Photopass questions

[cynderella]

cause a bit of a fight...I'm gonna want the CD...BF not so much...
*LOL*

When I told my DH I wanted to look into buying the Photopass CD, he said "$99??!! I don't think so!" I was prepared to fight, but laid low awhile. Then last week he went out and paid more for my son's dirt bike than I approved of, so I said, "Guess what I am getting at WDW? A Photopass CD...and anything else I want!" It was agreed all around that there will be no more arguments.

 

[AdventureGuru]

oh I will get my way!!! Its one of those things that if I want it and since I am pretty much paying for the trip...I get what I want...he knows better

I know this sounds kind of snotty...but if he really wants to tell me I cant have it-he should have paid for the trip...LOL

 

[kimbac3]

Another tip....hand your personal camera to the photopass photographer and ask very nicely if they can take a picture with yours too. They will do it. We ended up buying a couple of photopass pictures though anyway. We have one of stitch coming out of a hat that DD is holding. It's very cute!
Kimba

 

[mom2bellaandlivi]

I would seriously be lost and confused without all of you!!! This is new since I was at WDW last. I am so excited!!!

 

[disneydreamer98]

If you are a person like me who normally purchases the park pictures...the CD is well worth the money. Our trips are usually about 10 days long and I always buy the bare minimum of 4 pictures.....one each of my family in front of each park icon. So the little extra that I have to shell out of my pocket to receive ALL of the photos taken during our trip really isn't much more. The other great thing about his CD is that I am normally the one taking our photos, therefore really the only pictures I'm in are the ones that the PhotoPass photographers take!!!! It's kind of nice being able to have some memories captured with myself in them!

 

[Sleeping Jedi Beauty]

I also love how PhotoPass will take a picture with your camera. Now we have pictures of everyone and they were taken by a professional photographer. Sometimes an unsteady hand causes what would have been a great picture to be fuzzy. I had enough of those from my own hand on the trip. Because of PhotoPass, those shots were not lost, so to speak, plus they often turned out better than my own. My brother spent the whole week complaining about how stupid it was and how much better his camera was. Well, after he saw the pictures, he started complaining about how they didn't make them large enough to print a poster of the pictures.(You win arguments with him when he has to change what he's arguing about).

I also found a photographer near the statue of Roy and Minnie, and she was kind enough to take our picture there while she waited for the character she was assigned to to return. She even did a great pic that looks like Roy is talking to me while Minnie looks up at Roy.

My memory card also started to run low. Because of PhotoPass, I didn't have to panic. I saved my camera for those impromptu moments at meals and such and used the PhotoPass to capture those family shots in front of park icons and such.

One more tip for those who buy the cd. I uploaded and cropped, but the crop didn't work right and the printed version was incorrectly cropped. I went back to Costco, explained what happened and they helped me fix it without a problem. You're better off uploading the pic in the store and cropping it there. Ask an employee for help too as they'll show you what to do in order to get everything in the picture right. One of the employees is going to WDW soon, so I explained how the PhotoPass works and what you have to do to get those special borders.

 

[AdventureGuru]

I love the thought that you can use your camera for impromtu photos...I am pretty new to the digital scene-I still love film best but BF doesnt want to take the film camera with us (which sucks b/c I now have a 70-300 zoom that I want to use and he just wants to take the little camera)
BUT I am having a huge issue with storage space...I told him I wanted a 2gig card and he looked at me like I had 2 heads!
If I increase the resolution on my 256mb card I only get 24 shots!
and just to give you a hint of how many photos we take...we took 25 rolls of film with us to disney last time and came home with 23 used!
Photopass sounds like a good way to go...

 

[Showpony]

I just want to thank everyone for the tips regarding Photopass. I've copied them and will print them out to take with me to the World this October.

My question~besides the front of the parks, is there some sort of list of where the photopass photogs are?? This will be my 2nd trip to the "world" and I'd kinda like to have an idea of where to look for the photographers. I plan on filling that CD up!

Thanks!

