Ohhh how exciting that you guys booked a LM room!!! I hope you love it as much as I did!Awe you guys are way too cute!!!! I'm loving your report,and sorry i've been away a while UGH real life!!! I'm all caught up now ,and I gotta tell ya ur room pics did it for me so I've now booked AOA for May in an ariel room,with my youngest princess,can't wait
Sure thing! I basically boost my iso, my camera is pretty decent for noise on high speeds and then in my raw editor in Photoshop I reduce the noise a little further. Looks like, according to my EXIF data...
I've tried that, but I'm always so scared! I'm sure it would be fine, but bad things go around and around in my head, hahahaOh and a tip - I always bring my camera (which is a dslr) on rides with me, I just put my arm through the strap and then sort of wrap the strap around my wrist and hold the camera body in one hand...I've never dropped it from my hand, but even if I did it is still secured by the strap wrapped around
I do love FOTLK, and to make up for the musical babies, I got some fun pictures so I guess it's all good.UGH I hate when it's dark so early in the evening!!!
FOTLK is such an awesome show!! Too bad about your background music though!
I love the quotes on the construction signs, they really do make it feel inspiring!!
You know, I know that Disney is full of kids and sometimes they cry. I've made peace with that.Your FotLK pictures are great! Too bad that you couldn't fully enjoy the show, though. I know it's horrible, but I always cringe when I'm waiting in a show and see parents with a young child sit down next to me.
But the annoying part was that these people weren't sitting anywhere near us! When their kids started crying, they got up and stood behind us... I guess so as not to annoy the people who they were sitting next to. 
When I said I boost my ISO, in this situation I just meant that I turned it up. However, there is an "ISO Boost" on it too. On my T3i my ISO goes up to 6400, but there is another setting in the menu (which I have yet to try) that will boost it to 12,800. My old SLR, the Rebel XT went up to 1600, same as your Rebel and had no boost. The good news is that even with 1600 ISO, the older Canons were the best (in my opinion) for low grain. You should be able to set your ISO up to 1600, shutter speed of 1/125 or even 1/100 (no slower or you start to blur) and set your camera on shutter priority mode (Tv) so it will stay on that shutter speed no matter what. Your lens makes a big difference too. For example if you have a big lens with a max. aperture of say, f2.8, then you'll get more light in your shot (the smaller the f-number, the bigger the hole letting in the light to the sensor). The usual kit lens that comes with most SLRs, the 18-55 usually has a max aperture of 3.5, and that's only if you're zoomed all the way out to 18mm.Well you know I love your pictures and regret that I got behind somehow with your TR. Oh crap, I'm just busy and I always seem to find your TR when I'm reading at work and well, that just won't do.
OK - explain to me how you boost the ISO. I think my ISO only goes to 1600. Is that a function of your camera or is there actually a way to boost it on any DSLR. My camera is just the base Canon rebel. I would really like to get more light in my shots like that. Thank you for listing the other settings because I know what most of those mean.
I'm going back to look at your pics again!
Excellent! Which lens are you using on your camera usually? I know you have some different ones.
To all my Canadian readers, Happy Thanksgiving weekend!
I hope you find yourselves with lots to be thankful for, I know I'm feeling extra thankful this weekend.
We left off just a mere 5 days ago, just swiping the key and opening the door to the Little Mermaid room.
So? What did we see?
Sunday September 16, 2012
"A Part of This World"
Well first off, we got our King bed request!!
I "AWWW!"'d out loud when we opened the door. How adorable is this room? I was in love with the headboard and reading light, the framed picture of Eric was so nice, the carpet was too cool.
Flounder and Sebastian were on the wall:
(Crappy phone pic!)
A Mickey was waiting for us:
So happy to have fridges in all the value resorts now:
I wandered into the bathroom and found my favourite part of the room:
The shower is Ariel's grotto! How adorable!
Didn't know they had the H2O+ stuff in the resorts now. Cool!
I was itching (almost literally) to get in the shower so I put my camera away and dug into my carry on. Got out some essentials and a change of clothes and I was off to the grotto! I may have sang Part of Your World in there a little.
