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The morning after DAP on 12/11/11, I decided to go to EPCOT despite feeling really tired after lugging around my tripod and 60 lbs of gear at the WWOHP (see my prior post DAP Through my Lens).
I didnt sleep that night from not getting back to POR-Riverside until early the next morning and so I guess I was over tired and I was up most of the night. This no sleeping situation had me up with the birds on early Sunday morning and my arrival at EPCOT was very early.
While I have been to EPCOT more times than I can count over 30 years since its opening in the early 80s, I have never been to the World Showcase at rope drop at 11 am. I arrived early at the World Showcase at around 10 am not knowing the 11 am opening, so I made the executive decision to try and wake up and find a decent cup of coffee . . . which I really needed.
I travelled light at EPCOT with only a small National Geographic camera gadget bag and only the bare essential of a few lenses . No flash and certainly no tripod. So after my coffee I started to wake up and then made my way back to the World Showcase for the 11 am rope drop.
For all of the DISers who attended the WWOHP and the Podcast taping you will recall the weather being beautiful the first half of the day and then horrible weather arrived at around 4 pm and lasted for the rest of the day.
As you will see from the photos, the weather was absolutely beautiful for the first half of the day on Sunday and I felt very fortunate to be able to take advantage of this wonderful weather. I focused my attention on composition and capturing images from different angles and tried to incorporate shadows as much as you can during the early part of the day with full bright sun.
I shot film for 20 years and for this shoot I was as close as I have gotten to date for robust color saturation, similar to when I used a 35MM Kodachrome ASA 25 or 64 film, which is a very slow speed film, but on a sunny day, the colors with that film were at their richest and just popped. With digital photography, I try to keep my ISO setting around 100 and err on the side of under-exposing the image to accentuate the contrast and colors. I am a photo purist when it comes to keeping the integrity of my images and as such, my post-prod work on any of my images are very minimal in Lightroom for adjustments basically for brightness, clarity and vibrance . . . thats it.
The best thing about arriving at The World Showcase early is the lack of people. This is a photographers dream and paradise, because if your subject is the architecture and capturing a spirit and mood of peacefulness in your composition, massive crowds in my opinion takes away from that calming vibe and feeling in your captured image.
I hope the architectural photos makes you feel relaxed and calm and provides the nice feeling that EPCOT generates.
DR NYKCB (Ken)
I didnt sleep that night from not getting back to POR-Riverside until early the next morning and so I guess I was over tired and I was up most of the night. This no sleeping situation had me up with the birds on early Sunday morning and my arrival at EPCOT was very early.
While I have been to EPCOT more times than I can count over 30 years since its opening in the early 80s, I have never been to the World Showcase at rope drop at 11 am. I arrived early at the World Showcase at around 10 am not knowing the 11 am opening, so I made the executive decision to try and wake up and find a decent cup of coffee . . . which I really needed.
I travelled light at EPCOT with only a small National Geographic camera gadget bag and only the bare essential of a few lenses . No flash and certainly no tripod. So after my coffee I started to wake up and then made my way back to the World Showcase for the 11 am rope drop.
For all of the DISers who attended the WWOHP and the Podcast taping you will recall the weather being beautiful the first half of the day and then horrible weather arrived at around 4 pm and lasted for the rest of the day.
As you will see from the photos, the weather was absolutely beautiful for the first half of the day on Sunday and I felt very fortunate to be able to take advantage of this wonderful weather. I focused my attention on composition and capturing images from different angles and tried to incorporate shadows as much as you can during the early part of the day with full bright sun.
I shot film for 20 years and for this shoot I was as close as I have gotten to date for robust color saturation, similar to when I used a 35MM Kodachrome ASA 25 or 64 film, which is a very slow speed film, but on a sunny day, the colors with that film were at their richest and just popped. With digital photography, I try to keep my ISO setting around 100 and err on the side of under-exposing the image to accentuate the contrast and colors. I am a photo purist when it comes to keeping the integrity of my images and as such, my post-prod work on any of my images are very minimal in Lightroom for adjustments basically for brightness, clarity and vibrance . . . thats it.
The best thing about arriving at The World Showcase early is the lack of people. This is a photographers dream and paradise, because if your subject is the architecture and capturing a spirit and mood of peacefulness in your composition, massive crowds in my opinion takes away from that calming vibe and feeling in your captured image.
I hope the architectural photos makes you feel relaxed and calm and provides the nice feeling that EPCOT generates.
DR NYKCB (Ken)
Joan
