Travel Photography in Chicago, Standing Tall for Up Magazine

I am a regular contributor to Europe’s leading inflight magazine: UP. Thanks to them I have visited many amazing places on planet Earth. One of the regular jobs I do for UP is photographing for articles in the magazine, which includes a lot of traveling. This time, I was for about one week in Chicago, photographing for the cover theme article in that issue. The images I have to capture at these kinds of jobs include street photography, landscape, portraits, interiors, even food photography, I also do a feature on the two lovely hotels we stayed in. Basically, everything we do during the trip is being captured. What I like about that type of job is, it takes me back to my early days of photography, where I have only my camera and the subject matter, looking for the best angles and interesting points of view. It brings out the pure essence of photography. I do usually take some kind sos extra light source with me, in Chicago I took Profoto C1PLUS, it was actually amazing and really brought allot to the table, as you will see below.

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What gear did I take?

Going for a whole week abroad I had to shrink my gear to the most functional and practical mix I could imagine. I decided to take my Fujifilm GFX50s which turned out to be a thing I will do in future trips of the same kind. The dynamic range it has lets me photograph in any conditions with ease and getting amazing results in return. I took my two lenses for it, the 32-64mm which was most of the times on my camera and the 120mm Macro that I planned to use for the food part, but it also helped me capture some amazing shots of Fenway Park. Everything was packed in my ThinkTank Naked ShapeShifter 2 Backpack, and when I was shooting I was using the Think Tank Belt System. I also had My 3LeggedThing monopod with me and a lot of Sandisk SD cards, I had a chance to take the new Profoto C1 Plus flash.

Here is a video of my team and I utilizing the Profoto C1 in Chicago

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And here are some of the images where I used the Profoto C1:

Roka Sushi

Roka Sushi

Roka Sushi

Roka Sushi

Roka Sushi

Roka Sushi

Purple Pig

Mad Social

Mad Social

Mad Social

Mad Social

House of Blues

Martha Mae, Art Supplies & Beautiful Things

Matthew Buccilla, Cowboys and Astronauts

Chef Executive at the Omni Hotel Chicago

Chess Records

Chess Records

Chess Records

Chess Records

Chess Records

Chess Records

 

THOSE ARE SOME OF MY FAVORITE IMAGES FROM THE TRIP CREATED USING THE prfoto C1 PLUS

 

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