 

[teacherkaren]

I made a movie/slide show that was offered on the photo pass page and loved it! You can use any of your photo pass pics as well as downloading your own pics to add to it. I love showing it to my friends and class. Everyone thinks it's very cool. Definitely worth the $50. I will definitely have more photo pass pics taken next time.

 

[disneydreamer98]

I just want to thank everyone for the tips regarding Photopass. I've copied them and will print them out to take with me to the World this October.

My question~besides the front of the parks, is there some sort of list of where the photopass photogs are?? This will be my 2nd trip to the "world" and I'd kinda like to have an idea of where to look for the photographers. I plan on filling that CD up!

Thanks!

Not sure if there is a list of locations, but I will tell you that the Photopass photographer's are all over the place now! They are hard to miss!

 

[BethanyF]

My question~besides the front of the parks, is there some sort of list of where the photopass photogs are?? This will be my 2nd trip to the "world" and I'd kinda like to have an idea of where to look for the photographers. I plan on filling that CD up!

Thanks!

Some that I remember
MK:
walking all over Main Street....have them snap one of you waiting on the curb for the parade
near the rose garden between the hub and Tomorrowland....hreat shots of you with the castle and very few people behind you
with most characters that are signing autographs....Mickey in the Judge's Tent, near the Dole Whip stand, outside the entrance to the park, just inside the entrance, in Tomorrowland near the Buzz ride
Epcot:
front entrance
behind Spaceship Earth, almost near the lagoon (great pic, less crowd)
with the chatacters....in England with Pooh & friends, in Character Connection (or wahtever it's called), with Belle in France, with Aladdin & friends in Morocco
MGM
entrance
walking toward ToT
character areas....in the courtyard around the hat, with Chicken Little after the animation tour, Mickey theater, with Mike & Sully, with whatever characters are in the trailers near the Mickey theater,
AK
entrance
on the bridge heading toward Africa
character areas....Pooh & friends greeting area, outside the entrance, Camp Minnie Mickey

it's hard to miss them, they usually wear tan vests that say photopass on the back

 

[KCMiller]

A lot of my photopass pics are here
We had 2 different Stitch pics (ground & hat), Simba, a couple of Tinks and a whole lot of other pics taken during the week. The photopass photographer also took several pics of my nephew's band in the parade and put them on my card. .

Did you have to arrange for this? My children will be marching, and I would love if the Photopass Photographer took lots of pictures of them - but would I have to arrange this in advance? CAN I arrange this in advance?

KC

 

[BethanyF]

Did you have to arrange for this? My children will be marching, and I would love if the Photopass Photographer took lots of pictures of them - but would I have to arrange this in advance? CAN I arrange this in advance?

KC

nope, I dont think you can arrange anything like this. We were sitting on the curb watching the other bands and I noticed the photogs getting in there and taking pics. I stopped one of them and asked her if I pointed out my nephew would she put a few pics of him marching on my card. I gave her my card just as we saw his band coming around the corner and all the pics she snapped of his band were on my card.

I do know that several photogs take lots of band pics and they have them all available to look at like you would any other picture. I dont know if you can have those pics added to your card if they werent coded to your card in the first place.

In a nutshell, your best bet is to befreind a photog just before the parade and ask them to get a few pics for you.

 

[Sleeping Jedi Beauty]

Befriending a PhotoPass photographer is a great thing to do. I did it one night as people were lining up for Wishes, and when my some of my family came to join me, Frank kindly agreed to wait a couple more minutes even though they called him in and took a beautiful picture of us in front of the castle at night. You can clearly see the colors on the castle.

I also wanted to add that we never saw any PhotoPass photographers in World Showcase. I looked for them in France when we saw Aurora and Belle, but they weren't there. I think in some of those places, they're not necessarily there all the time. I think the Tink pics must be taken on Main Street. It has something to do with the fact that Kodak photographers are the ones who do the Tink pics and they're on Main Street.

Also remember that MGM and AK pics take longer to get into the system. For MK and EPCOT, it's usually minutes. For MGM & AK, it can be hours. Keep this in mind and try to do those pics before the last day of your trip.