POTD - The Magic Kingdom

[mwjw]

Do the Wishes fireworks go that far?

That's the only spot back there that I can find to shoot Wishes that has an interesting foreground. I thought at first maybe I could get them over the ride itself with the Thunder Mt. red rock in the shot but the bursts go off far to the right of that.

 

[RedOctober25]

I've also shot the fireworks from the Frontierland docks with them going up over the liberty belle.


Sent from my iPhone...

 

[mwjw]

fireworks friday by mwjw, on Flickr

 

[Hockeyman]

Steve in Motion by Mike Sperduto, on Flickr

 

[mwjw]

themansion by mwjw, on Flickr

 

[Scottwdw]

Have to wonder why they have lights on at that location on Tom Sawyer Island at night.

 

[Evad]

theveryfastparade by mwjw, on Flickr

Wow great shot!!!!

 

[HPS3]

Mark, that is such a cool shot. I like the framing and detail in the image. Was it cropped? Shot from the train station?

 

[Tim]

Cool beans.

 

[Hockeyman]

Dumbo Water by Mike Sperduto, on Flickr

 

[HPS3]

Wow Mike, I dont know how you pictured this but I like it.


Liberty Belle by Harry Shields, on Flickr

 

[Scottwdw]

Mark, that is such a cool shot. I like the framing and detail in the image. Was it cropped? Shot from the train station?

And to pile on...did you use a neutral density filter or did you expose for the castle an let everything else run through the frame? ; Thanks for your input!

 

[mwjw]

Mark, that is such a cool shot. I like the framing and detail in the image. Was it cropped? Shot from the train station?

Yep it was shot from the train station and I had to crop it a bit to get rid of the flag pole.

 

[mwjw]

And to pile on...did you use a neutral density filter or did you expose for the castle an let everything else run through the frame? ; Thanks for your input!

Scott,
; ; I did not use an ND filter, I exposed for the castle and set f/14 so it would expose a little longer. It was a single RAW shot and I did 3 runs through Adobe Camera Raw with the same shot so that each part of the shot would be exposed the way I wanted. I then used layer masking to punch through to each layer I found most pleasing. I flattened the 3 layers and then used detail enhancer with NIK Color Efex ; and again used layer masking to only use the parts of the NIK layer I found better. Last I used some sharpening and noise reduction where I had to.

 

[Hockeyman]

Wishes by Mike Sperduto, on Flickr

 

[HPS3]

Nice one Mike!


Blowing Kisses by Harry Shields, on Flickr

 

[Hockeyman]

Thats an awesome shot you git there Harry!

 

[jbwolffiv]

Great stuff Mike and Harry! ; Love those bursts behind the castle and the color and expression and timing are great in the Minnie shot.

 

[HPS3]

Thanks Mike and John!

Mike I like those bursts behind the castle also. I like how you can crop into the castle.

John, it helps when you have a 2 year old waving. Oh yeah, luck counts too.

 

[HPS3]

Cinderella Castle by Harry Shields, on Flickr