Snow White Statues

Snow White

This is a picture of the small Snow White statues just to the right of Sleeping Beauty's Castle.
Nikon D600, 1/250, f/1.4, ISO 100, 35mm

Mickey's Soundsational Parade

Mickey Mouse

Mickey's Soundsational Parade.  1/250, f/8.0, ISO 100, 200mm
Great shot of Mickey getting the parade going.

Splash Mountain River Boat

Splash Mountain

You can only get this shot from the Train as you are passing through the tunnel that is by the Splash Mountain ride.  You can get a similar one while you are on the ride but looking down on it you have to take it as you go pass the window in the tunnel.
1/320, f/1.4, ISO 1250 with a 35mm lens

Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin Ride

Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Ride

This is a fun and fast ride in Toontown.  The issue in taking pictures on this ride is not just that it is so dark but also that the cars are going in crazy direction and you have very little control of where you are going to be pointed towards.
This was taken with a Nikon D600, 1/320, f/1.4, ISO 3200 with a 35mm lens.

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.

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!?

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.

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.

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.

The Crow in the Snow White Ride at Disneyland

The Crow in the Snow White Ride at Disneyland

This crow is just as you exit the Snow White ride.  As you get out of the vehicle he is staring you down.
Nikon D600, 1/80, f/1.4, ISO 1600 with an 85mm lens.  Nice Bokeh in the background and on him as well, really brings out his eye.

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.

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.