Marlton Mom
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- Sep 27, 2003
Marlton Mom is back from the World but she is VERY BUSY with Christmas stuff. This is killing me because I want to work on my pictures and I have no time to do that or write a photography trip report. Ack!
But there is one picture/story that just couldn't wait.... you see that Tom Bricker fella MADE me spend $600 + bucks on a Tokina 11-16 super duper wide angle lens. How did he do that you ask?? Well just look at some of the pix he has taken with it! Twisted my arm I tell ya!
So any way, I realized that it was W I D E angle that I craved for my photography, sort of the missing link if you will, in my repertoire. It seems like initially we want Photography to take us deeper into a subject and then we get to the point where we realize that the bigger picture is, well, the BIGGER picture. At least that's what happened with me any way.
So this Tom Bricker fella goes and takes that Spectro Magic picture.... you know, the one where he is up on the train platform at the entrance to the Magic Kingdom and he sets the exposure to long and captures the streaks of color. I REALLY LOVE that picture!
It got me to thinking..... how could I accomplish capturing color like that..... but in a different way.
You know how before you go to the world you have all these ideas about what you're going to see/do/find/photograph ?? Well I had em! OF course I'm smart enough to realize that the best made plans go to pieces in the heat of the battle and it's the unforeseen that gets you in the butt or provides that magical moment that was totally unexpected.
The picture below is perhaps one of them.
I had thought about that Spectro Magic picture where Tom is still and the 'World' is moving and I immediately thought, "what would a picture look like if the photographer was moving and the 'World' was still..... like in Tomorrowland.... like on the Tomorrowland Transportation Authority ride!"
THAT was it!
I couldn't wait to get to TomorrowLand! I was sure that all those Night shots I wanted to get were there! (they weren't, they were elsewhere but more on that in the trip report!) As luck would have it I only had 1 night to shoot in the Magic Kingdom. One of my Top 5 things to see on this trip was SpectroMagic, which was right before Wishes fireworks spectacular........
Uh oh! The parks were CROWDED! I got to the center hub before 5:45 and it was packed with people already! I decided to go with plan B and set up in front of the Crystal Palace against the railing, where all the strollers were parked, to get a PEOPLE FREE spot for Wishes. I had to choose between Wishes and Spectro, and Spectro lost out yet again! Oh well......... Next trip!
So Wishes it was and I fired away! I got some good ones, which will be posted later, after the holiday madness and Mom duties diminish. A cup of tea and a couple of hours (at Least!) on photoshop are in my future.
After Wishes I was exhausted! I crawled over to Adventureland and got myself a Dole whip and conked out for a good half an hour. Then I started to work my way over to Tomorrowland. It was then, at some point that I realized that my freshly charged battery was almost DEAD!!!! Wishes had done me in! I had thought about getting a second battery but at $50 plus bucks a pop I just couldn't afford it and I was vigilant about charging my battery every night.
I knew I had only a few exposures left before my time was up. I high tailed it over to The TTA and asked if I could set up the camera on a tripod and just keep riding. The cast members smiled knowingly and said Yes!
I set up in the car and I realized that I would have to go around a few times to figure out the good spots to try making exposures. I didn't have enough knowledge of the ride to know where these spots may be. I just started to take pictures as I went along, not really knowing what I was getting, but knowing that the end was near.
As it turned out the battery died, dead as a door nail, before I got all the way around once. I maybe got less that 12 exposures of God knows what because I couldn't even see that on my dead D60.
I sighed and went around again, packing up my equipment, and coming to terms with the fact that you can't have everything and sometimes WDW is about making choices and the knowledge that it will be there for another day. I was explaining this to my husband and I related that our son will never be 11 again so we have to go more often than my husband would like but if I don't get to complete my "Picture Plan" well, I'll try it again next time. Some things about Disney will still be there and other things, like the age of my son are gone forever so that is the more important thing.
I was dog tired, getting up Early and staying out Late so I trudged off for the hotel and the battery charger, a lot earlier than I had expected that night.
When I got home I downloaded my pics to the computer and lo and behold Tomorrowland had given me a gift!
I cleaned it up a bit in Photoshop but it was mostly for contrast issues. That blue color is for real and it shows up just as prominently in the original. It's one of my favorite pix from the trip! I love the way the color shows the motion and it gives you a sense of direction and speed.
Now I'm one that believes that if anything has been done, it's been done before. It's not important if you are the first to do something or even the best to do something. The most important thing is to have a creative vision, and even if that vision has a framework provided by others, if you are flexing and stretching your creative muscles, then you have achieved your goal.
I'd like to thank Tom for inspiring me. Simply by flexing and stretching and reaching I have achieved my goal, unexpectedly, with a mostly dead battery! GO FIGURE!!!
