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Illuminations Dessert Party Tickets Now On Sale

Illuminations Dessert Party Tickets Now On Sale

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Today we are excited to announce that tickets for the Illuminations Dessert Party during Photo Magic 2013 are now on sale. Thanks to Kingdom Camera Rentals for sponsoring the event and allowing us to offer you the lowest ticket price possible. Tickets are priced at $35 per person and include a great spot to watch (and photograph) Illuminations along with plenty of great dessert, prizes and more!

We also invite you to check out the forum for a special section on Photo Magic 2013. Here you can sign up for dining reservations, help us plan the daily schedules and get to know the other members who will be attending. The forum has become very popular with members attending Photo Magic and we encourage you to join us!

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Go with the Flo

Go with the Flo

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Today’s photo comes from the new Art of Animation resort, I snapped this photo yesterday while at Art of Animation doing some work for a yet to be announced Disney Photography Blog project (what a tease, right?). The Cars wing at AoA is by far my favorite. It seems to have the most detail, and the different Cars characters that they have out really pop in photographs. Flo is clearly very low to the ground, so from a compositional standpoint, I made sure to get as low to the ground as possible too. As an aside, I have done a lot of shooting lately with the Olympus OM-D E-M5 as opposed to my Canon 5D Mark III. I go in waves with what gear I’m really into, but right now, it is the Oly for sure. I think part of it has to do with the fact that it’s getting hotter here in Central Florida, and having that lightweight camera system really helps. The huge Lowepro backpack with lots of large gear in it definitely adds to the feeling of the heat and humidity. For most shooting, I feel that the image quality of the OM-D is usually enough. I think the only major limitations of the system for me is that I don’t have an ultra wide angle aside from a fisheye for it, and that the depth of field is nowhere near as shallow as you can achieve with a full frame DSLR. For example, today’s shot was taken [...]

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Moroccan Nights

Moroccan Nights

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Today’s photo once again comes from Epcot and through a fisheye lens. This photo comes from one of my favorite Epcot pavilions, as well as one that I think is rather well suited for fisheye shooting. In Morocco at World Showcase, there are lots of tight places. Those are my favorite places to shoot fisheye. I love creating the illusion of an area of room being huge by using the ultra wide focal length. Morocco has a few of these, between this spot, the area in the back near the restaurant, and the Fez House room with all the pillars. The textures in the walls and ground are also great for taking photos in. Another reason I chose to share this photo is that I love how the starbursts turned out. With the Rokinon manual focus lenses, I’ve noticed wonderful starbursts at any aperture higher than f/4. This one was at f/8, and those lights just twinkle. This shot was taken with the Olympus OM-D E-M5 and the Rokinon 7.5mm F3.5 Fisheye Lens, both of which are available on Amazon. If you ever shop at Amazon, please click the links here in the article since doing so helps support our site! Thanks for reading!

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Epcot Fiber Optics

Epcot Fiber Optics

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Today’s photo starts the week off with some of the coolest pavement at WDW! Lately, I haven’t had a ton of time to head into the parks with a tripod and capture some fun stuff. I had a free night this past Friday, so I headed into Epcot hoping for a sunset and some nice night shooting. The sunset was a dud, but the blue hour and nighttime shots were pretty great! This was one of the blue hour shots, which turned out to be a little bit more difficult than it looks to capture. These fiber optics in the ground are awesome. We all understand this. What this means though is that every little kid and family that walks through this area will stop and stand right on top of them for a few minutes at a time! So, this becomes an exercise in patience, but it is worth it when getting the shot you’re looking for. Compositionally, I went fisheye for this one since I hadn’t done a ton of fisheye shooting lately, and changing things up can usually result in getting the creative juices flowing once again. I set up my tripod to its lowest setting and got as close to the fiber optics in the foreground as I could. I then took 3 exposures at f/8, creating a bracket of [-2, 0, +2]. Once I got home, I blended them, adjusted the white balance to be a tiny bit cooler than what the camera captured, and [...]

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Flo’s V8 Cafe

Flo’s V8 Cafe

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Today’s photo comes from Radiator Springs, otherwise known as Cars Land at Disney California Adventure. This photo has a fun story to it. I was in the park shooting with Mike Greening and Gregg Cooper, friends who have both contributed their talents to the site here before. We wanted to close down Cars Land and shoot it as long as possible, but as it turned out that night, a large company had rented out the area for a private party. Disney set up catering spots as well as tables for folks to sit at during the event, making the photography a little bit tricky that night. Regardless, we made it work and had a great time doing so. It seems that the shot everyone (myself included) has done is this beautiful restaurant (which has GREAT food, by the way) is to go ultra wide straight down the middle. I thought this would make for a little bit more unique of a photo, if for no reason other than the fact that it isn’t the one that everyone has taken and posted online somewhere. With this scene, the neon is so bright that getting an exposure for the sky is rather difficult, and kind of ends up looking fake, so I just ended up going with the all black sky. This shot was taken with the Canon EOS 5D Mark III and the Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM lens, both of which are available at Amazon. If you do any shopping at all [...]

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