You come into a Disney park with your eyes open wide. There are endless distractions attracting all five of your senses at the same time. Wandering down, up, and across paths you see plenty to photograph. Enormous icons are in your face, movies come to life, and fantasy becomes reality. It can be sensory overload and we keep going back for more, and more, and more.
When you do stop (and you do need to stop moving) to take a snapshot of your resort building, the upside down car or mountain, give yourself a moment to try shooting both horizontally and vertically. It’ll take just a few seconds to create alternate looks.
Upon bringing the camera up to your eye or eye level, it’s nearly automatic to hold it horizontally.
I’ve got the part of the queue for Disney’s Hollywood Studios’ Star Tours I wanted but I’ve also got plenty of leaves that don’t add anything of interest.
A quick turn of the camera and the photo now has impact and a level of curiosity because you’re peering between the branches that frame the Ewoks’ village rather than just seeing a “fort”* near a large tree. In addition, there’s a foundation now because you can view part of what’s holding up everything.
Sometimes the simplest of changes make the biggest difference.
*I am not an avid “Star Wars” fan so please don’t use Jedi mind tricks on me if I referred to something incorrectly. I don’t care if the Dark Side has coo…oh look, cookies!
This blog was written while listening to Bee Gees’ This Is Where I Came In.
I read somewhere (in fact, I think it was from a Picture This! blog) to take both a landscape and portrait photo of the same scene. I have to remember that next time I’m at WDW. Thank goodness for the digital age!
What a simple (and great) idea! I wish I had thought of this when taking all the pics of Christmas at Disney. Not only the change in details but depending on the use of the pic later I wish I had taken more vertically to use on calendars/scrap booking. Sometimes I just can’t crop a horizontal pic to make it work where I need one vertically.