![]() ![]() With that, the show was over and it was time to review my haul. I’d lose a great finale had someone bumped the tripod, and an illuminated Partners wouldn’t have been much of a gain, especially since it’s basically naturally illuminated by the bright sky. I was hoping that the lights would be turned back on Partners, but decided to abort my mission of waiting for these lights when people kept coming dangerously close to my tripod as they tried to exit the hub. – This one is “only” 61 seconds long, but it’s the grand finale of “Remember… Dreams Come True,” (probably about 10 seconds of the shot), plus around 50 seconds of ambient light after the show. That gave a nice “natural” light to Partners, and made it easy to obtain a nice exposure of the foreground without exceeding one minute on the exposure here.ĩ:39:49 p.m. It’s more or less an alien attack on Disneyland. – Just before the grand finale, the Star Tours scene of “ Remember… Dreams Come True” goes crazy lighting up the sky over Disneyland with lasers and all sorts of stuff. Were it not for the sake of a uniform comparison here, I would have cropped this to be a portrait shot, since the lines are mostly vertical and there’s a lot of dead space on the edges.ĩ:38:20 p.m. These were bright and varied bursts, so this one would have been short had the two scenes been on top of one another. – This one was 70 seconds, and it was this long mostly because there was a delay between two scenes here. Remember not to let trying to push the exposure time interfere with getting the best shots!ĩ:37:07 p.m. Most people viewing your photos won’t care–they just want to see pretty photos. Several minute long exposures are great for “bragging rights,” but it’s important to remember that only geeks care about stuff like that. ![]() The main reason for using the ND filter is to put several different burst types together for something more vibrant and scene-filling, not merely pushing the limit of exposure times. It’s only 38 seconds long (out of necessity due to those pinwheels), but that’s fine because the bursts launched during this scene are varied in location and color. – This shot is by far my favorite of the bunch. I was able to go for a full 161 seconds and capture a lot of bursts.ĩ:36:29 p.m. I was fortunate with this photo that they didn’t start spinning until I was almost done with this shot anyway, so I didn’t have to cut the exposure short to save them from being blown. – The pinwheels here are much like the fire in the previous shots, as they are very intense and easily blown out. Overall, I think I like the previous shot more, but that’s likely because it’s so much different than the rest of these photos.ĩ:33:46 p.m. The downside to an exposure nearly twice as long as the last shot was that I lost the rim lighting that I liked on the crowd and pumpkins. – As soon as I let up on the shutter, I pressed down again (always using a remote and bulb mode, of course) and let loose for 112 seconds. ![]() ![]() I think it turned out nicely–I especially like the glow it cast on the crowd and pumpkins.ĩ:31:48 p.m. To hedge my bets, I decided to cut my exposure short (still managed to clock 67 seconds total) so I could get a second shot with the fire in it just in case this one was too blown. I wanted to capture it reasonably well-exposed it’s a little blown here, but it’s impossible to perfectly expose fire without underexposing everything else. Fire adds a tricky element to these photos, since it’s a more intense light than fireworks. – I started the next shot almost immediately, and about 30 seconds in, Sleeping Beauty Castle caught on fire. Instead, I manually set the focus between Partners and Sleeping Beauty Castle before the fireworks using Live View (before putting the ND filter on the lens), then I took a test shot to confirm focus.Īll was well at that point, but there’s always the concern that adding the ND filter will mess with focus, and with the ND filter on and without the fireworks, it was too dark to test…ĩ:30:40 p.m. This means that I couldn’t set the focus on “almost infinity,” as Partners would have been terribly out of focus if I did. This would normally be beneficial as it negates diffraction from higher apertures, but in this case, it causes issues because I have Partners in the foreground and the fireworks in the background, plus a fairly shallow depth of field at f/3.2 (ideally, I would’ve used f/2.8, but that was too shallow). Since I’m using a 10 stop ND filter here, I had to use a pretty much wide open aperture. – Immediately after that shot was finished, I started this 66 second shot. ![]()
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