Sharing our vacation photos!

[SaskDisNut]

I use a Canon 30D as my primary camera.

I've got camera envy!!!

You've done a great job with your website and your photos are excellent.

 

[tnmomof4]

I love your pictures and your web site. Did you make that web site? If you did, what is the first piece of advice you can give me if I want to make one?

 

[rotlex]

How many pics did you take total? I was around 1200 I think. I can't really remember! I'm so excited to look at the amazing amount of pics that someone else took!

Total, actually just looked, LOL, was 852 pics! God I love digital! I thin what's really neat with that many is being able to select different pics for say your web site, albums scrap book etc. and have them all be kind of different.

 

[SLDL]

Great photos!! I am wondering how many memory cards you used for 800 pics. I would have a hard time narrowing it down too!!

How was the 1900 Park Fare w/ Cinderella? We are going in Dec.

Thanks for sharing your photos!!!

 

[rotlex]

I love your pictures and your web site. Did you make that web site? If you did, what is the first piece of advice you can give me if I want to make one?

Thanks very much, and yes, I made and maintain the site. Advice wise? Mmm, find a decent web\site creation program and practice with it. Seriously though, although I have worked in IT for a decade, I have NO html skills whatsoever when it comes to stuff like that. While I'm a Windows admin, I use a Mac at home, and created the site using iWeb.

Thanks again!

 

[rotlex]

Great photos!! I am wondering how many memory cards you used for 800 pics. I would have a hard time narrowing it down too!!

How was the 1900 Park Fare w/ Cinderella? We are going in Dec.

Thanks for sharing your photos!!!

Thanks for the compliments! I used 2 4GB cards on the trip, shooting in RAW. I had a few spare 1GB cards just in case though.

As far as Park Fare....it was AWESOME!!!! We did quite a few character dinners, and that one was my daughters absolute favorite. The food was GREAT and the character interaction was really, really good! Our daughter was visited by the prince, Cindy and the mice at least 3 times during the evening, and it made her feel really special. A great time was had by all, and we plan on doing that one again in August for our next trip!

 

[SLDL]

I'm so glad you enjoyed 1900 Park Fare--we are looking forward to that!

I have never even heard of 4GB cards, I thought that 2 was the most you could get. I have just gotten a digital SLR (Nikon D40) but I am used to using a Nikon Coolpix digital. What is the difference in taking RAW photos versus the 'large' setting (which is what I am using). Are the pictures better in RAW? I'm still learning!

 

[rotlex]

I'm so glad you enjoyed 1900 Park Fare--we are looking forward to that!

I have never even heard of 4GB cards, I thought that 2 was the most you could get. I have just gotten a digital SLR (Nikon D40) but I am used to using a Nikon Coolpix digital. What is the difference in taking RAW photos versus the 'large' setting (which is what I am using). Are the pictures better in RAW? I'm still learning!

I have been using RAW format since I purchased my first DSLR maybe 5 years ago. In a nutshell, RAW is the image as the camera's sensor captures it. It is uncompressed and unprocessed. I prefer it as to me it gives me the best picture, in the end, that my camera is capable of taking. The one drawback, if you consider it that, is that each photo must be processed, or at least run through a RAW converter of some sort. This is not really as big a deal as it sounds, as most new OS's can at least view the files, and most popular photo programs can view and manipulate them.

Lastly, they allow for a much better chance of fixing an "oops" as far as over or under exposure is concerned. I have been able to correct blown highlights, and severly underexposed pics by shooting in RAW that I could have never saved using JPG. If you want to do a bit more reading to learn about it, there are a ton of resources on the web. Here's a short, but informative link, from Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAW_image_format

In the end, I guess it's personal preferences, or obessesion with at least trying to get the most out of your photo's, LOL. For me, I'm just a lot happier with the end result. The only drawback, and it's not a biggie for me, is file size. My 30D RAW file size is roughly 8-9MB vs say 4-5 for JGP. That's nearly twice the drive space, but heck, storage is cheap today!

 

[KingdomHearts]

Thanks for sharing! That was really awesome! The picture when it was your DD, DW and Nana, all sitting in the air port, and your DD was pouting... I get the same way every time we have to leave. My DM always has to get a picture of it too! HAha. Have an awesome trip in August!

 

[TreslovesWDW]

Great pictures.

 

[BeckWhy]

Total, actually just looked, LOL, was 852 pics! God I love digital! I thin what's really neat with that many is being able to select different pics for say your web site, albums scrap book etc. and have them all be kind of different.

HAHA! Yeah I realized afterwards. Stupid reading! I've never been good at it!

Years ago I said I would never buy a digital. Then my boyfriend got one for me one year, and I realized the versitility (sp?) of it. I really don't know if its cheaper to have the pics printed out at a store or what not, but I love that you can put them on the internet and all that, put them in the DVD player, and the computer is generally always on so I can look at them all the time! I also like how you don't waste film on bad pics either.