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movie house mural

Michael McGuire — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:53:24 +0000

I made this image in the Portage Park neighborhood of Chicago–just outside the old Portage theater.

portage park theater

Michael McGuire — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:09:16 +0000

The Portage Park Theater marquee. Chicago, IL

roller coaster

Michael McGuire — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:47:52 +0000

Taken at the local Halloween Hallow event in Mokena, IL.

hosta leaf

Michael McGuire — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:30:55 +0000

I created this at the Chicago Botanic Gardens.

garden wall

Michael McGuire — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 23:29:26 +0000

Created this at the Chicago Botanic Gardens.

infrared arch

Michael McGuire — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:10:29 +0000

Took this with Tokina 11mm. A superwide angle lens is the only way to photograph the arch. In postprocessing, using LightZone, I applied an infrared B/W filter with dialed-down opacity.

aidan b/w portrait

Michael McGuire — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:25:28 +0000

Studio portrait with Rembrandt lighting to Aidan’s left via monolight and softbox and a white board reflector placed to his right for fill. Cropped close, converted to B/W, touched up done in post production.

rose

Michael McGuire — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:54:11 +0000

Made this image in the backyard with Lensbaby Composer with macro filters attached.

portrait of aidan

Michael McGuire — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 21:02:34 +0000

Aidan gave me about five minutes of cooperation (which was a rare gift) to take some photos of him at the Four Rivers Environmental Education Center in Channahon, IL. The cloud cover made for nice diffuse lighting and the head wind kept Aidan’s hair off his face. I shot about 80 frames in less than 5 minutes. This was a keeper.

supermoon

Michael McGuire — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 01:13:20 +0000

The “supermoon” of March 19, 2011 was not easy to capture given cloud cover.