MK - Cinderella Castle

Most of us were posting castle photos in the Hub and Environs thread. However, I agree that Cindy's place deserves its own topic.

Here's a combination of real and fake fireworks for Fireworks Friday.


Great Balls of Fire

 

Nice Scott! Yeah, tripods and longer exposures come out quite lovely. I was all handheld, very humid night, trapped in a dense crowd - I didn't even intend to watch the show - I was trying to weave my way through to the exit, but the show started and the crowd packed in tight - so I was stuck watching until the end.

 

I was trying to go through my galleries from Disney and update a few older shots which I had only uploaded at 800x600 originally - this was 10-15 years ago when displays weren't as high-res as today and it was more expensive to host more than 500MB online - so file sizes tended to be quite small. Many of those older shots were taken with 5MP P&S cameras back in the day, so I wondered if they'd hold up to posting them a bit larger to fit in better. Some weren't so good, and they all might be a touch more grainy or missing some fine details that today's DSLRs and good lenses can produce, but considering they were from 5MP tiny sensors 13 years ago, some I found were not bad at all. This is an old Contemporary rooftop shot of Magic Kingdom and the castle taken with an old Sony F717 in 2004, that I re-posted at 1400 pixels on the long side...I liked the layers of mist/pollution and trees plus the sunset colors:

 

From the way-back machine, 2006:

 

Gorgeous shot, Scott.

 

One always looks up at WDW. There are things to see everywhere.


Southeast Tower

 

Wow Joanie - that is seriously cool! I've done light streaks on TTA before, but never with the castle going past too - I like it!