ever stop in Orlando for a 1 hour layover and wind up at the magical express?

The Wicked Witch has been trying to rain out our vacation

We ate at 50's Prime Time Cafe today.

What's for dinner Mom?

It all started with a mouse. ~Walt Disney.

Hi Eeyore my two most used lenses are the Tokina 11-16mm and the Nikkor 70-300mm VRII and I use a Nikon D7000.
The shot of the Castle is HDR which means I blended 2 or more images in HDR software. The way HDR works is you take the same framed shot at different exposures this allows you to get all the details in the shot. With HDR you can make images look surreal or just reduce the noise and bring out some highlights like I did with the castle. Normally for my HDR work I set up the tripod and use a promote computer that plugs into the camera and tells the camera how many shots I want and what exposure levels. I normally use 7 images at .7ev spacing, dont fret though all the HDR work I did this time was done with the ev spacing available on the camera and for the castle I only used 2 images. I use Photomatix for my HDR processing and its only 50 bucks for the program. Now if you want to do HDR and your camera doesnt do bracketing you can take your shots manually and import them into photomatix it will adjust the images and crop them to clean up the edges.

For the image of the artists desk I totaly ignored the cameras opinion of what the proper exposure should be, if I had followed the cameras suggestion everything would have been exposed and the focus wouldnt have been on the gloves and glasses on the desk. I kept stepping the exposure down until I had the image I wanted then I used an adjustment brush to highlight Mickey. I could tell you exactly the settings on the camera but unless the lighting is exactly the same and your using my camera you wont get the same image so dont fret about the settings to much. (If you still want them I will be happy to give them to you).

The best thing you can do is put your camera on manual settings and play with it to understand how light affects your cameras sensor. For instance when taking a portrait shot (something I dont get to do with Angles because she heads for the hills when I point mine at her ) what you normally do is set the exposure dark then use a flash to expose your subject. I wouldnt do this in Disney however for a portrait shot what I would do is open the lens up to blur the background just enough to make out what it was but reduce its impact on the image. This is an example of using a flash

my biggest mistake with this is my camera was to high so you cant see her eyes but you notice how the subject pops off the background you can get the same effect by blurring the background.

I hope this gives you some ideas if you have more questions ask away. Oh and if I dont answer Angels killed me for posting her pic

Sorry it to so long to get back to you but I had a horrible migraine yesterday and I was in no shape to answer.