POTD Match Game- Thread 2

[ejud]

MMmmm... I like that!

 

[bellebookworm9]

On my bucket list is to learn how to get good Wishes pics like the "Great" photographers on the DIS....
...like Wendsel, Traylorc, PythonFan888, South Carolina etc. I'll keep tryin'..

Carol, that is a really great picture! I feel the same way though: thought this would be a good picture to match but knew my sad Nikon point & shoot photo would be put to shame.

 

[South Carolina]

On my bucket list is to learn how to get good Wishes pics like the "Great" photographers on the DIS....
...like Wendsel, Traylorc, PythonFan888, South Carolina etc. I'll keep tryin'..

Thanks Carol. Your Wishes picture just like your other pictures, is very good. I believe you can mark that one as done on your bucket list. You are braver than I am to fight that crowd on Main St for the straight on picture.



Disney Wishes by MikeR on Flickr

 

[cyndiella]

This one is so pretty!

 

[cyndiella]

On my bucket list is to learn how to get good Wishes pics like the "Great" photographers on the DIS....
...like Wendsel, Traylorc, PythonFan888, South Carolina etc. I'll keep tryin'..

Ah Carol.. your pictures are great! You just want another excuse to go to Disney again.. Am I right or what...

 

[senecabeach]

Thanks ALL for the compliments...I appreciate them. It would sure be nice not to need to take a gazillion shots for a fewe keepers though.

You just want another excuse to go to Disney again.. Am I right or what...

cyndiella... Yepper...Got me pegged !!

another decent one..

 

[STEAMBOAT209]

SHABBY, BUT I FOUND ONE

 

[senecabeach]

STEAMBOAT209....

If you will be there for the 8-9th, next weekend...Disney will be taping the X-mas parade on Sat and the flag pole will be down...so...
....there will be great shots to take from the train station !!!

Have a Wonderful Vacation !!!

 

[Brian_WDW74]

This one is so pretty!

Thank you! Fireworks are so hard to photograph, and I think everyone in this thread has done a great job.

Here's a picture that's not so pretty, but I'm posting it because of the unique angle. It's "the Fan" as seen from the Top of the World Lounge.

 

[cyndiella]

Thank you! Fireworks are so hard to photograph, and I think everyone in this thread has done a great job.

Yep, I agree! But basically I've pretty much given up trying and just enjoy the show now! (still feel awfully tempted to try tho!)

 

[klmall]

Yep, I agree! But basically I've pretty much given up trying and just enjoy the show now! (still feel awfully tempted to try tho!)

I so totally agree....I would love to meet up sometime with one of the pro photographers here on DIS who would help me improve my attempts to capture any fireworks.

 

[cyndiella]

I so totally agree....I would love to meet up sometime with one of the pro photographers here on DIS who would help me improve my attempts to capture any fireworks.

I suspect I would need something more than a $200.00 P&S digital camera

 

[klmall]

I suspect I would need something more than a $200.00 P&S digital camera

Maybe but does your camera have a fireworks setting or shoot in RAW?

 

[ejud]

I suspect I would need something more than a $200.00 P&S digital camera

I'm a P&S guy- cause it means I am always ready for the shot. In fact have just (finally) decided to pull the trigger on the Lumix FZ200 versus the Nikon 5100 with two lenses, both the same price for mainly that reason- and that the image quality is so close... and I'm not printing posters.

But have been shooting fireworks for years with P&S's of varying qualities, and though I usually forget in the excitement of the moment, two things I have learned is 1) drop down the exposure 1 or 2 points; and 2) go to manual focus, pre-set it and leave it.

I have not gotten into setting ISO and aperture and time, but I will be able to and working on that with the FZ200...

But meanwhile, that's something to start with and to at least some degree, it is the shooter more than the camera.



Jud

 

[cyndiella]

I'm a P&S guy- cause it means I am always ready for the shot. In fact have just (finally) decided to pull the trigger on the Lumix FZ200 versus the Nikon 5100 with two lenses, both the same price for mainly that reason- and that the image quality is so close... and I'm not printing posters.

But have been shooting fireworks for years with P&S's of varying qualities, and though I usually forget in the excitement of the moment, two things I have learned is 1) drop down the exposure 1 or 2 points; and 2) go to manual focus, pre-set it and leave it.

I have not gotten into setting ISO and aperture and time, but I will be able to and working on that with the FZ200...

But meanwhile, that's something to start with and to at least some degree, it is the shooter more than the camera.



Jud

Thanks, good to know!!

 

[PythonFan888]

Yep, I agree! But basically I've pretty much given up trying and just enjoy the show now! (still feel awfully tempted to try tho!)

The Best Settings for Fireworks:

 

[cyndiella]

The Best Settings for Fireworks:

 

[ejud]

Hehehehehee...

 

[Brian_WDW74]

Just a reminder that we have a Photography Board where you can discuss the best ways to photograph fireworks and all kinds of other subject matter.

 

[ejud]

Getting back to the subject, as seen from the far side of World Showcase Lagoon one night in Epcot!





Jud