The Evil Queen preparing to become the wicked witch from Fantasmic!

The Evil Queen preparing to become the wicked witch from Fantasmic!

Mickey Mouse in the finale of Fantasmic! (the best show ever)

Mickey Mouse in the finale of Fantasmic! (the best show ever)

Belle and the Beast from Disneyland's Fantasmic

Belle and the Beast from Disneyland's Fantasmic

Peter Pan on the Columbia during Fantasmic!

Peter Pan on the Columbia during Fantasmic!

Wicked Witch in Fantasmic

Wicked Witch in Fantasmic

This was taken with a Nikon D600, 1/500, f/2.8, ISO 2500, 200mm

Stream Boat Mickey in Fantasmic!

Steam Boat Mickey

This is from Fantasmic.  I changed it to black and white since it was a black and white cartoon.
This was taken with a Nikon D600, 1/500, f/2.8, ISO 2500 set at 200mm lens.

I have to wonder how he got his gloves all dirty.  I do not remember that in the cartoon.

Disneyland's Dragon in Fantasmic

Dragon in Fantasmic

The battle begins for Mickey's imagination.  Who will win?
This picture was taken with a Nikon D600, 1/500, f/2.8, ISO 2500 at 70mm.
There was some noise; of course due to the higher ISO setting, but it was easy enough to take some of it out in Lightroom.

Mickey at the start of Fantasmic with fireworks, also a close up of the same shot

These are the same picture, the bottom one is a close up.  From a distance you can see some of the detail in the shot but once you look at the close up the sparks and smoke really come alive.
This was taken with a Nikon D600, 1/320 to try and freeze some of the smoke and flares, f2.8 to let in as much light as possible and to focus in on Mickey, ISO 2500, again to get some more light in without having to much "noise" and using a 200mm lens set at 190mm to be able to get all of the fireworks coming from his fingers.

Make sure that you click on the picture to get a better look.  It is to bad that the web degrades pictures so much to cut back on the file size, but you will get an idea.

Wendy on the Columbia in Fantasmic

Wendy in Fantasmic

This is a shot of Wendy on the Columbia during Fantasmic.  What will happen?  Will she be able to fight off the pirates?  Where is Peter Pan?  Who is going to help her?
This was taken with a Nikon D600 with the following settings 1/400 (to stop the motion), f/2.8 (to allow as much light in as possible), ISO 1600 (again to let in light but not have to much "noise") with a 200mm lens set at 195mm.
Some work was done in Lightroom 5.
Oh, and everything turns out fine.

Mickey and the Dragon in Fantasmic at Disneyland

Mickey and the Dragon in Fantasmic!

What a great show!  This is a picture of Mickey Mouse fighting the Dragon, (who was the evil queen or became the wicked witch). This shoot was taken with a Nikon D600 and the settings were: 1/500, f/2.8, ISO 1600, 70mm.
Even with the ISO at 1600 the picture still retains some of the details without having to much noise.

Mickey at the start of Fantasmic! (one reason for a lot of Megapixels)

Mickey in Fantasmic 

Fantasmic has to be the greatest live show in the world, or dead show of all time, in the universe, for all time to come.  OK, maybe I like it, what do you think?

Here is Mickey at the start of the show with sprays of water coming down on him.  Click on the picture so you can see the detail.  

I took this with a Nikon D600, 1/400 of a second so I could stop the motion of the water, with an f/2.8 (so the only thing that was going to be in focus was Mickey, but it also opened the lens as far as it could to let in as much light as possible) ISO 1600 to off-set the high shutter speed (I might have gotten away with a slower shutter speed and a lower ISO setting but I can try that next time) with a 200mm lens zoomed in all the way.

Even with the longer lens I still had to crop the picture by about 60%.  If you crop pictures a lot then having a high megapixel camera really helps out to keep a lot of the detail.  The original picture was 24.7mbs in RAW format and the final cropped one in JPG is only 993KB.  A lot of the drop in size is converting it from RAW to JPG but with so much of the picture cropped out that reduced it a lot as well.  So if a picture starts off with 24MP and you crop it by 60% and then increase what is left to the same size as the original you end up with a picture that is about 10MP and you need ever megapixel you can have to keep as much detail as possible.  If you started with a picture that was 16MP and cropped it in half you would end up with a picture that was only 8MP.  So when someone asks if having a camera with a high number of MPs matters now you know that it can if you are going to crop a lot.