lights of winter arch

gary

gary

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one of the great things about getting fellow photographers to come to this site is the many varied ways to view our happy place, now this is a shot that both tim and i were standing near earlier during mousefest, and i honestly don't think either one of us realized it was right under our noses, we were shown this sunday night, late after illuminations, in an almost deserted epcot, by an off duty photopass cm, out shooting with his own gear, of course we immediately tried to recruit him to drop by the site, this was taken not 15 feet from where we did most of the night time/ dark ride meet, i'll be going back next year for a do over, simply because i did not step 3 feet to my left, and try to leave out that little bit of railing, lower right corner, i was concentrating too hard on timing what might be the last monorail of the night streaking past, that and the fact that the only persons walking past were off duty cast members on their way home, so we were concerned about getting the security "move along now, nothing to see here"
almost no post processing, a little contrast, a little color slider and a very light touch of unsharp mask, almost a what you see is what i got
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Heres one from last year

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Nice idea...now if you could mount some remote flashes on the arch itself where the monorail would travel through and fire them off just as it gets to the arch...then you'd have something. ;)

Great idea and thanks for sharing (adding this to my WDW shot list).
 
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Neat angle and shot Gary, and great colors on yours Goofy.

Here is mine from this year.

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I did actually rattle off one quick one after our night meeting from that angle...but i didn't shoot it as wide and nice as yours with the monorail track and view of the entire arch:

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I couldn't help noticing the reflections of the tree and arches in the pond.

Next time, I'll have to think wider and get that monorail coming out of the top left corner for some nice comp.

But at least I had a shot from that angle! ;)

BTW, here's my straight-on arch shot, that came out fairly nice this year:

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i think we each took the shot at the same exact time within a few inches of each other, while dodging cast members who wanted to get out of dodge...
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couldn't resist trying the new frame on the monorail & lights of winter shot:
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A couple of mine of the Winter Arch.

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Hey, Tim, you should make up a CD and/or Zip file download of your actions and call them...

Devine Actions :)
 
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"Scottwdw" said:
Hey, Tim, you should make up a CD and/or Zip file download of your actions and call them...

Devine Actions :)
Click to expand...

I like that idea... or at least, write a couple of post processing articles so we can learn how do do it too
 
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Re: lights of winter arch revisited

purchase of lightroom 2.2 + purchase of kelby lightroom book + snowy cold single digit weather + spouse working 5 days this week + all the mousefest 2008 raw files still on the hard drive = some new looks at post processing, i'm really trying to kick it up a notch here with my post work, the kelby book really helps to follow along on what does what in lightroom, that and the fact that lightroom is just bangin dawg, just bangin. it's love at first process for me and this program
what say you all, i kind of like this look, i like the darker background
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so after further review the play was recalled, still gary's ball, i did not like the monorail being too blacked out, went back and started over, tried more exposure and some other stuff, i like this one better
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Yes, I like the second one better two because it brought back the air spot lights (from the Studios?) right behind the tree as well, which I thought was a really great little touch (in fact, it might make the picture for me). Overall, though, very nice Gary! Looks much cleaner and crisper than the very first one you posted on this thread.
 
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thanks for the comments, i'm having so much fun and learning so much about lightroom by following along with the kelby book that i may actually take down all the photos on my phanfare site from mousefest 2008 and replace them with re-processed via lightroom.
i will make this bold statement, lightroom in combo with the kelby book, together this should mean no one should shoot in auto jpeg anymore, it's a real easy to understand way to get into post process of raw
 
i am still trying to get into lightroom. i enjoy processing the raws with it, but i had photoshop/bridge down to a science that lightroom seems foreign to me with the importing and collections, etc. i have the same book but need to really read it to see if i am going to continue on the lightroom journey. i do like the "keep" and "junk" buttons to tag photos. (X and P, i think).

Anyone else interested in the Kelby Lightroom Book? CLICK HERE
 
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