teekathepony
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Oct 2, 2009
Hello everyone!
In honour of All Hallows Eve I will be switching up the theme of my update today. It's all about the spooks today folks!
Anyone do anything special for Halloween? I made sure to buy candy that I like, since we won't get any kids at our door (too far out in the sticks!) and I will spend the evening watching the door anyway, and maybe some Star Trek (NG) which I've recently become hooked on after 27 years of never seeing a Star Trek anything.
Then we head in to my Mother in Law's for fireworks, she puts them on every year.
We are now a mere 11 days away from our trip! Just one full work week left (and a day and a half this week too.)
I have another Day-to-Day plan post, and then one last (probably!) Photography Lesson for you today. I'll jump right to it!
Day 6
November 17
Our last real day in WDW and what do we have planned?
Boma - Flavors of Africa Dinner 7:45 PM
And that's it.
No really! You thought the previous day was easy going, well this one tops it. Our plan is to hang around our resort all day and really, fully explore and enjoy it.
I want to see the whole resort top to bottom!
I want to swim to my heart's content.
Definitely need to use the water slide!
Hopefully I'll get to take some pictures all over! Then for a nice late dinner it's off to Boma.
As many times as I've eaten here for breakfast, I've yet to have a dinner! I'm very excited for that, I love this place. We chose it also so that we don't have to leave the resort all day!
Of course, we just may change our minds...
...and leave the resort after all, but then we have that option if we do get bored. Good chance we will. We have enough park tickets if we wanted to go somewhere this day. There's a good chance I'll want to hit up some more Christmas season celebrations!
It will be another surprise and it's kind of exciting to go to WDW with a fully open day, free to decide where to go at the spur of the moment. Cool!
So that's it for day 6. I hope to make it back again before I go. I've been better lately so it's a possibility. If anyone wants to follow me on Twitter or Instagram, I'm teekathepony on both and might get a few live pictures and updates in. If you'd like to be friends on Facebook, please feel free to PM me and I'll send out a request!
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Photography 101
Lesson 11: General Disney Photo Tips
This lesson will be for a general list of tips for better photography in Disney World. Not the technical side -- we've done that already. These are some tips I've found and some of my own.
- Take the typical pictures. Yeah some will tell you not to waste your time taking the Castle from the front shot ("Buy a postcard instead!") but I say take the shot. Taking your own is more special than buying it, isn't it?
- Further to that last, make sure you take the posed shots in front of the icons. So typical, but necessary. Those are the ones I look back on most!
- Be sure to try new angles as well as the typical. Try to do something you haven't seen before. Try to tell a story with your photo. Think about the composition a little!
- Take pictures of the people in your party -- your kids, parents, partner, yourself. Without the people in some (most) of your pictures, they could be of anyone's vacation. I like to try to catch a picture of Johnny while he's getting a picture of the castle and unaware of me. I get some really nice ones this way. If you have kids, take pictures of them watching the parade/show/fireworks. It will mean more to you than any parade picture! If you don't have kids, do it anyway with whoever you're with! Try taking them from the back, get a little to the side, a little of their face for the expression, and maybe in the background, a little of what they're excited about.
- Stop worrying about how you look in photos. I include this because it's my biggest downfall. I hate pictures of myself, always. It's why I became a photographer -- so I could spend my time on the other side of the camera. The result... well sometimes it looks like Johnny went on vacation alone. If your self image is poor like mine, just remember how much your kids/parents/relatives/friends would love to see those pictures of YOU. I'm getting there.
- Make sure to capture the details. We all say it all the time -- that's what makes Disney different from any other amusement park, right? So that's obviously an important factor to you, right? So grab those light fixtures, interesting pathways, signs and hidden Mickeys.
- Seems obvious, but guys really, extra batteries! ESPECIALLY if your camera takes a lithium battery! AA batteries you can probably get in the park, but not a square lithium. Get an extra or two, have them charged and ready to go.
- One huge 64gb memory card... seems like a good idea but not always. If that one card corrupts, there goes everything instead of just a day or a time. And if, worst case scenario, your card does corrupt or you delete all your files by accident, stop everything! Take that card out, keep it safe, do not touch it again and do not take another photo with it. Get yourself a new memory card, continue with your trip and when you get home, get to a photography store and they can probably recover your pictures.
- If you're forgetful, like me, take pictures of your room number, parking space, rental car, Photopass card, passport, ID, anything that you could potentially lose and really need. Also, put your name and phone number somewhere on your camera and memory cards.
- As soon as you get home (or even while you're there, if you carry a laptop) back up all your pictures. Burn them to a disc and put it somewhere safe. I have a fireproof safe with a DVD of my wedding photos and each vacation. If my hard drive crashes, Flickr goes under and my house burns down, I still have a copy. You know, as long as there are disc drives. Which is kind of going obsolete too. But you get the point.
What are your photography tips? Let's hear them all and make a big list with them!
In honour of All Hallows Eve I will be switching up the theme of my update today. It's all about the spooks today folks!
