[rrfierce]

What a great trip! Managed to wangle our way into the Virgin Club house at Heathrow before the flight, then flew and returned on upper class, the only way to travel

Chicago is an awesome city, 4 days was long enough to see the sights, lots of walking and shopping. Most of the pics are taken on the lens kit, 18-55mm, polorising filter and minimal photoshop to tidy up levels etc. Couple were taken on the 50mm f1.8 - manual focus can be tricky! Its my first real attempt at DLSR photography and only had the D40 for 3 weeks, so go easy

More here

[BananaTiger]

I like the blues in your second one? Was that taken with your polariser?

[rrfierce]

yeah most of the sunny ones were taken with the poloriser maxed out lol

[rizingstar]

Tremendous set the first 6 really are excellent

[pixelpixel]

Nice work

[sbowler]

Love the 2nd one.

[Dennis Leighton]

Some lovely shots there-particularly the second in the Millenium Park which you may like to know was the second placed image in the Panachallenge this month see here

[hot-fuzz]

What a great set of shots.
Get them in an album and show them off as your holiday snaps. They are great.

[ash]

The 3rd one is WOW! Bloody amazing!

[philaitman]

No.2 Rocks big time.
The rest are damn fine too

[rizingstar]

Its my first real attempt at DLSR photography and only had the D40 for 3 weeks

Well,i for one aint getting caught up in splashing out for equipment,and these prove it IMO

[stevegreen]

Really like the 2nd, the people on the left give it a great sense of scale The saturation throughout the set is lovely apart from the last one with the highlights blown which detracts somewhat.

[rrfierce]

do you mean the last pic i posted or the last one of the flickr set?

[T0MAT01]

Very nice set of shots, 3 & 4 stand out for me but they're all good.

[rrfierce]

thanks for the comments!

[stevegreen]

Originally Posted by rrfierce

do you mean the last pic i posted or the last one of the flickr set?

This one

Originally Posted by rrfierce

[daveleeuk]

in number 2 where are you? have you edited yourself out or are you the guy kneeling down in the reflection, great idea for a pic thouh!

Number 3 is incredible, the blue 'reflections' on the ground are beautiful! really well done!

[rrfierce]

yeah i'm the guy kneeling down in the "bean" pic.

The one of the traffic lights i applied a "lomo" filter in photoshop, not sure whether its worked very well tbh.

[daveleeuk]

you should try making it black and white bar the colours on the traffic lights, not very original but might look cool

(assuking you have raw files)

[daveleeuk]

cancel my last post, doesnt work well at all, but that may be because its already got other effects on