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    The pathway through Sleeping Beauty Castle illuminates the way to Main St USA.

    This was taken while standing next to Disney Photo Giants Ryan Pastorino, Corey Dorsey, Gregg Cooper and Bill McIntosh. This was completely inspired by the two amazing photos taken by Bill & Gregg that far exceed mine, but I like it so I guess that's something.

    1. Silver1SWA (Ryan Pastorino) 29 months ago | reply

      Haha this offers a great perspective of how much zoom I had with my partners shot. Mine was taken from right next to you.

      I should have gone wide as well. Very nicely done.

    2. Gary Burke. 29 months ago | reply

      Fantastic shot! I love the lighting on this!!

    3. Corsey21 29 months ago | reply

      The color and lighting here are perfect. One great thing about your HDR shots is that they look so natural. In fact, the only way I knew it was HDR is because I saw it in your tags. I wish I got a shot like this because my only shot from this spot was with my fisheye that I was renting.

    4. Ring of Fire Hot Sauce 1 29 months ago | reply

      Thank you.
      Corey, there is a pretty simple trick to making HDR's look a lot more natural. Once you process the HDR in Photomatix, open it in Photoshop (I use Elements) and do a Photomerge Exposure with the single normal exposure image. It makes a huge difference.
      Once I did that on this photo, I laid the single -2 exposure over the top and masked out everything but the lights at the top so they weren't blown out.

    5. Gregg L Cooper 29 months ago | reply

      Well done!! Don't you just love purple light?

    6. Burnsland (Steve Burns) 29 months ago | reply

      I like how you can see all the way down Main Street!

    7. tcwmatt (on Hiatus) 29 months ago | reply

      Awesome composition, colors, and clarity. Nice work!

    8. Corsey21 29 months ago | reply

      Interesting, I might have to try it out because it looks freakin awesome.

    9. Tracy Balcius 29 months ago | reply

      fantastic shot!

    10. Jeff.Hamm.Photography 29 months ago | reply

      The comp, DoF, and the complimenting colors in it are just wonderful! Fantastic shot!

    11. andy castro 29 months ago | reply

      Beautiful use of HDR. I have steered clear of HDR simply because it seems like too much work for something I'm often impartial towards the results of.... but this shot that looks so perfect and natural has piqued my interest.

    12. giddygoat2769 29 months ago | reply

      The way all the incredible architecture and lighting frames the Main Street Station is so nicely done!

    13. WJMcIntosh 29 months ago | reply

      Great shot! This was definitely worth making that poor security guard tap his foot. I love how the train station just glows through the castle gates. Nicely done Michael!

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