Thanks for all the help!!! Pics from my quick trip.

[tlcmommyx4]

I just wanted to thank everyone from this forum for all your help and advise to help me take some of my best shots from Disney. I still need much more practice, but I can see a difference!

I will post some more later

 

[Wadecool]

I just wanted to thank everyone from this forum for all your help and advise to help me take some of my best shots from Disney. I still need much more practice, but I can see a difference!

I will post some more later

Great photos! What settings were you using?

 

[tlcmommyx4]

Thanks the first shot of the castle was
Iso400 30mm f4.0 shot in TV mode at 1sec

The fountain was AV mode Iso 100 135mm F10 1/80

The rose was also AV mode Iso 100 28mm F22 1/25

I tend to shot more in AV than anything.

 

[tlcmommyx4]

I am going to show you my bird shots today.

This guy was just hanging out of the Splash Mountain. I have never seen so many birds at Disney before.

We found this little one waiting for the parade

He was just waiting for a boat to Epcot

Tell me what you think

 

[Snappy in OK]

Nice shots! I have been lurking (mostly) on the photography board for a while. I am hoping to get some better pics on our next trip this fall! I am looking forward to seeing more.

 

[singjenn]

Yay!!! I love the rainbow in the shot!! That's great! Way to go (sorry we didn't get to meet )

I just wanted to thank everyone from this forum for all your help and advise to help me take some of my best shots from Disney. I still need much more practice, but I can see a difference!

I will post some more later

 

[Marlton Mom]

I am going to show you my bird shots today.

This guy was just hanging out of the Splash Mountain.

Was he saying "Mine, mine, Mine?" repeatedly? If so then he must have come from Epcot!

~ Marlton Mom
PS. Can't wait to see more of your lovely pictures

 

[tlcmommyx4]

Here is some from Pop, I wish that I could have spent more time shooting there.

We were in the 50's building!

Here is one of my favorite couples

This one is from Epcot

 

[ThurlFan]

You got some great pictures, thanks for sharing!

 

[tlcmommyx4]

You got some great pictures, thanks for sharing!

Thanks I feel so thankful for all the wonderful advise of all of the people on these boards!

 

[VVFF]

First of all, let me congratulate you on your effort to learn a new DSLR and learn from mistakes(I tried to help with your long exposure castle shots). You obviously have made progress.

As for some hopefully constructive criticism...some of your images look underexposed. First of all, you were using spot metering for most of these shots(did you intend to?). That is generally not advisable in all but the hardest lighting conditions(think spot lighting on a performer on stage). This could be the reason for some of the underexposure. IF you place the spot metering circle over a white area of the image, you will underexpose the entire image.

Some of these images though don't look like spot metering was necessarily the reason for the underexposure(depending on focus/recompose technique). Make sure your camera's exposure compensation value is set to 0 for typical shots.

Do not by any means let my comments discourage you. I merely want to help you use your camera to the best of its ability and we all know that a setting or two can get messed up on a camera without us noticing right away.

If on your trip you ever felt that your camera was giving you wildly varying exposures...this would be why.

Hope this helps and I look forward to seeing more of your images. You'd be surprised how fast you can grow if you continue to learn and read up.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Enjoying your pics, keep em coming!

 

[tlcmommyx4]

As for some hopefully constructive criticism...some of your images look underexposed. First of all, you were using spot metering for most of these shots(did you intend to?). That is generally not advisable in all but the hardest lighting conditions(think spot lighting on a performer on stage). This could be the reason for some of the underexposure. IF you place the spot metering circle over a white area of the image, you will underexpose the entire image.

Thanks, my camera is normally on spot metering, because most of my shots are of little children and I want the focus to be on them and I didn't even think about moving it. What should it have been on???? That does make sense why some of my sky is blown out. Thanks for the advise.

 

[mom2rtk]

Great shots Michelle! I'm looking forward to seeing more!

 

[tlcmommyx4]

Here are a couple more

I'm not sure why I was so interested in shooting the steam boat Here are a couple of them.

Here is my favorite from the studios

Hope everyone has a great day!

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Here is my favorite from the studios

I really like this!

LOL about the steamboat.

 

[tlcmommyx4]

I really like this!

LOL about the steamboat.

Thank you so much. I just love your TR

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I just love your TR

Thank you! I'm having fun doing it.