Stupid Guest Tricks

Big Wallaby wrote:My question... how often do they plan to go through those pictures? Do you know how many times Little Wallaby and I have sat down and gone through our wedding album, much less other photos, more than a year after they have been taken?
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This brings up an interesting point. I am always amazed by the people that go around with the big cameras and take multiple pictures of the same character. The classic Brazilian groups were they all get singles and then doubles and then different doubles and then a group and then a some different doubles.

I once met a British woman who told me she had already taken 1500 pictures and it was the first week of the two week vacation. She was with a group of ten people and for each person she would be bouncing all around them taking pictures from different angles when they stopped. All I could think of it when are you going to find the time to go through all those pictures and what are you going to do.

I find myself clicking fewer pictures these days and the ones I do go into video montages with maybe one or two going into a picture frame.

NemoRanger wrote:I am always amazed by the people that go around with the big cameras and take multiple pictures of the same character.

That's the joy of digital cameras and editing software. A 16G memory card will hold over 4,000 12MP pics.

Editing software allows a shooter to have a virtual light table to view multiple pics at the same time which allows one to discard those that aren't keepers.

I shot a one day regatta a few years ago. My shot count was almost 800. I posted about 300 on Flickr.

NemoRanger wrote: I once met a British woman who told me she had already taken 1500 pictures and it was the first week of the two week vacation.

I take a ridiculous number of pictures on vacation (and when visiting a park about a mile away, or of cool buildings two blocks away, the cats, flowers that come up in my yard every year...). Very few of them ever get printed or anything; I'll cull a few for a little "album" on that vacation/location but that's about it in terms of sharing stuff. What really kicks my count up is doing "panoramas", where I'll just stand in one place and take pictures all the way around. I love those for the same reason I love wandering Google maps. :p:

Not that I know what that reason is.

I have all but stopped taking pictures at WDW. It seems I keep taking pictures of the exact same things. I now have five copies of everything. The last time I was there, I didn't even take my camera. You know what? I really enjoyed seeing the parks with my eyes instead of behind the lens. Lesson learned.

ynnepztem wrote:I have all but stopped taking pictures at WDW. It seems I keep taking pictures of the exact same things. I now have five copies of everything. The last time I was there, I didn't even take my camera. You know what? I really enjoyed seeing the parks with my eyes instead of behind the lens. Lesson learned.

I've been guilty of the same thing, and have had to make myself cut back -- but I do at least write up detailed trip reports with pictures, and they are fun to reread. In fact, just in the past couple of weeks I've be rereading my last WDW/DCL trip report, where we met both Zazu and Wallaby and got upgraded to the Walt Disney Suite on the Disney Wonder. So I don't regret the pictures, but it is a trade-off between relax & enjoy now vs. record & enjoy later.

ktulu wrote:My wife and I went to WDW for our Honeymoon. Part of the package was to have a photographer take pictures of us around the MK. This was before photopass. The photographer did a great job, much better than photopass pictures we've had, and we even got a picture of us on an "unauthorized" part of the castle. "We're not supposed to do this, but go up these steps..."

It is Disney, if you have the money, they will be more than happy to accommodate you. And now through the magic of the google...

http://www.disneyeventphotography.com

You're welcome :D:

It is Disney, if you have the money?
I like that statment. you cant buy the mouse, but your sure can rent him. if you have the bucks, you can have mary poppins and burt rapping and break dancing in your hotel room at 3 am.
and making you waffles.

drcorey wrote:It is Disney, if you have the money?
I like that statment. you cant buy the mouse, but your sure can rent him. if you have the bucks, you can have mary poppins and burt rapping and break dancing in your hotel room at 3 am.
and making you waffles.

To celebrate my first million I think I will rent the Walt Disney Suite at the Grand Floridian and have Mary Poppins sing me to sleep every night and then have Mickey mouse wake me up with Mickey Shaped Waffles every morning.

NemoRanger wrote:To celebrate my first million I think I will rent the Walt Disney Suite at the Grand Floridian and have Mary Poppins sing me to sleep every night and then have Mickey mouse wake me up with Mickey Shaped Waffles every morning.

You'd be better off investing in muni bonds that are tax free. Your return should be about $50,000 a year. Use that to rent the suite every year and preserve the principal.

Just 2 comments on the "how many photos should you take" question.

1. You never know when things are going to change, and those old photos can be really neat. I have some cool photos of myself at 9 on the WDW teacups - no overhead canopy, and you can see the sky buckets in the back ground overhead. I also have a photo of the "White Rabbit" who was, in 1971, about 6 feet tall. He looked REALLY different than he does now.

2. Your decendants might enjoy them more than you. But you really need to print them, because who knows if they will still be able to look at the digital versions on down the line. Raise your hand if you're like me and have several carousels of slides but no way to look at them without converting them. And I have a nice printed photo of my great grandmother at the Haddock, GA town picnic 1917. It's really cool because it was a long exposure and some kid in the front was swinging a baseball bat and theres an interesting arch. So print out a few of the best ones and put them somewhere safe. Your great grandkids may thank you for it.

My parents have a projector for those slides, and strangely it is still one of my favorite ways to look at photos. SO much lost information in digital photos...