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Chicago Grid at Night (i.imgur.com)

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[–]raabco 7 points8 points ago

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I can see my house from here!

[–]Trapped_in_Reddit 27 points28 points ago

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The Grid.
A digital frontier.
I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
What do they look like? Ships, motorcycles.
With the circuits like freeways.
I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see.
And then, one day... I got in.

[–]PoliteSarcasticThing 10 points11 points ago

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Tron reference AND a relevant username. Well done.

[–]chicago69 1 point2 points ago

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http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2Jl6fC/grooveshark.com/album/TRON%252BLEGACY%252BR3CONFIGUR3D/6199020

[–]Unicyclesclearlywin[S] 1 point2 points ago

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Learn to link that link like this....and in case you didn't get my message....Hi

[–]chicago69 1 point2 points ago

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lol thanks

[–]Unicyclesclearlywin[S] 1 point2 points ago

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To be of actual help......it's in formatting help which is to the bottom right of your text box.

[–]chicago69 1 point2 points ago

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LIKE THIS?

[–]Unicyclesclearlywin[S] 1 point2 points ago

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Does the narwhal bacon at midnight?

[–]chicago69 1 point2 points ago

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WHEN?!?

[–]Unicyclesclearlywin[S] 2 points3 points ago

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Someone came through and downvoted everything....UPVOTE ALL THE COMMENTS!!!

[–]PoliteSarcasticThing 0 points1 point ago

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Upvote ALL the things?

[–]Bradlyeon 0 points1 point ago

Damn you, now Daft Punk is playing in my head!!!

[–]otlatnom 5 points6 points ago

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I think I see my dad. The son of a bitch is down there somewhere.

[–]ChampionofElevenses 8 points9 points ago

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Like molten lava. Gorgeous similarity in the city and sky coloring.

[–]Unicyclesclearlywin[S] 7 points8 points ago

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This is like water?

[–]ChampionofElevenses 8 points9 points ago

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Yes.

The discord between the tranquil avenue coloring and the green and purple sky is disquieting.

[–]Unicyclesclearlywin[S] 6 points7 points ago

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Can I hire you to write everything for me?....ever

[–]ChampionofElevenses 6 points7 points ago

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SAP assumes she is being made fun of and shuffles off.

[–]ProteusLux 4 points5 points ago

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Aww, beautiful picture, insightful concise comment and a cute humorous reply. It's the reddit trifecta.

[–]chicago69 3 points4 points ago

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my apartment

[–]Xiaz89 2 points3 points ago

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I know where you live!

[–]RyanOnymous 16 points17 points ago

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needs more HDR

[–]atomicthumbs 7 points8 points ago

You know what? I tried. I downloaded this, threw it into Photoshop, and tried to run it through the tone mapping adjustment.

I could not make it look worse. I could destroy the image by messing with the exposure to make it too bright or too dark, or block out the highlights with saturation all the way up, but that was it. Literally everything else I tried made it look better.

[–]ZenDragon 6 points7 points ago

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Slightly higher quality version. Can't seem to track down original artist...

[–]plateoshrimp 5 points6 points ago

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Its by Trey Ratcliff.

[–]ZenDragon 0 points1 point ago

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Good show sir! Thanks.

[–]plateoshrimp 0 points1 point ago

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No problem, I knew immediately it was his work. He has some amazing shots, and seems like a really cool fella. Seen him on a few tech shows.

[–]DrWallyHayes 2 points3 points ago

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Somewhere in that enormous stretch of land, Jake and Elwood are driving through a mall.

[–]steakmane 5 points6 points ago

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Only YOU can prevent HDR abuse

[–]dilwap 1 point2 points ago

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Looks like Harry Dresden's Little Chicago.

[–]polaroidgeek 1 point2 points ago

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I Immediately began searching for my house. Not in the photo ;(

[–]BearsChief 1 point2 points ago

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Was just in Chicago on a school trip last week, the view from the top of the Sears tower looked EXACTLY like this. It's so beautiful up there.

[–]metalninja626 1 point2 points ago

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its strange, i walk from right to left across that pic on my way to school every day. i pass the presidential towers and marvel at how tall they are. and then this picture shows how tiny they are compared to the sears tower. just awesome

[–]StringString 1 point2 points ago

You can say a lot about the Americans...but they sure know how to built stuff in squares.

