Leo Burnett Building
This is a picture of the Leo Burnett Building in the Loop, home of United Airlines. I was meeting Jenn for lunch last week and captured this. I changed it pretty heavily in Lightroom but I’m happy with the black and white version of this photo. The sun was bright and the reflection was great to help make this photo more dramatic. (more…)
Funky Budda
I took a long photo-walk today and came up with quite a bit of good stuff. But this guy was my favorite!
ISO 100, 29mm, f6.3, 1/160sec, UV filter
This yellow flower is part of a large bouquet that Jenn brought home last week. I took quite a few pictures of the bouquet but these yellow flowers (does anyone know what they are??) stood out. This is about as micro as I can get with my camera with a distance of out 6″ with a full 55mm on my kit lens.
In lightroom I simply upped the temperature about +30 to warm it up. When I took the picture it was a bright sunny day with no clouds and pretty direct light, so I liked warming up the yellows a little bit. After that I added a brightness/contrast layer in Photoshop and added +5 brightness with +10 contrast. ISO100, 55mm, f5.6, 1/160 sec.
Market
Near my apartment is the Chicago French Market. It’s an indoor market with a lot of vendors and some really great produce and fresh proteins at cheap prices. It’s a great alternative to the grocery store. I walked in with my camera last week and tried to capture all of the colors and flavors of the spring. This red pepper was sitting with it’s brothers and sisters on a great market-style display. The red is so vibrant!
I had a crazy high ISO for this (1600) because I wasn’t using my built-in flash and the lighting was overhead and harsh. 1/20 sec, 55mm, f5.6. No real post-editing for this on – I took the Lightroom “punch” preset and tweaked the contrast a touch.
Comments are always welcome!
Coke
Copyright Ryan Bing 2011
Taking my walk the other day I found this Coke can on the ground with some rocks. I loved the contrast of the big red can, slightly crushed, among what looked like ruins of something else. I took another shot with the can a little closer to the center of the frame but I liked this one better since I think your eyes immediately focus on the main item but then discover other things (cigarette butts, twigs, wires, etc.) as you discover the rest of the photo.
In lightroom I added some vignetting and put a contrast gradient from the can up and to the top left corner. The detail and sharpness I left alone – I felt my camera did a pretty good job picking up a lot of the little things. I turned contrast up on the whole frame too to get rid of some of the glare that was in the right side above the can. I’ve ordered filters and a hood for my camera since I tend to take a lot of outside shots that fill with all sorts of light.
Thanks, comments are welcome.
My afternoon
I caught this shot as I was walking by the post office. I played with Lightroom quite a bit for this one. What do you think?
DPChallenge Entry – Honey
- So sunny, but so sad
I recently came upon the website DPChallenge and entered into their most recent open photo challenge. The subject was “honey” and was to be a tribute to the disappearance of honey bees that has recently made the news headlines. I had a bunch of flowers I bought Jenn when she got home from her last international trip. The flowers had wilted over the week since she got home and I thought they looked sad. I had a taken a bunch of pictures from below the bunch, focusing on three dropping flowers with the white ceiling as the background to help them pop. As I stood up I caught the moving El train behind the bunch and I thought that having a sad flower in the city would be even more appropriate. Chicago in the spring is a wonderful time of year because of all the blooms and trees filling in. It’s full of new life! How dramatic would it be to have a flower on a bright shining morning look so sad…why? No bees.
I hope to continue to post these pictures and others I find are a good showing. Please comment.
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