Anyone do anything special for Halloween? I made sure to buy candy that I like, since we won't get any kids at our door (too far out in the sticks!) and I will spend the evening watching the door anyway, and maybe some Star Trek (NG) which I've recently become hooked on after 27 years of never seeing a Star Trek anything.
Then we head in to my Mother in Law's for fireworks, she puts them on every year.
We are now a mere 11 days away from our trip! Just one full work week left (and a day and a half this week too.)
I have another Day-to-Day plan post, and then one last (probably!) Photography Lesson for you today. I'll jump right to it!
Day 6
November 17
Our last real day in WDW and what do we have planned?
Boma - Flavors of Africa Dinner 7:45 PM
And that's it.
No really! You thought the previous day was easy going, well this one tops it. Our plan is to hang around our resort all day and really, fully explore and enjoy it.
I want to see the whole resort top to bottom!
I want to swim to my heart's content.
Definitely need to use the water slide!
Hopefully I'll get to take some pictures all over! Then for a nice late dinner it's off to Boma.
As many times as I've eaten here for breakfast, I've yet to have a dinner! I'm very excited for that, I love this place. We chose it also so that we don't have to leave the resort all day!
Of course, we just may change our minds...
...and leave the resort after all, but then we have that option if we do get bored. Good chance we will. We have enough park tickets if we wanted to go somewhere this day. There's a good chance I'll want to hit up some more Christmas season celebrations!
It will be another surprise and it's kind of exciting to go to WDW with a fully open day, free to decide where to go at the spur of the moment. Cool!
So that's it for day 6. I hope to make it back again before I go. I've been better lately so it's a possibility. If anyone wants to follow me on Twitter or Instagram, I'm teekathepony on both and might get a few live pictures and updates in. If you'd like to be friends on Facebook, please feel free to PM me and I'll send out a request!
*******************************************************
Photography 101
Lesson 11: General Disney Photo Tips
This lesson will be for a general list of tips for better photography in Disney World. Not the technical side -- we've done that already. These are some tips I've found and some of my own.
- Take the typical pictures. Yeah some will tell you not to waste your time taking the Castle from the front shot ("Buy a postcard instead!") but I say take the shot. Taking your own is more special than buying it, isn't it?
- Further to that last, make sure you take the posed shots in front of the icons. So typical, but necessary. Those are the ones I look back on most!
- Be sure to try new angles as well as the typical. Try to do something you haven't seen before. Try to tell a story with your photo. Think about the composition a little!
- Take pictures of the people in your party -- your kids, parents, partner, yourself. Without the people in some (most) of your pictures, they could be of anyone's vacation. I like to try to catch a picture of Johnny while he's getting a picture of the castle and unaware of me. I get some really nice ones this way. If you have kids, take pictures of them watching the parade/show/fireworks. It will mean more to you than any parade picture! If you don't have kids, do it anyway with whoever you're with! Try taking them from the back, get a little to the side, a little of their face for the expression, and maybe in the background, a little of what they're excited about.
- Stop worrying about how you look in photos. I include this because it's my biggest downfall. I hate pictures of myself, always. It's why I became a photographer -- so I could spend my time on the other side of the camera. The result... well sometimes it looks like Johnny went on vacation alone. If your self image is poor like mine, just remember how much your kids/parents/relatives/friends would love to see those pictures of YOU. I'm getting there.
- Make sure to capture the details. We all say it all the time -- that's what makes Disney different from any other amusement park, right? So that's obviously an important factor to you, right? So grab those light fixtures, interesting pathways, signs and hidden Mickeys.
- Seems obvious, but guys really, extra batteries! ESPECIALLY if your camera takes a lithium battery! AA batteries you can probably get in the park, but not a square lithium. Get an extra or two, have them charged and ready to go.
- One huge 64gb memory card... seems like a good idea but not always. If that one card corrupts, there goes everything instead of just a day or a time. And if, worst case scenario, your card does corrupt or you delete all your files by accident, stop everything! Take that card out, keep it safe, do not touch it again and do not take another photo with it. Get yourself a new memory card, continue with your trip and when you get home, get to a photography store and they can probably recover your pictures.
- If you're forgetful, like me, take pictures of your room number, parking space, rental car, Photopass card, passport, ID, anything that you could potentially lose and really need. Also, put your name and phone number somewhere on your camera and memory cards.
- As soon as you get home (or even while you're there, if you carry a laptop) back up all your pictures. Burn them to a disc and put it somewhere safe. I have a fireproof safe with a DVD of my wedding photos and each vacation. If my hard drive crashes, Flickr goes under and my house burns down, I still have a copy. You know, as long as there are disc drives. Which is kind of going obsolete too. But you get the point.
What are your photography tips? Let's hear them all and make a big list with them!
Le sigh. Oh well, more chocolate for me. 
Happy Halloween!
oh my gosh I'm so excited for you!! I love day 6!! I highly suggest getting over to Kidani as well, they have 3 animal lookout areas and it's less busy than Jambo 
However, that being said, it's really cool that you go and tag your tree and take your dogs with you! I bet that's the perfect way to start the holiday season.
