Theme Parks: Dark Ride Pics
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There is a lot to learn and is so overwhelming when first starting out. I ended up reading the instruction book a lot, reading articles online and just messing with the camera around the house to see how each setting worked. I had my camera about 5 months before I made it a theme park (BGT) and I made sure I was ready by then lol. Looking back though I wasnt ready at all and still had no idea what I was doing 
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^ lol, I dont even think you need that when you can find so much info on the internet for free. Of course you can buy it if you want but I like the free approach personally :happy:
I learned a lot also from reading this site run by a bunch of outstanding photographers who are huge Disney fans. A lot of what they show can be applied to normal everyday photography also www.disneyphotographyblog.com
I learned a lot also from reading this site run by a bunch of outstanding photographers who are huge Disney fans. A lot of what they show can be applied to normal everyday photography also www.disneyphotographyblog.com
So this picture wasn't as well defined as I thought it was on my camera, but I'm still pretty proud of it.
Thanks! I had hoped ET would come out more defined, but I'm pretty proud that I got anything you could even decipher
Did the lens struggle to focus? Ive found mine struggle a lot on the dark rides so my last time on Haunted Mansion I put in on manual focus and got more shots than I normally do since the camera wasn't fighting the focus.
I had it on manual focus. Disney Photography Blog has a dark ride tutorial that I had read before my trip and tried to do everything on that.
ET is tough because the ride vehicle moves pretty quick.
Ive gotten a lot of tips and things I would have never even thought about from that site, its a great resource.
Yeah I have yet to test my luck out on ET. The combination of it being pretty dark and the vehicles moving fast aren't a good mix
Yeah I have yet to test my luck out on ET. The combination of it being pretty dark and the vehicles moving fast aren't a good mix
I got a seat in the front, so decided to try my luck with getting a few shots of ET raised out of the basket. I got the one above and a similar one with the moon silhouetting ET.
Just got done shooting the past 4 hours at the Magic Kingdom. Think I got some decent shots and hopefully can get a few posted tonight as long as the Internet at the hotel lets me upload them.
