WOW!! you got this so grain-free with ISO 1600? That Canon body's looking mighty tempting if that's so and you didn't have to do any trickery to tone down the noise. INCREDIBLE! Congratulations!
Of course you know by now that this is a great shot :P Nice work!
I personally don't like the stars because they make it look a little messy or dirty... sort of like when I get a swarm of gnats in a shot. I think there are enough little dots with all the lights in the bottom half to clean up the sky but anyhoo. It'd also be cool if you could show more to the left.. more of the shoreline. Definitely worthy of the blue ribbon. Congrats!
I love the stars in the sky... it just blows my mind that you were able to capture that. Also - neat to see the 'light pollution' coming off of the city. A beautiful shot.
I've only been to Chicago twice, but I've seen this very scene. I love the capture here. The composition and perspective is fantastic. I like how you can see the Sears Tower above everything!
Stunning shot. I've viewed this on my laptop and desktop machine and I can see the stars on my LCD screen but not my CRT. Shame.
So, just in case others can't see them either, there are lots of stars in the sky above the horizon which really makes the composition! Well deserved placing.
Edit: just noticed the scores below the 5 mark. What are these people on? What were they hoping for from this challenge? Nuts!!
No sympathy for the Cubs, but very nice photo - it unquestionably deserved a ribbon. Can't say the Cubs deserve anything :-) I also gotta question the intelligence of anybody who gave this below a 6.
Achiral - I said it once and I will say it again. This is the best pure image on DPC since the Matrix challenge and "You think that's air you're breathing now?"
Whoever gave this a 2 or a 3 or even a 4 - I would just ADORE you to PM me your reasons. I think you're smoking something. 2? Look again.
First of all, thanks to everyone who voted and commented on my photo. I was astounded by the results, and I'm thankful for them. I just uploaded a slightly higher resolution and wider version of the photo to my website. You can view it Here. Thanks again to everyone.
nice job buddy. as your old college roommate you need to thank me for everything i taught you. just kidding, you've out done me by far and will probably continue to. this won't be your last ribbon i'm sure.
This is a beautiful shot. By far my favourite for the challenge. It's nice to see a night shot that is properly done. Most of the other ones have too much haze or were overexposed. There does seem to be some noise in the sky, but you could pass that off as stars. Excellent work. Keep it up!
Winner!!! HANDS DOWN!!
Where do I start? Its perfect, the exposure, the view of almost an entire city, I'm Stunned!
This is a postcard! One of the best images Ive seen in a long time ,including some very tough competition in this challenge included..
Where did you take this picture from to get this amazing view!
I wish I could give it a 20, but a HUGE 10 will have to do!
It looks a bit bigger than Chorley (pop. 100,000) that's for sure ; )
Awesome. Breathtaking shot. Would love to see the detail in it at full resolution as I have a feeling that 640 pixels just doesn't do it justice.
Has to get lumped in with all the other 10s I'm afraid, but only because I can't give it 11.
Interesting image. I would like to know how this was done. I see the moon rising, but are the white specks in the sky stars? If so, I don't recognize any constellations. Never saw a night shot in a big city that shows so many sky objects. An excellent night shot.
I sure hope when the challege is over, that you submit this to a somewhere for a large dollar amount! Truely what one thinks of when they think of urban landscape. Great work! 20 if I could, but 10 is all I can! -danny
base 1: 1/1; challenge: 3/3; technical: 2/3; aesthetics: 2/3; total: 8
I would have cropped it lower by about 1 cm or so. Lovely balance of light and colors -- incredible sharpness.
WOW!!!!!!! This is so impressive overall! The colors, the sharpness, the clarity is amazing! The only thing to me is that there are so many lights it almost makes the picture look noisy! ;)
wow. this is superb. what a mass of light! very pretty, but what a hell of light pollution. a very very nice shot. I like how it has such clarity that you can even see the stars too. sweet.
Holy shiza! This one made me pee my pants. Absolutely amazing! You even managed to get some stars in their. I can't believe just how breathtaking this is. I'm giving you a 12. This better win, cause it's much better then the rest of the shots I've seen so far. CONGRATS!
This could certainly be a contender! Chicago is beautiful from the air -- I remember being in awe as I flew into there once! I may have panned down just a little bit to get a little less sky, but this is certainly a great shot, and may easily wear a ribbon by the end of the weekend!
Incredible aerial shot. Lovely evening colour. But the photo is very pixelated and grainy. It almost looks like a shot of a poster. The horizon is only slightly above the vertical centre of the image, so maybe positioning it either hiher or lower would have worked well. Extra points for bravery - this must have been shot either from a plane or some kind of tower. I would be wuzzy by now.
Gorgous shot!!! I love the lights absolutely beautiful, also like the frame with this one, it looks like a postcard...but what are the speckles in the sky...stars?
Wow - that's cool. It's obvious where the lake is :-) There appears to be some spots at the top of the picture, but now I'm just picking... Nicely done.
Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh That is totally cool. Just a tad overblown in the highlights but still a super cool picture. Is that through glass or on top of a building???? I wonder. Very nice shot. 10
Great scene, particularly with the dark lake off to the side.
Very good entry. From the Hanncock Building ? If I had to make suggestions - maybe slightly earlier in the evening so the sky wasn't totally black, but I don't know then if hte lights are on and maybe a touch less sky/ more pointed downwards if you could ? A very strong entry for the theme.
Very nice photo of a great city. I live here! (but the traffic sucks)
Where did you shoot this from? It looks as though you are almost as high up as the top of the Hancock building.
I would have liked a slightly wider angle to see more lake and still keep the Sears Tower in the photo.
OMG this is a gorgeous shot! This is one of my favorites by far. Great job, you have just the right amount of contrast to keep the noise level down.. this is wonderful. Great job10
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