When I was finished we decided to head down to get something to eat and then head out to a park!
So, what did we think of the resort and room?
*Resort Review Alert!*
First Impressions:
The resort is laid out almost exactly like Pop Century, so it certainly wasn't hard to find our way around. The themeing was excellent. A lot of people were concerned about the long walk from the Little Mermaid rooms to the busses and main building, but we found the walk not too long and so pleasant that it went by even more quickly.
Some things have changed since our last Disney stay including fridges in all value resorts -- we thought that was great, but can't deny, we missed those three extra drawers it took up. We had to hang a lot of our clothes and there weren't enough hangers. So next time, we ask for more hangers and all will be well. Also free wifi -- I thought that was great. We could use our phones (since data roaming in the States is wayyy too costly for us!) and my iPad, many people found the wifi service bad but I personally found it very good. It was a little annoying to have to agree to their policies every time I opened something on the net, but other than that, great service.
Our room was simple, but enough for our needs.
Also something I noted was that they did a good job trying to "gender neutralize" the room. Knowing that it's a Little Mermaid room sounds pretty girly, but the walls were blue, lots of Prince Eric, Triton and Ursula. Minimal Ariel.
I'll have a more in depth review of the place at the end of the report, but that was my initial impression of the room.
Continued in next post!
Just joinning in!
Love your photo's their amazing quality.
Love FOTLK especially the monkey on the trampolines. I always watch and think i could do that after been doing trampolining for 9 years .
Oscar looks so cute, he looks like a my cat Wesley/Wes when he was little
Glad to have you!Oscar is a funny kitty, he plays hard but when he's not distracted by a toy (or dust bunny, or dog's tail, or water dish, or ray of sunlight...) he loves to cuddle up and then he turns on the purr. He's pretty darn cute.Okay, I got a few updates behind. Sorry about that.
Oscar is adorable! Aaaahhhhh.....so so so so cute.
Oh, is he an instant purr? My kitty Hobbes was an instant purr. All I had to do was look at her and her motor would start going.
Hahaha, hating wildebeest due to manslaughter. Hysterical.
OMG....you got a lion roar. That's epic dude...seriously epic.
Listen, when it comes to a long hot day at the Animal Kingdom, the air conditioning at Pizzafari will always win out.
The zoom lenses usually don't have a large f-stop unless you spend a pretty penny on them. Of course there is the issue that when you open your aperture wide up (especially with a f2.8 lens) your depth of field gets shallow. So the tumble monkey in front might be in focus, but not Timon, you know? So there are bad points to a large aperture too.
I wanted to try Flame Tree too, but we were so close to Pizzafari and so hungry and hot and tired... well, you know.
You're welcome! I love to talk cameras, so any time you want to know what I'm using, feel free to ask!
I saw one too, but a different one!! There's a mickey watch in the jewellery. I see the one you see now too, that's cool!Ohhhh I adore FOTLK, it's so awesome! I always get right into the singing part ehhehe.I love your FOTLK pictures. We saw it on Sunday and I can't wait to share some of my pictures. I think I may have convinced my DMIL to visit Animal Kingdom when they go to Florida in January because I was raving about FOTLK. She's a sucker for a good show!
You should try Flame Tree sometime. It's sooooo good!
I was hoping we'd get to see the lion roar on our safari, but we didn't. The giraffes were extra friendly, though!
Signing up. The title of your TR drew me in. Well done.
LOVE the pictures of the room. My daughter would pretty much have a heart attack in a Little Mermaid room. So cute!
I can never sleep in on the first morning either. Too excited. Sleeping in Disney is for the weak!
OMG how cool was that that you got to see a real lion roar. What a privilege! FOTLK is one of my favorites too. It just never gets old.
Can't wait to read more.
Q
Glad to have you!
I was pleased with the pictures I got, considering how far back we were! The many, many lights in there help
I'm just going to share a few favourites that we got done up to this point before I start on the actual report. There aren't too many!
Oh well, on previous trips I've had excellent luck with the tigers and none with the lion. I won't complain!
") and we almost missed our boat because of it, being the last on! 
but we made it on, got buckled at the last possible moment and away we went. 
