Finding Nemo Musical Photos??

[Diz-Mommy]

OKay, so I know we wern't suppose to take pictures during the show, and I didn't.

But now I'm trying to put together a slide show to share with friends and family and I bought the Finding Nemo "The musical" soundtrack to go with my slide show and I'd really like to have a few pictures of the actual show...

Does anyone have a few pics to share??

Purty Please with a blinking TinkerBell clipie on top??

 

[Groucho]

Try checking the official Disney sites. I doubt you'll find much in the way of amateur photos, and those that you did find would probably be pretty poor quality. It's almost too bad, we had seats about three rows back from the stage, right next to the runway in the middle, it would have been a terrific place to take some photos from. It was a great show!

They had some video of it in the updated Animal Kingdom one-hour show on the Travel Channel. I can make a screencap of it (I recorded the actual digital stream off the show coming off the satellite) but the resolution is all of 480x480, which is stretched to 640x480 to get the proper aspect ratio, so they'd look pretty awful.

 

[jcriket]

My dd boyfriend got a bit of video, before they caught him, and made him put it away. I'll see if he has anything good.

 

[MarkBarbieri]

It would be possible for someone sitting fairly close using a DSLR to turn off their LCD, discretely hold their camera in their lap, and take shots without aiming. Not that anyone would do that. I'm just saying that it would be possible.

 

[Gdad]

I was promptly scolded for taking a picture before the curtain even opened.

 

[MarkBarbieri]

I was promptly scolded for taking a picture before the curtain even opened.

You've got to be more discrete. No one ever scolded me for taking any pictures there. Not that I did, of course. I'd never do that.

Sadly, if I had, which of course I would never have done, they probably wouldn't have come out very well. Aiming and shooting wouldn't be all that hard, but metering could be tough, especially for such a low light show.

If I had to not do it again, I'd go for high ISO, evaluative metering (after all, you can't choose what your are metering off of), and I'd tell it to underexpose by 2/3 stops. I'd also use a relatively narrow aperture to help compensate for focus differences. Something like ISO 1000, AV at f/5.6, AF, and -2/3 exposure compensation. But, of course, I'd never do that.

 

[Gdad]

I really was not even aware of the photo restriction at the time. They made the announcement a few minutes later. I was thinking it was the typical no FLASH photography rule.

What are they worried about with that rule anyway? Plenty of other shows are fine with it- FOTLK even allows flashes if one wanted to try using one.

 

[Groucho]

Finding Nemo is more like a true "Broadway show" than any other show I've seen at Disney (not that I've seen them all, but I've seen a fair number of them), I wonder if it's a combination of that (no photography at a Broadway show!) and that the show is so new... I'm sure that they're aware that all their rides and shows before then can easily be found on the internet, they'd much prefer people to come see it in person rather than see it in a crummy-quality video on the internet, especially if that makes them think that the show looks lousy.

I still can't figure out why they said no photography at all on Carousel of Progress, though!

 

[Gdad]

I still can't figure out why they said no photography at all on Carousel of Progress, though!

I didn't know that either- now that's funny. I can't even remember the last time i was on that thing.

 

[MarkBarbieri]

A really cynical person, like myself, might say that it's because the show isn't very good (by Disney standards) and they don't want people to see that before they've paid their money.

My real guess is that the theater conditions make it very important that the actors not be distracted by bright lights. Even if you ban flash photographry, many yahoos can't figure out how to turn off their flash and/or autofocus assist lights.

Another guess might be that they are using some form of light or infrared sensitive gear in the show somehow and cameras interfere with that.

The CoP thing (which annoyed my last time I was there) was truly pointless. I suspect that was just some idiot changing rules around because he/she couldn't think of something useful to do.

 

[Jeanne B]

I only got 2 pics before they stopped me but they didn't come out that great IMO (and I didn't hear the announcement BTW, I just assumed no flash). What irritated me is that throughout the rest of show after I was told I couldn't use my camera there were flashes going off left and right (and I wasn't using flash, very pointless as we all know).

 

[boBQuincy]

An also cynical person like myself might think that this is Disney's way of testing the waters to see if a ban on some photography will fly, or if it will result in numerous complaints.

I don't buy the idea where since they can't stop people from using flash, that it's easier to stop all photography. This is Disney, come up with an innovative solution!

As for "Carousel", the rules seem to change with the CM in charge at the time.
I wonder what they would do if everyone started takng photos at the same time? "Yes folks, it's a movement..."

 

[Groucho]

The Carousel of Progress Massacree? In three-shutter harmony?

I seem to recall reading somewhere that CoP was the one ride that Walt wanted to stay open forever. I'm not sure if it's true or not, but who knows. Of course, Disneyland got rid of theirs to put in a mostly dull (IMHO) bunch of stuff. (Excluding Asimo, which is cool though I didn't see it live.)

No photography is probably somewhat a CM thing. I think I've mentioned before that I heard to "no photography" rule on Tower of Terror in California, but never in Florida, and we've all seen times where one CM says one thing one time and another says something else at another time.

Either way, I'm in the "keep CoP" camp. Without CoP, would there still be a great, big, beautiful tomorrow???

 

[Master Mason]

Of course, Disneyland got rid of theirs to put in a mostly dull (IMHO) bunch of stuff. (Excluding Asimo, which is cool though I didn't see it live.)

yea but our submarine ride opens back up this weekend...

I went in the inoventions which is what they call it last time I was there. It had some neet stuff, but I liked the CoP better from when I was a kid....

 

[MarkBarbieri]

Of course, Disneyland got rid of theirs

I'm pretty sure that they just shipped theirs to the MK, which is where the one there came from. It was originally part of the 1964 World's Fair.

 

[Groucho]

Looks like you're right, I had assumed that it was a more recent shutdown based on the building being still so obviously the former CoP one, when I was there in 2005. My last DL trip was probably 1982 or so so I didn't remember much about from back then. I hoped to get back there later this year but I don't think it's going to happen at this point. But I might be squeezing in a multiday solo WDW trip early next year, so that might help tide me over. We will be heading back to DL before too long, though.

 

[GrowingUpDisney]

I got three shots in before they told me no photography. I thought they said "flash" photography during the spill in the beginning. Oh well, here they are for what they are worth....

 

[Diz-Mommy]

Thank you "GrowingupDisney". I will ad these to my slide along with the picture Mark didn't take

 

[Jeanne B]

Here's the two that I mentioned earlier that I took, just got them downloaded to photobucket. I'm sure the picture that Mark didn't take came out a lot better.

 

[MarkBarbieri]

m sure the picture that Mark didn't take came out a lot better.

Nah, if I'd taken any, they would have come out hopelessly bad. I wanted to apply the lessons that I learned from my first visit, but no one in my group had any interest in seeing the show again.