Disneyana collecting is a happy hobby for some folks but sadly no one can have everything. Whether the figurine is out of your price range or the original costume from “Mary Poppins” simply isn’t for sale, there’s still one little way of adding that special piece to your collection, take photos of the piece(s) you so desire.
Try putting your camera on Manual or Program so that you can change the settings yourself. Not ready yet? Your camera may have a setting for taking photos thru glass. If the option is there, it can be found under the Scene menu. If your camera doesn’t have that option, place your camera on Auto and turn off the flash.
For the following set of images, I used Auto and turned the flash off for most of the pictures.
Game Rule No. 1
Get your camera lens as close to the display case as possible. This will help to elimimate reflections and get you a sharper image.
Game Rule No. 2
Don’t use a flash. You can easily wind up with a big bright white spot in the photo.
By using a flash, Disneyland’s original layout looks ghostly and washed out.
Game Rule No. 3
Your camera has various options for setting the white balance. Your best bets are Auto, Fluorescent, and Tungsten. It’s a 50/50 shot at which light bulbs are being used in the room.
Set to Auto White Balance, the camera tries to find the right color combination. There’s lots of yellow left from tungsten bulbs.
Game Rule No. 4
You can always adjust the picture’s color with photo editing software once you get home.
I manually adjusted colors, saturation, and contrast with Photoshop.
One small comment on rule no. 1. Remember that your camera may adjust the shot by moving the lens somewhat to focus, leave room for this. (Can you tell that I tried this once with my lens flush to the glass and almost ruined the camera!)