Carousel at Night

[jbwolffiv]

I had never ventured into Fantasyland at night and this is one of the shots I took during an EMH evening this past July. ; Any suggestions or comments?

 

[zackiedawg]

Not bad! ; I've taken something similar too - it's a neat shot. ; Some ideas/critique - maybe I'd experiment with a shorter shutter speed - the long shutter I think blurs out the motion of the carousel too much, so you can't really get much effect - a shorter shutter would look more like a spinning ride. ; Also, the WB looks a wee bit warm - Disney has a propensity to use warmer lighting, so I find either adjusting WB in RAW, or if shooting JPEG, I often adjust to Tungsten before shooting. ; And an 'additional' shot idea would be to try a wider perspective with the castle also in the shot behind the carousel...that's one I've tried a few trips ago, and need to work on as it wasn't as good as I wanted.

I'm looking forward to getting up there again in a few weeks!

 

[jbwolffiv]

Thanks for the ideas! ; I have always left the whire balance on auto, but just recently discovered that is no good in many situations. ; I did not think of adjusting during dark photos. ; I will definitely try these ideas next time. ; Thanks!

 

[zackiedawg]

Yeah...I've done the same in the past - over the past few trips I've started adjusting white balance first, and it definitely helps. ; Lots of sodium vapor lights around the resorts at Disney which cast strong yellow/orange, and many other reddish lights such as around Frontierland...so some white balance definitely helps if you're not shooting RAW. ; Quickie example - Norway stave church - check out how reddish the cast was, even tinting the whole sky, because of all the lights around the pavilion:

A different time, and setting white balance first before shooting, and the sky looks much more natural:

I'm definitely trying to be more cognizant of my WB before night shooting!

 

[jbwolffiv]

Huge difference!! ; Again, thanks! ;

 

[mSummers]

Nice shot John! ;

I've found that when shooting in the parks at night, it helps to bracket the shot and then combine several shots to create one final image. ; On shots like this, that would allow you to use the shorter shutter speed to blur the ride less like Justin suggested, but still have the longer shutter speed shots to properly expose the darker areas of the image.