A Cliché in the Day Time

Magic Mornings is something magical indeed. For photographers, hobbyists of professional, it means Disneyland becomes a magical playground for photography opportunities.

So what is magic mornings? Well, if you stay at a Disneyland Resort hotel, it means you get entrance to the park 1 hour earlier than everyone else on certain days. This translates to getting fairly empty park photos in the day time, something which is only usually accomplished at the wee-hours at night after the park closes. Of course, its not 100% empty, but empty enough for you not to worry about doing sudden stops and/or tripping somebody when trying to get that weird angle photo. In my case, it translates to getting Disneyland's hub fairly empty enough to get this picture without anybody else.

It's a similar angle to the photo posted a few minutes earlier, but being that it's day time, I had to use different settings. So here's what I used:

Exposure Program: Aperture priority
Exposure Time: 1 / 499
Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode
FNumber: 3.5
Focal Length: 28
ISO Speed Ratings: 400

So what's interesting to note in these settings. Well, first of all, I got to use only ISO 400. I could've gone lower, to say ISO 100 or 200, but being that my camera is fairly grain free at 400, I wanted to be prepped to take in different lighting conditions. You can also see that I had my lens at 28mm, so it's safe to assume that I used my 28-105mm lens. I use this lens a lot so don't get bored if I mention it a lot. Exposure time, or shutter speed is at 1/499, which sounds awkward. I probably had it set at 1/500 and it recorded something incorrectly, or perhaps, if you noticed, I did shoot it in Aperture Priority, it didn't use the regular settings it would give me. So I set my aperture at f/3.5 and the camera automatically set it to 1/499. Aperture priority pretty much lets me set my Aperture to whatever I want, and it also lets me choose as to how I want my light meter to read. It then takes those two values and changes my shutter speed to get that final image based on the settings I chose. It's a wonderful setting if you're on the move and need to get that photo you want as fast as possible.

Well, that was a nice detailed explanation. Take it for what it's worth because I really don't know how helpful it is. Leave a comment if you want ot learn more about what I did. Thanks :)