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UrbanPhotos · Aug 27, 2003, 8:50 PM

Chicago's tallest all-residential building. Sammy Sosa aparently lives in this tower.

I think I centered it really well, especially considering that I have a tendency to improperly center or tilt the horizon despite trying not to! This is an ucropped picture.

tkmckay · Aug 28, 2003, 12:57 AM

Great shot! That is one tall tower to be living in....at least for me... since I hate heights and won't even get on my roof which is about 15' up. :P I also love the way the clouds reflect upon the glass all the way down the building...very nice indeed!

Klaus DK · Aug 28, 2003, 2:37 AM

Nice shot - but to get a real feeling of how high this building is - you could get something else into the shot for compareness

UrbanPhotos · Aug 28, 2003, 8:05 PM

Klaus, I agree, but I like the drama of this angle.

Here's another picture I have of the building.

After tinkering around with the rotation, I decided that there's no definite "up" in this photo.

selvin · Aug 28, 2003, 11:07 PM

Urban photo.
The followng is not intended to hijack your topic but I was in Chicago a few weeks ago and like you took a picture of the Lakeview Tower

But personally, I found another building not too far away with a more stylish art-deco look rather than the Mies Van de Rohe look of the Lakeview Tower.

Keep clicking away.

Joshua B · Aug 29, 2003, 10:39 AM

Selvin, your angle of the Lakeview Tower shows some landscaping could make the view of the tower a lot more pleasant. Somebody needs to yank out those weeds!

ShallowRunner · Aug 29, 2003, 10:10 PM

UrbanPhotos,

What camera was the very first picture taken with? The DSCF717? I see that you own this camera, and was just wondering what your thoughts were on it. I own one....but I am not 100% satisfied with it. It may be my inexperience with digital cameras. My previous digicam was a Sony DSCS75. I mainly used this camera on auto and it took fantastic pictures whether the lens was zoomed all the way out or in and no matter the resolution setting. What I am finding with my new camera is that images do not seem to be as sharp with the lens zoomed out at its fullest. Is this normal? And if I set it to the highest resolution....There seems to be alot of noise...even if the condition seem fine. This is with the settings on the auto mode, fine quality. The images are definitely less clearer at the higher resolutions. I set my monitor up to 1600X1200 with 32M color and they still look bad. Is this normal or do I have a camera issue?

If anyone can help with this matter please let me know. Sorry...not trying to take away from this post (urbanphoto) but if the first image was taken with the 717 then....maybe I'm doing something wrong.

ShallowRunner

brtsergio · Aug 30, 2003, 8:46 AM

UrbanPhotos I like your first one, quite impressive !
I thing I would have taken the same shot too

selvin, the first one is the reply to Klaus hint !

UrbanPhotos · Sep 13, 2003, 1:36 AM

What keeps happening to the posts in this thread?

Some of them dissappeared, and I made a post about it, and now that post is gone too!

Aug 27, 2003, 8:50 PM	#1
UrbanPhotos Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 382	Lake Point Tower - Chicago Chicago's tallest all-residential building. Sammy Sosa aparently lives in this tower. I think I centered it really well, especially considering that I have a tendency to improperly center or tilt the horizon despite trying not to! This is an ucropped picture.

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Aug 28, 2003, 12:57 AM	#2
tkmckay Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 259	Great shot! That is one tall tower to be living in....at least for me... since I hate heights and won't even get on my roof which is about 15' up. :P I also love the way the clouds reflect upon the glass all the way down the building...very nice indeed!

Aug 28, 2003, 2:37 AM	#3
Klaus DK Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,216	Nice shot - but to get a real feeling of how high this building is - you could get something else into the shot for compareness

Aug 28, 2003, 8:05 PM	#4
UrbanPhotos Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 382	Klaus, I agree, but I like the drama of this angle. Here's another picture I have of the building. After tinkering around with the rotation, I decided that there's no definite "up" in this photo.

Aug 28, 2003, 11:07 PM	#5
selvin Moderator Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 7,204	Urban photo. The followng is not intended to hijack your topic but I was in Chicago a few weeks ago and like you took a picture of the Lakeview Tower But personally, I found another building not too far away with a more stylish art-deco look rather than the Mies Van de Rohe look of the Lakeview Tower. Keep clicking away.

Aug 29, 2003, 10:39 AM	#6
Joshua B Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 596	Selvin, your angle of the Lakeview Tower shows some landscaping could make the view of the tower a lot more pleasant. Somebody needs to yank out those weeds!

Aug 29, 2003, 10:10 PM	#7
ShallowRunner Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 75	UrbanPhotos, What camera was the very first picture taken with? The DSCF717? I see that you own this camera, and was just wondering what your thoughts were on it. I own one....but I am not 100% satisfied with it. It may be my inexperience with digital cameras. My previous digicam was a Sony DSCS75. I mainly used this camera on auto and it took fantastic pictures whether the lens was zoomed all the way out or in and no matter the resolution setting. What I am finding with my new camera is that images do not seem to be as sharp with the lens zoomed out at its fullest. Is this normal? And if I set it to the highest resolution....There seems to be alot of noise...even if the condition seem fine. This is with the settings on the auto mode, fine quality. The images are definitely less clearer at the higher resolutions. I set my monitor up to 1600X1200 with 32M color and they still look bad. Is this normal or do I have a camera issue? If anyone can help with this matter please let me know. Sorry...not trying to take away from this post (urbanphoto) but if the first image was taken with the 717 then....maybe I'm doing something wrong. ShallowRunner

Aug 30, 2003, 8:46 AM	#8
brtsergio Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 1,435	UrbanPhotos I like your first one, quite impressive ! I thing I would have taken the same shot too selvin, the first one is the reply to Klaus hint !

Sep 13, 2003, 1:36 AM	#9
UrbanPhotos Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 382	What keeps happening to the posts in this thread? Some of them dissappeared, and I made a post about it, and now that post is gone too!