Looking east from the Union Station exit at Adams St. It was snowing heavily, and very cold that day. I picked the slower shutter speed to give some motion to the snow, and to let me get away with a narrower aperture at my ISO setting.
In Apeture: cropped, adjusted exposure (-.45), contrast (+.17), and saturation (0)
In Photoshop: resized for web, added the simple border.
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Place: 353 out of 624 Avg (all users): 5.4514 Avg (commenters): 7.0000 Avg (participants): 5.4296 Avg (non-participants): 5.5250 Views since voting: 736 Views during voting: 215 Votes: 175 Comments: 8 Favorites: 0
I think this is a decent shot. It has that uncomfortable feel of a rough winter and the snowstorm really adds to that feeling. I think you captured it well.
Positives:
A nice wintery cityscape capture. I cannot describe why, but this captures the feeling of a big city(Chicago) in winter and that is its strength. Nicely done in BW to capture that feeling.
Perhaps it is because I have been through Chicago a couple times and have an appreciation for the city.
Technicals:
The technicals are good and exposure fine across the full range of luminosity. Composition wise there is nothing compelling about it, according to the 'rules', but I really like it anyway. It has lighting balance that works well an it has a technical feel to it, including sharpening, that cannot be denied as being good.
The challenge:
As a free study entry in challenges that have a lot of high quality entries this one suffers from 'subtlety'. It is to subtle to be appreciated in the time that most DPC voters have to devote to making a judgement.
This is a fine image!
I find it interesting that, like routerguy666's cityscape before, that this image has a statistical overabundance of 2s. Might be for a similar reason. It requires viewers to spend more time evaluating it to appreciate it's traits and typically the DPC voting process does not lend itself well to that.
Positives:
A nice wintery cityscape capture. I cannot describe why, but this captures the feeling of a big city(Chicago) in winter and that is its strength. Nicely done in BW to capture that feeling.
Perhaps it is because I have been through Chicago a couple times and have an appreciation for the city.
Technicals:
The technicals are good and exposure fine across the full range of luminosity. Composition wise there is nothing compelling about it, according to the 'rules', but I really like it anyway. It has lighting balance that works well an it has a technical feel to it, including sharpening, that cannot be denied as being good.
The challenge:
As a free study entry in challenges that have a lot of high quality entries this one suffers from 'subtlety'. It is to subtle to be appreciated in the time that most DPC voters have to devote to making a judgement.
the joys of this photo are subtle, but profound. If I sit with it for just two moments, it transports me to I-don't-know-where and I-don't-know-when, and I wonder if it's someplace I come from, someplace I belong. the precipitation is as beautiful as any I've ever seen. 10
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