Thank you Michele,
Actually it started out as 16 photos. I used photoshop to merge the 16 RAW frames. Each one was 8+ megs, so the automatic photomerge ran out of gas, even though my computer has 4 GB of RAM.
So, it took about 3 weeks of after hours work to manually merge the frames.
Each frame lost from 10% to 50% in width to correct for barrel distortion, keystoning, etc. Grand prize winner? Nah! Not creative enough ;o)
#3288027

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