Old Disney Park photos

[raterfly]

wow - love this thread. I had first trip to WDW in 1992 - I was 17. Going for 2nd time in Aug this year so really looking forward to it - will be DS8's first trip. Here are some pics from 1992.
port orleans resort

Epcot

MGM - i think

outside mupet 3D

the only one of the castle I have

My mum and Sandy showing the magic of Disney for adults - look at the smiles

Mickey

POTC

Universal

Universal again

 

[STEAMBOAT209]

Interesting shot of SSE. What is the origin of the "mist" on either side of the globe...is it from the fountain, or a weather phenomenon, or something else?

~YEKCIM

was a combination of both, and the down pour that was preparing.

 

[STEAMBOAT209]

Ahh, so relaxing and nicely captured background!

I really like the picture of Spaceship Earth in the background with the mist near it and was also wondering how you got that effect.

no special effects on my part, just a true storm in the works, with the help of the fountain mist.

 

[blujaymama]

This is such a fantastic thread! I am getting so psyched for my trip!

 

[Camicar]

When I get enough posts, I'll have to scan my pics from 1972.

I inherited my parents' photo albums upon their deaths and the thing that surprises me is how many more photos we take these days (esp with digital cameras) than we took then. I can remember my father being especially parsimonious about taking pics because they cost so much to develop, in his opinion. But I think that they are really priceless and that more is better!

 

[YEKCIM]

When I get enough posts, I'll have to scan my pics from 1972.

I inherited my parents' photo albums upon their deaths and the thing that surprises me is how many more photos we take these days (esp with digital cameras) than we took then. I can remember my father being especially parsimonious about taking pics because they cost so much to develop, in his opinion. But I think that they are really priceless and that more is better!

Can't wait to see your '72 pix. And, you are indeed correct about how digital has affected how and what we photograph. If I took two 36 exposure rolls to WDW back in "the day", that was a lot of film. Last July, I shot 2K+ in six days in the parks, and took pix of lots of subjects that I would *never* have even considered photographing in film days (like a pic of a paper cup with Mickey's image on it, for example).

Get that post count up there so you can add your archival stuff to this thread!

~YEKCIM

 

[YEKCIM]

~YEKCIM

 

[fitzperry]

Can't wait to see your '72 pix. And, you are indeed correct about how digital has affected how and what we photograph. If I took two 36 exposure rolls to WDW back in "the day", that was a lot of film. Last July, I shot 2K+ in six days in the parks, and took pix of lots of subjects that I would *never* have even considered photographing in film days (like a pic of a paper cup with Mickey's image on it, for example).

Get that post count up there so you can add your archival stuff to this thread!

~YEKCIM

My dad tells me that he took at least 40 rolls of slide film on two trips we took in the 70's. I was surprised to hear that, but he loves Disney, and those trips were big splurges for us. I haven't found the time to go through all those slides, but I hope to get to them someday soon.

 

[YEKCIM]

My dad tells me that he took at least 40 rolls of slide film on two trips we took in the 70's. I was surprised to hear that, but he loves Disney, and those trips were big splurges for us. I haven't found the time to go through all those slides, but I hope to get to them someday soon.

FWIW, and I have mentioned this before, so forgive me for repeating myself, but I have found that a quick, down and dirty method of "converting" slides to digital, is to simply project them onto a flat white surface and photograph the projected image with a tripod mounted digital camera. All the old '70's images I have posted on this thread were done using that high-tech method!

~YEKCIM

 

[GaMsStella2]

Thanks for all the pics and all the magic they bring back

 

[UnknownMouseketeer]

ditto

 

[fitzperry]

FWIW, and I have mentioned this before, so forgive me for repeating myself, but I have found that a quick, down and dirty method of "converting" slides to digital, is to simply project them onto a flat white surface and photograph the projected image with a tripod mounted digital camera. All the old '70's images I have posted on this thread were done using that high-tech method!

~YEKCIM

You're forgiven. I recall you mentioning that on the photo board, but it didn't really sink in at the time. I will probably give that a shot. Thanks for the tip! Sounds like it will be much less time consuming than scanning them, and from the scans I've seen, unless you have a pretty high end scanner (we don't!) you won't get much better results with that method.

 

[YEKCIM]

You're forgiven. I recall you mentioning that on the photo board, but it didn't really sink in at the time. I will probably give that a shot. Thanks for the tip! Sounds like it will be much less time consuming than scanning them, and from the scans I've seen, unless you have a pretty high end scanner (we don't!) you won't get much better results with that method.

I have an old-ish Acer scanner w/transparency capability that will run only under my old Win98 Dell. It's very slow and the scans are decidedly of less quality than my project-and-capture method. I don't know if this is accurate or not, but it makes sense to me that a camera capturing a large projected image will record more detail than a scanner scanning a tiny piece of film. Anyway, that has been my experience, and the ability to PP the image has, in most cases, resulted in a better quality end product than the original, due to color correction, etc.

If you have or have access to a slide projector, give it a shot. It costs nearly nothing (5 bucks for the foam core) and within ten minutes you can determine if the results are acceptable for your purposes. I was truly shocked as to how good the captures were, and any desire I had for a film scanner was immediately quenched.

~YEKCIM

 

[YEKCIM]

POC:

~YEKCIM

 

[njbeachbum]

YaKnow, if you were the Flashin' kind, this would be a great balcony to do it on
No, I'm not the flashing kind, but maybe with a bottle of wine and a dare.....

Having never met you, but reading this one and only post of yours, I'll bet you that if I asked 10 of your friends they would say you ARE the flashing type!

 

[RmrJmrGrl]

love these old pics!!!

BA9

 

[SteamBoatWillysKin]

Thanks!

 

[handicap18]

Here are a few of my In-Law's slides from 2 of their trip's back in '85 & '87. Converted to digital via YEKCIM's method using a digital camera.

 

[taylorsmommy05]

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