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Hell and Hollywood


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Its 2AM, I’m gonna make this short.

Taken off of Mulholland Drive. The very end of the Griffith Park fire. 05/09/07. About 12AM. You can see Hollywood on the right and The Observatory in the Middle.

UPDATE: Won First place in ‘Themed Weekly Contests’, 150th: Danger

Daily Disney – Hollywood Studios Balloons at Dusk (Explored)


Image by Express Monorail
Well guys, I’m back from a 5 day trip to Walt Disney World. Although I took my camera with me, with the 50mm f/1.4 mounted on it at all times, I didn’t really get all that many photo opportunities. It was a family trip and we were touring with another family that had never been to Disney World, so just not a ton of time for pictures. All in all, I brought home 803 RAW files. Probably only 1/3 of those are keepers and probably only a 1/3 of the keepers are pictures I’d post on Flickr. So that equals out to be around 87 pictures – hopefully enough to post one a day until our October trip. I feel like I really got to know my camera this trip and I played around with exposure compensation a lot and using only the 50mm really made me think about composition. I used the tilted composition a lot because everyone seems to be doing that these days, and also because sometimes I just seemed to close so sometimes by tilting the camera you can get more in the frame. I did get one night at the studios when everyone else went back to the hotel so I did pretty good there. There were so many times that I wish I had my tripod and a wider lens though. We stayed at Pop Century so I got a few decent pics there also.

All in all it was a fun trip… some highs and lows:

Highs:
-Like I said before, I got to know my camera pretty well.
-Discovered that the 50mm f/1.4 is an AWESOME lens for dark rides.
-We were able to do pretty much everything we wanted to do.
-Had a fun day at Cocoa Beach and heard (to cloudy to see) the space shuttle go off.
-Olivia rode all the attractions including Tower of Terror, Rock N Roller Coaster and Expedition Everest – and loved them all!
-Met up with my brother and his family for a day at the Magic Kingdom.

Lows:
-Man was it hot!
-Holy smokes it was crowded
-Pop Century (I’m not sure if I’ll ever stay at a value resort with the family again)
-Bus transportation (I was on the fence, but I now know for sure that I’m a rental car guy)
-People Mover being closed. I can’t tell you how many times I walked by wishing I could take a ride on the TTA.
-Missed out on experiencing the American Adventure because my family thinks it’s boring.
-Totally blew it (photographing, again) Peter Pan’s Flight.

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Quick Exif:
Exposure: 1/40
Aperture: f/1.4
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO: 200

Pictured:
Hollywood Boulevard
Disney’s Hollywood Studios
Walt Disney World Resort
Bay Lake, Florida
June, 2009

Thanks for droppin’ by!

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This picture made it to Flickr Explore June 20, 2009 – #1 – thanks everyone!

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