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Vacation photoshoot · Chicago
In short
Vacation photoshoot in Chicago starts at $325: 60 min on location with a photographer who works in Chicago, and 40 edited photos delivered to a private gallery within 48–72 hours.
Why choose Vacation photoshoot in Chicago?
A vacation photoshoot in Chicago is a one-hour walking route through two or three downtown locations that delivers 40 retouched photographs within 48 to 72 hours, priced from $325. Most visitors to Chicago stay downtown, close to Michigan Avenue, so the route starts where they already are rather than across town. The classic hour links Millennium Park, the Chicago Riverwalk and a bridge over the Chicago River, all walkable in sneakers between breakfast and the first architecture cruise. Timing does most of the work: the same plaza that is nearly empty at 6:30am is crowded by late morning.
Worth knowing about Chicago
Millennium Park opens daily at 6am and closes at 11pm, and Crown Fountain’s water runs only from May to October 13. From Friday to Sunday after 6pm, anyone under 18 must be accompanied by an adult aged 21 or older, who may escort up to four young people. A Chicago vacation session with teenagers is therefore booked for the morning rather than a weekend evening there.
What does the session in Chicago look like?
- Cloud Gate, Millennium Park
- The sculpture every visitor wants in the album, photographed in the first hour after the park opens.
- Crown Fountain, Millennium Park
- Children splashing between two glass towers, in the months when the water is running.
- The DuSable Bridge and Riverwalk
- The river, the bridge houses and the Wrigley Building in one frame, five minutes on foot from the park.
What does vacation photoshoot in Chicago include?
- 40 retouched photographs
- A walking route through two or three locations
- Local photographer, local knowledge of light and crowds
- Private online gallery within 48–72 hours
- Print release for personal use
FAQ — Vacation photoshoot in Chicago
What time should a Chicago vacation photoshoot at the Bean start?
At or soon after 6am, when Millennium Park opens daily. Cloud Gate is nearly empty in that first hour and busy for the rest of the day, so a one-hour Chicago vacation session that begins there at opening gets clean frames of the sculpture before walking on to the Riverwalk while the light is still low.
Can our vacation photos of Cloud Gate be used commercially?
Not without the artist’s approval. The City of Chicago states that Cloud Gate is copyrighted and trademarked to Anish Kapoor and that commercial use of images of it is prohibited unless he approves. A Chicago vacation gallery for personal use, posted to friends or printed at home, is not affected by that restriction.