list attractions that do not permit flash photography

[iNTeNSeBLue98]

I was guilty of using a flash on one or two attractions that I should not have. In preparation for our next trip, I don't want to make that mistake again.

Can we compile a list of attraction that do not permit flash photography?

 

[Gdad]

I know the Finding Nemo show in AK allows NO photograpghy- flash or otherwise. Kind of irritated me actually.

 

[Master Mason]

I don't think that any of the rides allow flash photography. They spent a bunch of money and time making the lighting right so that the people would enjoy the ride and get the experience, I flash will show things that aren't supposed to be seen to people that don't want to see those things that will be iluminated.

Think the Hunted House, the darkeness is there for a purpose. And your flash will effect the riders on either side of you for many cars.

Also, almost no live performace allows flash, most of the people using them it doesn't do any good as they are too far away for it to help anyway. Think of a football game, thousands of flashes going off, but no flash is going to help a couple of hundred feet from the action. And if you are close enough for it to help the picture, you take a chance of temporarly blinding the performer, and that can be very dangerous, what if they fell off the stage because the counldn't see where they were going.

Then there are things like specto where the flash iluminates the background, which wasn't meant to be seen because it is designed to be viewed in the dark with the lights of the floats being an integrel part of the show. Or illuminations, where the flash will do you no good, but will distract the others around you.

 

[mabas9395]

Last year the people in the "car" behind us kept taking flash pictures on the Peter Pan ride and the flash showed all of the "behind the scenes" stuff that we aren't supposed to see. It really ruined it for my kids, and me too.

So I agree, no flash photography on ANY ride or attraction.

 

[handicap18]

Best practice is to assume no flash photography on the rides and then double check with the CM. They usually say please no flash photography before the rides start. There are a few that don't allow photography at all.

As a general rule, use your flash only outside at night while taking pics of friends and/or family and indoors at a resturaunt, again to take pics of friends and/or family.

Funny that Master Mason mentioned the sporting event. All those flashes going off are only waisting the battery. They do no good what so ever. I went to a Red Sox game the other day and during the pre-game warmups there were a few people sitting behind the dugout in the stands taking pics of the players and they were using their flash and wondering why the pics were coming out so dark. One guy was using a speedlight flash (the Nikon SB-800 is what it looked like) and after every shot he kept increasing the power because the pics he was getting were to dark. I almost said something to him, but instead just laughed to myself. He was taking a pic of someone just beyond 2nd base and he was behind the dugout. Thats probably a distance of 150+ feet. Oh well.

 

[Master Mason]

I went to a Red Sox game the other day and during the pre-game warmups there were a few people sitting behind the dugout in the stands taking pics of the players and they were using their flash and wondering why the pics were coming out so dark. One guy was using a speedlight flash (the Nikon SB-800 is what it looked like) and after every shot he kept increasing the power because the pics he was getting were to dark. I almost said something to him, but instead just laughed to myself. He was taking a pic of someone just beyond 2nd base and he was behind the dugout. Thats probably a distance of 150+ feet. Oh well.

And with the new flashes the stronger you make the flash the worse it is going to be because the camara is adjusting to the extra light...