Ursula from the Littler Mermaid ride at Disney's California Adventure

Ursula from the Littler Mermaid ride at Disney's California Adventure.

Sulley & Boo

Sulley & Boo

The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

You can check in but you can never check out, oh wait, that's from a song, right?
Nikon D800, 1/125, f/1.4, ISO 2500, 35mm

Go ahead and kiss the Girl - Littler Mermaid Ride at Disneyland

Ariel & Prince Eric 

Go ahead and kiss the girl, really.  Well, the next scene it shows them getting married so I guess he finally does kiss the girl.
Nikon D800, 1/250, f/2.8, ISO 2000, 130mm

Ariel and Prince Eric at the end of the Little Mermaid ride from Disney's California Adventure

Ariel and Prince Eric

Ariel and Prince Eric at the end of the Little Mermaid ride from Disney's California Adventure.
1/250, f/2.8, ISO 2000, 70mm

Mike from the Monsters Inc ride at Disney's California Adventure

Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc.

This is Mike from the Monsters Inc ride at Disney's California Adventure.  This was taken with a Nikon D600 with the following settings: 1/320, f/1.4, ISO 1600 using a 35mm lens.  Some color correction using the white balanced that was about it.  They use some very harsh lights in this ride (as they do in most of the dark rides) so those needed to be pulled out.  The colors here are green and blue in most of the scenes.  It is hard to pull those colors out and still have some color for Mike and Sulley since they are green and blue!?

Pete's Dragon in the Electrical Light Parade

Pete's Dragon in the Electrical Light Parade 

This picture was actually taken several years ago when the Electrical Light Parade (or actually a shorten version of the Parade) was at Disney's California Adventure.  This was back in 2005 and it was a way to get people to come over to the other Park.  Well, it worked for us.
This was taken with a Nikon D200, 1/10, f/5.0, ISO 800 at 75mm

Ariel From Disney's California Adventure

Ariel 

Ariel the little Mermaid from Disney's California Adventure ride.  This was taken with a Nikon D800 with the settings of 1/200, f/2.8, ISO 2000 and with a 70mm lens setting.
On the ride when you get to this scene she is almost close enough to touch (well, maybe not that close, but a lot closer then the Pirates are) so you have to be careful not to zoom in to much.
 

Monsters Inc ride at Disney's California Adventure with Mike and Sulley

Mike & Sulley

Monsters Inc ride at Disneyland is considered another Dark Ride and with it comes all of the issues that you would normally have in taking pictures in Dark Rides.  The issues are 1) you are moving and what you are taking pictures of are also moving, 2) it is dark in there!, 3) they flood the whole thing with hash lights, in this case it is blue.
The problem is that Sulley is blue and if you take out the hash blue light you also turn Sulley into an Abominable Snowman and he will need to relocate to the Matterhorn.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D600 with the following settings, 1/320, f/1.4, ISO 1600 using a 35mm lens. This shot required a little work in Lightroom. The White Balance had to be adjusted in two different areas, the first was the right side of the picture with Sulley and the area where Mike is. The saturation was also reduced for the entire photograph but it was increased slightly in the area where Mike is. The shadows were also lightened up to bring out some of the detail for the doors that are going by.

Mill at the Grizzly River Run at Disney'a California Adventure

Mill at the Grizzly River Run.

This is a picture of the Mill at the Grizzly River Run.  This was taken with a Nikon D600 at 1/4000 sec, f2/8, ISO 100 with a 14 mm lens setting.

Flo's V8 Cafe at night at the Disney's California Adventure

Flo's V8 Cafe (a great place to eat!

As with so many pictures they can be taken a number of different ways.  Certainly a tripod would have been great to take a long shutter release with a filter, but this one was taken with a Nikon D600 with the following settings: 1/400, f/1.4, ISO 250 with an 85mm lens.
The sad part of the internet is that so many pictures have to be down sized and so much of the detail gets lost.
Make sure you click on the picture to get a larger version of it to see more of the detail.