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A portion of Chicago’s skyline is bent and twisted as it reflects in the polished steel skin of Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate, colloquially known as “The Bean”, in Millennium Park.
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Jeff Clow's been pushing the Topaz application so I downloaded a trial version. I think this is one of my favorite shots of Cloudgate as it is not too over the top and might be worthy of a print. Check it out large.
Here are the steps taken to produce this shot:
1. Get up at about 5:30am in Chicago
2. Take a cab to Millennium Park
3. Set up your camera if you're carrying a tripod.
4. Wait for sunrise.
5. Politely ask rent-a-cop to move
6. Fire off as many shots as you can before it is time to go to your business meeting.
7. Archive your shots and save for inclement days (blizzard coming in Colorado)
8. Export into photoshop
9. Reduce noise using your application of choice.
10 Play with levels.
11. Run Topaz Adjust (I tried Psychedelic)
12. Realize that the preset is way over the top and fade down about 75%)
13. Bring back into Lightroom and run a cross process preset.
14. Play with the sliders until you like what you see.
15.. Export as jpg and upload.
16. Realize that was one hour of your life that you can't get back and that you probably should have went to the gym...
We were in Chicago to take in a highly entertaining version of Fiddler on the Roof on a windy, cold Wednesday that couldn't decide whether it wanted to rain or snow, and after devouring an obligatory Chicago pizza, we made a stop at the iconic Bean. The damp weather highlighted the underpinnings of Cloudgate, and, unlike last week when the rain kept skaters off the ice, the Bean provided a perfect reflection of skaters on a busy rink with a Chicago skyline backdrop.
when visiting Chicago, don't forget to swing by Millennium Park in the Loop and see and photograph one of the most famous landmarks in the city...The Bean...
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Believe it or not, this is the first time I have shot Cloud Gate...I generally stay away from really popular attractions.
A bright, but setting sun creates a highly contrasted reflection in Anish Kapoor's Cloudgate sculpture.
While this is hardly the best photo I've ever taken, it achieved my highest Interestingness score in Explore at #12 on April 10th, 2008, FWIW.
This is me--and this is the famous Cloud Gate, a sculpture by Anish Kapoor in Millennium Park. I have had the privilege of seeing another Kapoor sculpture: Marsyas, a massive construction that took up the entire length of the Tate Modern's massive turbine hall. I'm a fan of Kapoor now, as both of these sculptures were incredible, mind boggling, and interactive in this really fun, playful way.
Cloud Gate sculpture (aka "The Bean"), Millennium Park, Chicago, IL USA
360-degree panorama stitched via PTGui.
Cloud Gate is British artist Anish Kapoor's first public outdoor work installed in the United States.
The 110-ton elliptical sculpture is forged of a seamless series of 168 stainless steel plates welded together, its highly polished exterior has no visible seams, which reflect Chicago’s famous skyline and the clouds above. A 12-foot-high arch provides a "gate" to the concave chamber beneath the sculpture, inviting visitors to touch its mirror-like surface and see their image reflected back from a variety of perspectives. The Bean because of its shape, measures 33 by 66 by 42 feet (10 by 20 by 13 m).
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Cloudgate em Chicago. Foto tirada com exposição longa.
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The Bean - Cloudgate in Chicago. Photo taken with a neutral density filter. Long exposure to blur the people moving about.
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