Yeah, like it. Also good posting the settings, we should make that an official suggestion in photo threads.

I highly recommend going full frame eventually, however, before you do, you'll want to make sure you have all full frame glass. I knew that, going in, I'd be losing two of my lenses, my Sigma 30mm f/1.4 and my Sigma 8-16mm f/4.5-5.6 (both fantastic, but DX only).

Here's another shot:

Camera Make : NIKON CORPORATION
Camera Model : NIKON D610
Software : Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.3 (Macintosh)
Exposure : 0.017 seconds
Aperture : f/2.8
ISO Speed : 2000
Focal Length : 125 mm

Oh yeah, baby, give us some sweet bokeh love.

Always happy to bust out the crazy bokeh shots! There's a few more from that series; I'm uploading them to my SmugMug right now: http://wdwben.smugmug.com Love it? Own it!

I planned on only posting one picture today, but I noticed I'm trending dark in here, so I'll break out something daylight too, and as an added bonus, a golden hour shot. Let's do a three-for-one post!

Camera Make : NIKON CORPORATION
Camera Model : NIKON D610
Software : Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.3 (Macintosh)
Exposure : 0.010 seconds
Aperture : f/2.8
ISO Speed : 2500
Focal Length : 80 mm

Camera Make : NIKON CORPORATION
Camera Model : NIKON D7000
Software : Apple Aperture 3
Aperture : f/8.0
Focal Length : 28 mm

Camera Make : NIKON CORPORATION
Camera Model : NIKON D7000
Software : Apple Aperture 3
Aperture : f/5.6
ISO Speed : 100
Focal Length : 30 mm

Could we see the monorail sunset shot without any post effects?

One thing I forgot to say: real Disney nerds will notice the picture I posted of Cinderella Castle is incredibly unique because you are looking straight down Main Street USA at the castle. Normally, there is a flag pole on the way. It turns out that America's Funniest Home Videos was filming at Disney the days before in the Town Square, and the flagpole was moved from center position over in front of Town Hall, providing this unique opportunity. I also have pictures of the Wishes fireworks show from this location at the Train Station, with Cinderella Castle and no flagpole.

Fun fact: These next two pictures were taken with the same lens. Amazing how that can look completely different based on the subject material and distance to the subject of the shot (and frankly, the shape of the subject).

This shot is from Photomagic 2013, a gathering of Disney photographers put on by the Disney Photography Blog (for whom I run the Instagram account, @disphotoblog). It's right after a real fizzle of a sunset, but we really had a fantastic post-sun pink hour. This was an HDR shot, so 3 brackets combined to get the dynamic range I wanted. I've moved away from HDR since going full frame; the amount of data I can capture now is incredible on the D610.

Camera Make : NIKON CORPORATION
Camera Model : NIKON D7000
Software : Apple Aperture 3.5.1
Aperture : f/5.6
ISO Speed: 100
Focal Length : 8 mm

This second was taken during a fantastic sunset on October 1, 2012, which was EPCOT's 30th anniversary. There was a bunch of rain, and then all of a sudden, this sunset bloomed and the group of people I was hanging out with scattered in every direction. This is one of my shots, and one of my favorite shots that I've taken. It is a hand-held HDR. I think my favorite thing about this picture is just how split the colors on either side of Spaceship Earth are. You have incredibly cool blues to the left and these incredibly warm oranges and golds on the other, and that looming geodesic sphere in silver between the two. I really lucked out.

Camera Make : NIKON CORPORATION
Camera Model : NIKON D7000
Software : Apple Aperture 3.5.1
Aperture : f/4.5
ISO Speed: 100
Focal Length : 8 mm

Last edited by Ben (2014-02-01 15:35:26)

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Nah, it's just a light-wrapped tire swing.

It appears I have yet to post an in-park fireworks picture. Well, let's fix that. IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth (fan-bloody-tastic show, by the way). This was part of the Peace On Earth tag that they add during the holiday season. Fireworks are something I do on full Manual mode. I set my aperture to what feels right, usually anywhere between f/8 and f/12, and set the shutter to bulb mode. This means as long as the shutter-trigger is held down, the shutter remains open. ISO is set really low at 100 so I can keep the shutter open longer. Obviously, this necessitates a tripod. Finally, my secret weapon is a variable ND filter. It's actually two pieces of neutrally polarized lenses, and when you spin the outer lens, it fights with the inner lens and cuts the light entering the camera. This allows even LONGER shutter times. Mine is a 1 to 10 stop variable ND filter, stops counted in aperture, of course.

File Size : 9.6 mb
Camera Make : NIKON CORPORATION
Camera Model : NIKON D610
Software : Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.3 (Macintosh)
Exposure : 18.000 seconds
Aperture : f/11
ISO Speed : 100
Focal Length : 28 mm

Time to update! It's Flower and Garden time over at EPCOT, which means we have flower-beds and topiaries galore!

They've also introduced a new parade over at Magic Kingdom with a fire-breathing dragon!

Also in the parade are everybody's favorite Disney sisters now:

Also in Magic Kingdom, the new rollercoaster, Seven Dwarf's Mine Train, is starting to take shape and should be open for during, and I love Disney's timeframes, Spring 2014:

Never gonna argue with a happy accident of a shot:

And I'll also never argue with perfecting a technique until you nail a shot that's been alluding you for years:

And to end, something completely different. I've been to Israel twice in two years (once with my family as a bonding trip after we lost our house to a fire and once on Birthright, yes, I'm a practicing Jew), and I've recently started going back through my shots and reediting a bunch of them. This is one that includes icons from the three major religions in the area. The Kotel and Dome of the Rock are on the left side of the screen, and the Mount of Olives sprawls on the right side. In the middle is the kind of security that Israelis of all religious beliefs have to go through due to extremists on all sides of the isle:

Stunning photography as always Ben!

Went to the mountains yesterday felt like I was hiking in Middle Earth