Did you ever imagine a time when a photo could be taken without film? I sure didn’t. Walt would call it progress. Our friend John and his family have been around a long time and their Cast Member friends will tell you that flash photography is not allowed in their theatre. That’s not a problem because with a digital camera, you can see on the LCD screen just how good or bad your photo will be before you even depress the shutter release button.
The lighting for Carousel of Progress is excellent with the exception of when the kids and Mother are behind mesh screens. Since camera features vary slightly, some might do a better job than others when it comes to shooting indoors without a flash. Try using a Scene mode such as Candlelight or Museum. You might also be able to use Auto and turn off the flash. Refer to your user’s manual for step-by-step instructions on how to override the flash. If you’re comfortable manually controling your f-stop and shutterspeed, you’re more likely to get better shots.
For these photos I used my Canon PowerShot SX100 IS and controled all of the settings myself. I began with an ISO (film speed) of 800, a shutterspeed of 1/80 and the aperature f4. I am content with how well ISO 800 held up. The CM that day was booming all kinds of no-no’s over the microphone so I put my camera away after a few shots.
Here’s an overall shot of the first scene.
I zoomed in for a much closer look at Father. He looks fantastic for his age, gotta love cosmetic surgery.
By the time the final scene rolled around, uhh, we rolled around the final scene…I decided to take more photos. I hadn’t broken any rules and the CM seemed to have mellowed out a bit, so why not.
I had changed my settings to ISO 400, a shutterspeed of 1/50 and f4 prior to putting my camera away. Although the final scene didn’t seem as brightly lit, I decided to leave things alone. They came out a smidge underexposed but nothing to cry over.
Dad’s made it into the new millenium or the early 90’s, I’m not really sure.
Grandma kicked butt on a virtual video game, good for her.
For more advice on photographing animatronics, check out our Disney Pic of the Week beginning on March 17th. Oooh I just remembered an arcade that has Pac-Man. See ya!
So, am I the only one that got “yelled at” during COP?
During our September trip, the CM said (well, I THOUGHT he said), “No FLASH photography.” But, he really said, “NO photography.”
Since I (am) a frequent visitor to this blog and the disboards’ photo threads, I knew you COULD take pics in there, but once I started clicking, he came over the loudspeaker again and said, “NO PHOTOGRAPHY!”
Since I didn’t want to be singled out, I put my SLR away….what a rip!
I’ll have to try it next trip!
Those are great shots Lisa. Were you using your PAS?
I loved this blog. Carousel of Progress is one of my favorites at the MK. I decided on our last visit to WDW (Sept-Oct 2008) to try to take some flashless pictures of the Carousel scenes. I use a Sony Cybershot T10. I think that I only turned the flash off to take the pictures. I was following the rules-they only said no “flash photography”. My pictures of the scenes behind the screens even turned out pretty good. It’s nice to look through our photos from that trip and see the Carousel pictures. They take me back to childhood everytime I look at them.