Smoochies,
Marlton Mom
But there is one picture/story that just couldn't wait.... you see that Tom Bricker fella MADE me spend $600 + bucks on a Tokina 11-16 super duper wide angle lens. How did he do that you ask?? Well just look at some of the pix he has taken with it! Twisted my arm I tell ya!
So any way, I realized that it was W I D E angle that I craved for my photography, sort of the missing link if you will, in my repertoire. It seems like initially we want Photography to take us deeper into a subject and then we get to the point where we realize that the bigger picture is, well, the BIGGER picture. At least that's what happened with me any way.
So this Tom Bricker fella goes and takes that Spectro Magic picture.... you know, the one where he is up on the train platform at the entrance to the Magic Kingdom and he sets the exposure to long and captures the streaks of color. I REALLY LOVE that picture!
It got me to thinking..... how could I accomplish capturing color like that..... but in a different way.
You know how before you go to the world you have all these ideas about what you're going to see/do/find/photograph ?? Well I had em! OF course I'm smart enough to realize that the best made plans go to pieces in the heat of the battle and it's the unforeseen that gets you in the butt or provides that magical moment that was totally unexpected.
The picture below is perhaps one of them.
I had thought about that Spectro Magic picture where Tom is still and the 'World' is moving and I immediately thought, "what would a picture look like if the photographer was moving and the 'World' was still..... like in Tomorrowland.... like on the Tomorrowland Transportation Authority ride!"
THAT was it!
I couldn't wait to get to TomorrowLand! I was sure that all those Night shots I wanted to get were there! (they weren't, they were elsewhere but more on that in the trip report!) As luck would have it I only had 1 night to shoot in the Magic Kingdom. One of my Top 5 things to see on this trip was SpectroMagic, which was right before Wishes fireworks spectacular........
Uh oh! The parks were CROWDED! I got to the center hub before 5:45 and it was packed with people already! I decided to go with plan B and set up in front of the Crystal Palace against the railing, where all the strollers were parked, to get a PEOPLE FREE spot for Wishes. I had to choose between Wishes and Spectro, and Spectro lost out yet again! Oh well......... Next trip!
So Wishes it was and I fired away! I got some good ones, which will be posted later, after the holiday madness and Mom duties diminish. A cup of tea and a couple of hours (at Least!) on photoshop are in my future.
After Wishes I was exhausted! I crawled over to Adventureland and got myself a Dole whip and conked out for a good half an hour. Then I started to work my way over to Tomorrowland. It was then, at some point that I realized that my freshly charged battery was almost DEAD!!!! Wishes had done me in! I had thought about getting a second battery but at $50 plus bucks a pop I just couldn't afford it and I was vigilant about charging my battery every night.
I knew I had only a few exposures left before my time was up. I high tailed it over to The TTA and asked if I could set up the camera on a tripod and just keep riding. The cast members smiled knowingly and said Yes!
I set up in the car and I realized that I would have to go around a few times to figure out the good spots to try making exposures. I didn't have enough knowledge of the ride to know where these spots may be. I just started to take pictures as I went along, not really knowing what I was getting, but knowing that the end was near.
As it turned out the battery died, dead as a door nail, before I got all the way around once. I maybe got less that 12 exposures of God knows what because I couldn't even see that on my dead D60.
I sighed and went around again, packing up my equipment, and coming to terms with the fact that you can't have everything and sometimes WDW is about making choices and the knowledge that it will be there for another day. I was explaining this to my husband and I related that our son will never be 11 again so we have to go more often than my husband would like but if I don't get to complete my "Picture Plan" well, I'll try it again next time. Some things about Disney will still be there and other things, like the age of my son are gone forever so that is the more important thing.
I was dog tired, getting up Early and staying out Late so I trudged off for the hotel and the battery charger, a lot earlier than I had expected that night.
When I got home I downloaded my pics to the computer and lo and behold Tomorrowland had given me a gift!
I cleaned it up a bit in Photoshop but it was mostly for contrast issues. That blue color is for real and it shows up just as prominently in the original. It's one of my favorite pix from the trip! I love the way the color shows the motion and it gives you a sense of direction and speed.
Now I'm one that believes that if anything has been done, it's been done before. It's not important if you are the first to do something or even the best to do something. The most important thing is to have a creative vision, and even if that vision has a framework provided by others, if you are flexing and stretching your creative muscles, then you have achieved your goal.
I'd like to thank Tom for inspiring me. Simply by flexing and stretching and reaching I have achieved my goal, unexpectedly, with a mostly dead battery! GO FIGURE!!!
Smoochies,
Marlton Mom