Elephants flying at the speed of light

PropilotBW · Sep 17, 2014

The Dumbo ride at Disney Magic Kingdom. No tripod used.
What do you think?

sscarmack · Sep 17, 2014

Very cool!

sm4him · Sep 17, 2014

Yeah, that really IS pretty cool. How long was your exposure? I could never do that handheld! Too much hand tremor, I wouldn't have anything at all in focus.

PropilotBW · Sep 17, 2014

sm4him said:
Yeah, that really IS pretty cool. How long was your exposure? I could never do that handheld! Too much hand tremor, I wouldn't have anything at all in focus.

It was 2 seconds. Not necessarily "hand held" so to speak, just leaned up against a pole as a brace.

Stradawhovious · Sep 17, 2014

It IS pretty cool.

Would have been cooler in landsacpe orientation to get all of the ride in frame!

My .02

PropilotBW · Sep 17, 2014

Stradawhovious said:
It IS pretty cool.

Would have been cooler in landsacpe orientation to get all of the ride in frame!

My .02

I agree 100%. 17mm wasn't wide enough.

Scatterbrained · Sep 17, 2014

Long exposures of Dumbo are always fun, but I think this one is just begging for a wider FOV. Still great colors, though, very vibrant.

waday · Sep 17, 2014

Very neat!

PropilotBW · Sep 17, 2014

Scatterbrained said:
Long exposures of Dumbo are always fun, but I think this one is just begging for a wider FOV. Still great colors, though, very vibrant.

Thank you!
I wish I had a tripod...I could have made it work with 17mm...just couldn't be next in line at the same time :1247:

Desi · Sep 17, 2014

Very cool. I'll have to try that next time.

PropilotBW · Sep 17, 2014

Here is another one I took. Again, without a tripod. Shutter was slightly longer @ 2.5 seconds.
I liked the first post slightly better because you can see some of the Dumbo's changing elevation. But I like the background on this one better, no people.