Where are the best WDW photo spots?

[Easto]

Last time I went to WDW I ended up taking over 2,000 pictures. I am not sure if this is asinine to other people who like to take pics, but my family thought I was crazy.

I typically don't take photos of landscape and rides.

What I like is to have my family or a family member in the picture in some way or form. If I take a ride picture, it's a picture of my kids on a ride.

If I take a landscape picture I want to have a family member somewhere within the picture.

Now that I have gotten that out of the way .....

1. Where are your favourite photo spots in the Disney Parks?

2. Any uncommon (not well known), but really cool spot to take some pics?

 

[Mckymousefn]

I would like to know ideas from others as well.

 

[katt789]

-Anywhere on main Street, i like to switch it up and take some shots THROUGH the castle
Untitled by Katt mccluskey, on Flickr

-the train station!

Both on the stairs/in the lower level, and up top looking down Main Street

The little side street between the art store & the glass stores on Main St.

There's also a bunch of other "backdrops" down there, chairs & tables, different shops, etc.
The Hub Grass area, and around

-Tangled bathrooms

-Cinderella's wishing well! Never too crowded, and makes for beautiful pictures!
-Harambe market place has a bunch of places that aren't popular photoshoot spots that really are!
-The street leading down to Tower in DHS has a bunch of really cool, more "dapper" photo areas you might not think of
-Any of the resorts!! The Grand Floridian was always our favorite spot, but there's lots of great shooting spots at Fort Wildnerss and the Poly, the entire Boardwalk area too!

-Epcot's pavillions also hold a WORLD of awesome photo opportunity, so few people actually venture into the backs of the pavillions that you could do awesome shoots in so many of them, my favorite being Morocco

 

[WilsonFlyer]

Where are the best WDW photo spots?

There are 3. Two in the front and one in the back.

 

[nbaresejr]

I typically take that many images but I do most of mine without people.

Closing Time by Nick Barese, on Flickr

 

[Ratpack]

I typically take that many images but I do most of mine without people.

Closing Time by Nick Barese, on Flickr

Beautiful photo. I really have to learn how to do these HDR photos.

 

[SunDial]

I typically take that many images but I do most of mine without people.

Closing Time by Nick Barese, on Flickr

I also love taking pics at closing time. It is a completely different feeling.

 

[nbaresejr]

Beautiful photo. I really have to learn how to do these HDR photos.

Thanks. Its something I enjoy doing. Often times people think of HDR as this over the top oversaturated stuff. I prefer to blend exposures to make the scene look fairly close to the way it looks in person. Its impossible at Disney to get the scene correct in 1 exposure because the camera just done not have the same dynamic range that the eye does. My preferred method of blending is using a program called Photomatix. Of course there is processing before and after the blend to get the image to look like you see but that program is a good start.

Here are a few more of my favorites:
Wilderness Lodge Lobby by Nick Barese, on Flickr
Terror Ahead by Nick Barese, on Flickr
Grauman's Chinese Theatre by Nick Barese, on Flickr
This is Our Spaceship Earth by Nick Barese, on Flickr

 

[mcraige]

I typically take that many images but I do most of mine without people.

Closing Time by Nick Barese, on Flickr

Very nice!!!

 

[Mckymousefn]

Thanks. Its something I enjoy doing. Often times people think of HDR as this over the top oversaturated stuff. I prefer to blend exposures to make the scene look fairly close to the way it looks in person. Its impossible at Disney to get the scene correct in 1 exposure because the camera just done not have the same dynamic range that the eye does. My preferred method of blending is using a program called Photomatix. Of course there is processing before and after the blend to get the image to look like you see but that program is a good start.

Here are a few more of my favorites:
Wilderness Lodge Lobby by Nick Barese, on Flickr
Terror Ahead by Nick Barese, on Flickr
Grauman's Chinese Theatre by Nick Barese, on Flickr
This is Our Spaceship Earth by Nick Barese, on Flickr

I LOVE all of your pictures, I just wish I could figure out all my settings

 

[DVC-Cassie]

Thanks. Its something I enjoy doing. Often times people think of HDR as this over the top oversaturated stuff. I prefer to blend exposures to make the scene look fairly close to the way it looks in person. Its impossible at Disney to get the scene correct in 1 exposure because the camera just done not have the same dynamic range that the eye does. My preferred method of blending is using a program called Photomatix. Of course there is processing before and after the blend to get the image to look like you see but that program is a good start.

Here are a few more of my favorites:
Wilderness Lodge Lobby by Nick Barese, on Flickr
Terror Ahead by Nick Barese, on Flickr
Grauman's Chinese Theatre by Nick Barese, on Flickr
This is Our Spaceship Earth by Nick Barese, on Flickr

Your photos are beautiful! thank you so much for sharing!

 

[klmall]

A couple of things to consider if you have been to Disney several times or more, is to look beyond the standard places such as Main Street, park icons such as Spaceship Earth and the Tree of Life. Focus on the beautiful foliage found in most resorts, the unique park benches, reflections in water or windows and so on.

Disney does such a great job with details in buildings, signage and attraction ques, things many photographers pass by. I like to pick some of these each trip and unless it's a totally new attraction for me, ignore the typical WDW shots.

I like to look at what others post in this forum as well as all the picture threads in the Theme Parks and Strategies sub-forum. I also search various photo hosting sites such as SmugMug, and Flickr. And I get inspiration from bloggers such as Tom Bricker and DIS Photography Facebook posts.

 

[mdmdmd]

As much as I enjoy shooting in the parks, the views from the resorts can be spectacular too...