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I will be in Chicago attending a conferene for a few days and I would like some input on a couple of things. I am staying in the Grant Park area and mostly plan to walk around.

1) What are some key local sites to capture highlights of Chicago. Parks, buildings, river shots, ...

2) What two lenses from the following line-up would you take with you:

17-35 2.8
28-70 3.5/4.5D
70-200 2.8
105VR 2.8
85 1.4

Thanks for your help.

Steve
 
If it were me, I would take the 17-35 and the 70-200. You will want the wide for downtown shots and cityscapes and the 70-200 for isolation shots. A lot of it depends on your shooting style. Since you will be right downtown, there are lots of photos to be made.
BTW, what camera?
 
You couldn't pick a better area to capture the heart of Chicago.

I would pick the 17-35 and the 70-200.

From Grant Park, you will see many of the best Chicago architectural treasures including the lake front which is void of boats at the moment. Sunrise and no boats would make for some great shots of the planetarium, the aquarium and the Field museum.

Turn around and you've got new and old famous landmarks. Walk a few blocks north and you've got "Cloudscape aka the Bean" and Millenium Park (just a couple years old)

Regards,
Joe R
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'the fun is in the getting there'
 
because I'm a sucky, lazy snap shooter that hates to lug around equipment. Maybe if someone were paying me really good money, then I'd tote around some of the gear you list.

Here some pics from Chicago...the first one of a deck-swabber and his gal pal. the seaman got in my face, claiming that i was sneaking a picture of him. When he got a little too mouthy i took him to the curb where i subdued him with an arm-bar move that i learned in survival school years ago. I felt bad for the girlfriend who was very polite during the entire affair.



tours for sheep:





this goat was so loud (and boring) i was one nano second from jumping into the river...



don't waste your money on the "world famous" pizza (gag):



3 sheets to the wind:





a left-leaning city. got love them taxes. thanks, "slim"...keep smokn' :



bye...


smarquis said:
I will be in Chicago attending a conferene for a few days and I would
like some input on a couple of things. I am staying in the Grant
Park area and mostly plan to walk around.

1) What are some key local sites to capture highlights of Chicago.
Parks, buildings, river shots, ...

2) What two lenses from the following line-up would you take with you:

17-35 2.8
28-70 3.5/4.5D
70-200 2.8
105VR 2.8
85 1.4

Thanks for your help.

Steve
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Grant Park, Lincoln Park Zoo, Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, Science and Industry Museum, Garfield Park Arboretum, Chicago Institute of Art, top of Sears Tower. All great places to take pictures.
 
borisboomboom said:
tc333 said:
Well the seaman was not exactly wrong was he?
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of course he was. how else did he end up face-first on the ground,
humiliated before his girlfriend?
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Looks to me like he was right to me. Unless you define right and wrong by who can beat up who. Between your bragging about subduing a person, calling people on the same boat as you "sheep", denigrating the local cuisine (which looked pretty good) and labeling the city as "left-leaning" like that's a bad thing, I have to wonder why you visited Chicago in the first place.
 
I would definately take the 70-200 , and also , the 17-35 . You should be able to take some wonderful photos with those 2 .

Walk by the Planetarium , and you can get a really nice skyline shot in the evening . Hence , you will need a tripod for night-time .
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All NIKON

member of WSSA (the Worldwide Squirrel Shooters Association) as member# 159
 
hayesk said:
Looks to me like he was right to me. Unless you define right and
wrong by who can beat up who. Between your bragging about subduing a
person, calling people on the same boat as you "sheep", denigrating
the local cuisine (which looked pretty good) and labeling the city as
"left-leaning" like that's a bad thing, I have to wonder why you
visited Chicago in the first place.
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cso performing "pictures at an exhibition" by mussorgsky/ravel.

otherwise, i'd wonder myself.

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Menacer said:
A free service. Meet a local that knows the city and will show you
around, give you history and so on. Can't beat the price either.

http://www.chicagogreeter.com/
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That looks great on the surface, but I'd be very leery on who they'd pair me with. I'd want to meet all the greeters in person first, and then pick my own. I like brunettes, 5-4, 105...the quiet, mousy, librarian-types.

Imagine getting stuck with someone you don't "mesh" with. How do you tell someone you don't care for them and you're gonna bail? Well, I wouldn't have a problem, but for the rest of you...
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Sorry, they do not setup greeters with old drunks that pick fights on street corners.

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Menace about taking pictures of anything and anybody

Erwin
 
I was there in 2002, I think, and I saw the library which had just undergone a complete renovation, modernizing an old building from the 1920's or so.

Then I found out it was new construction! Beautiful, both inside and out.
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Kevin
 
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