[–]MrBurd 2 points3 points ago

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Relevant.

[–]Sytrus 2 points3 points ago

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OW MY EYES. HDR needs to stop.

[–]FatalLozenge 1 point2 points ago

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beautiful!!!

[–]plateoshrimp 0 points1 point ago

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If anyone is wondering, this is by Trey Ratcliff. He is an amazing photographer who does HDR perfectly. Check out his site StuckInCustoms for more great pictures. Here is more about this particular picture.

[–]IdLeicaRefund 6 points7 points ago

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Well if he does it like this one, it's far from perfect.

[–]Semajal -5 points-4 points ago

what would you say is wrong with this picture?

[–]IdLeicaRefund 7 points8 points ago

  • Lack of depth
  • Lack of contrast
  • Over the top tone mapping
  • Feel of the scene is lost
  • Implying it's bad to have parts of the photo that are black
  • Looks like someone threw up on the photo
  • Horizon not straight
  • Unnatural colours

[–]atomicthumbs 2 points3 points ago

plus, he popularized tone mapping and is indirectly responsible for the torrent of clown diarrhea that is most HDR photography today

[–]Semajal -5 points-4 points ago

  • depth? well the alignment of the roads draws your eye up to the horizon, I wouldn't say it didn't have depth.

  • not so much light/dark but the colour contrast is fantastic

  • so much of this is subjective but it doesn't seem over the top

  • What SHOULD the scene be? you won't catch specific detail from higher up, and if it is really dark you are a bit stuck on what to do

  • subjective again really, there is no exact rule book

  • not something I could think

  • okay this is slightly fair, but without having an original to crop it looks good either way.

  • well of course there are unnatural colours. Its a city... The blue/orange look works well, and is pretty accurate to how it would be if our eyes could see more. Bulk of it seems to come from snow on the buildings. What colour do you think a cityscape with sodium lights should be though?

HDR in any form gets so much hate on Reddit though. I however love this, especially the foreground detail on the buildings and the great use of the rule of thirds.

[–]sylas_zanj 1 point2 points ago

There is no depth beyond what can be achieved using a few of lines. The roads look like they are on a flat plane perpendicular to the viewer, just angled to produce the illusion of depth. Purely geometric depth, which visually foreshortens the scene from it's actual appearance. There is no sense that they actually recede into space aside from their apparent convergence.

[–]Kruse 0 points1 point ago

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It looks so damn cold.

[–]brianbot5000 0 points1 point ago

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So flat.

[–]accharbs 0 points1 point ago

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So many steamed hotdogs in this pic.

[–]CornFlakesR1337 0 points1 point ago

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Somebody needs to shop in a Mass Effect style light bloom on the horizon

[–]Sam0a 0 points1 point ago

TIL the streets of Chicago light on fire at night.

[–]heypal121 0 points1 point ago

ladies and gentlemen, my alma mater is that cluster of buildings on the left side middle of the picture. that is the gorgeous university of illinois-chicago. this picture was taken from the sears/willis skydeck facing west.

[–]BoringUsername1 0 points1 point ago

Ridiculously Photogenic City. I smell a new meme in the making...

[–]AndreasG32 0 points1 point ago

Great Photograph!

[–]elRobot 0 points1 point ago

If you look slightly left of the center, you can see where I parked my light cy... Wait, wrong grid.

[–]aazav 0 points1 point ago

Yes, we've all seen it.

[–]psYberspRe4Dd 0 points1 point ago

/r/CityPorn
Also if not posted there already repost it there.

[–]wingsit 0 points1 point ago

I can see my apartment in this picture

[–]etc_fantus 0 points1 point ago

like in tron movie

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

I hate this city. Moving there destroyed a lot of things in my life. I refuse to ever go back.

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[–]notahippie76 1 point2 points ago

http://i.imgur.com/jsGjs.png

[–]zejjez 0 points1 point ago

True story. Sometimes I forget the Willis name because my brain refuses to save it in memory.

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[–]Unicyclesclearlywin[S] 2 points3 points ago

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Edit: My post, my fucking title.

[–]Un-needed_Edit -2 points-1 points ago

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http://i.imgur.com/XiT92.jpg

[–]tracelight24 -1 points0 points ago

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this is the desktop i've been looking for.

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