I have noticed that some of you and others on other sites from time to time post shots (usually at night) of the park when it appear to be empty. ; Are you just aware of when the perfect times for those are? ; Or is it a case where you are getting after hours access and they have left the lights on for you? ; Just wondering, because they are almost always just awesome! ;
It's usually not special access - just patience. ; Some of the shots may be during operating hours and just lucky to get a hole in the crowd, or back in the old days when there used to be slow seasons...other shots could be long exposures where some people walking through the shot simply didn't show up due to the long exposure. ; But most of them are probably because we waited until the parks closed, and just lingered that extra 45 min, hour, or longer until the vast majority of folks were gone, and just made ourselves among the last stragglers out of the park. ; If a park closes at 9, you might be able to stick around to as late as 11...it takes a while for them to filter out all the folks. ; That's prime photography time!
What Justin said. ; Several of those who get those shots wait for several hours after park close and meander taking pictures until security pushes them out.
Empty queues, too. ; Taken at 11:46PM with DHS EMH going to midnight. ; CM let Dave Kliment and I use the FastPass queue with our tripods so people would not trip over us in the regular line.
If there is one thing that you have to appreciate about Disney is they certainly give you a lot of eye candy while you wait - or don't. ; I really wish other parks would take a page out of their books. ; When I show my friends they are not only baffled by how much cue area there is but how rich it is. Nice one Scottwdw, not a soul in site
