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118. Taking Better Photos at Disney World · Mom Street USA

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  Welcome everybody to Mob St. USA.
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  My name is Jackie AKA Wishes Mama and I am joined today by
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  two wonderful friends of the podcast.
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  I am joined today by our good friends Ty and Sarah.
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  And today we are going to be talking about how to take better
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  photos at Disney. Now, don't take that as like an
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  insult to your current knowledge, but we are hoping to
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  maybe enhance a little bit of what you are doing in the parks
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  and give you some additional things to think about when it
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  comes to taking photos in the park.
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  So that is the goal for today. But before we jump in, Sarah and
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  Ty, how are you guys doing on this wonderful evening that
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  we're chatting? Where do we really good, really
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  good? It's been a little bit chaotic
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  start, but we're here for it. We love it.
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  We, we may have had some tech issues, just a few before we
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  started recording, but. You know, you're the one video
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  and of course this would all just happen, but we're doing
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  really good. Yeah, no.
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  And just wanted to say once again, thank you so much for
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  letting us be a part of your podcast.
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  And we're excited to just be here and hopefully give people
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  some, maybe some tips that they may not, you know, thought
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  about, you know, taking photos throughout the parks.
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  So yeah, I'm excited. It's always fun when I can pull
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  in people that know way more than me about things because
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  while I know a ton about the parks, I know very little about
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  taking photos. So this is the perfect mashup of
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  our our knowledge here. So the the goal again tonight,
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  like I said, is to give you guys just some tips and some things
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  to think about. Sarah and Ty are experts on
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  photos and videos and all that good stuff.
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  So they are here to give us the rundown on photography and give
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  us some accessible ideas that we can use.
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  And we're also going to talk about maybe some hidden photo
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  spots in the parks that we like. So whether you're using a cell
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  phone or a digital camera or whatever device you have, our
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  hope is that these tips will be able to kind of universally
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  apply to everyone regardless of what you're using.
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  So we're here to enhance the photos that you're already
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  taking and give you some extra things to think about.
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  We know that people that go to the parks, you want to document
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  your memories. And while Photo Pass is a great
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  option, and we've talked a lot about Photo Pass, I did a whole
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  episode on Photo Pass not that long ago, they may not always be
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  where you want them to be, right?
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  So we've created this episode tonight to kind of help with
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  that. So I think we're going to start
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  here with talking about some our top five tips for kind of
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  general photography information that you can apply kind of
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  wherever you are in the park. So I will turn it over to Sarah
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  and Ty to kind of guide us through their top five tips.
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  So what do you guys have for us to start?
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  Well, absolutely, 1st, I'm going to do say that these 5 tips are
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  there are some actual good settings, opportunities that we
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  could go through. But actually at the same time, a
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  lot of these are kind of hitting more the mental aspect and also
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  kind of more thinking outside the box of taking photos
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  throughout the parks and stuff as well.
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  I mean, personally, like our backgrounds, we shoot with a lot
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  of talent, which if anybody doesn't know what a talent is,
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  that's basically just like a person of like a point of
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  interest. You know, I have a lot of
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  clients that I will take photos of.
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  And likewise with Sarah, she has a lot of model photos and
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  photography for whatever it is. So captivating people inside
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  photos, but also enhancing it is very much of our Forte of doing.
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  And when we go through these parks, even though it's like our
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  downtime, we still tend to take what we learned from that and
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  apply it to our normal photos and videos that Sarah and I will
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  do throughout the parks. And which is great that you have
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  us on, because then that's what we could actually share it to
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  everybody and not gatekeep the beautifulness of it.
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  So no. Gatekeeping allowed.
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  Never. No, Yeah, honestly we'll get
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  start off immediately. The most important thing is I
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  have to highly like really talk about is composition and framing
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  of the actual photo alone. And I kind of want to break this
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  down with you, Jackie. It's, it's the not only like
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  what is in the photos, but like also the surroundings, the
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  framing, maybe even the poses of the people in there and even the
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  location of it. And I actually created a, a
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  little metaphor today and then that is think like a
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  storyteller, not a tourist. If you really look into the,
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  what the photo you're taking, like what story are you trying
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  to captivate in it? And I know that sounds really
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  almost, I, I guess creative or I don't know how to explain that.
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  But like, it really is one of those things where like, even if
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  it's just like taking a photo of one of your kiddos or your
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  significant other or even just like yourself, like as a selfie
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  or whatever, like what type of story are you trying to portray?
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  And so really what we tend to do is not only shoot different like
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  structure or like like buildings of, you know, the surroundings.
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  I mean, obviously it's beautiful, especially like the
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  Main Street and like Magic Kingdom.
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  I will say the castle. We're talking about a Millennium
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  Falcon in Hollywood Studios, which is one of my favorites.
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  I like surrounding areas, but like we're also talking about
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  like like different little spots that you could probably find in
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  the parks, like when your family is kind of going around and like
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  a really kind of living in that type of moment.
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  And that's kind of what it is, is I have like here and like a
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  little bulletproof is like what what is your kids seeing
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  something that is like maybe their first time?
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  You know, it could be even just the like little thing of like
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  the Mickey's pretzel, like for them to see that for the first
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  time ever. And if you actually do buy one
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  and just capturing them with that pretzel, like it's just
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  they're, you know, their faces light up and stuff like that,
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  like that photo is very important that they could end up
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  enjoying, you know, in in the future.
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  So, but there's also just different things like even like
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  character interactions, little details, like I said, with like
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  the snack carts, the signage, even hitting Mickeys that people
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  tend to try to, you know, find and also like locations.
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  It's also a big thing is with what is your surrounding.
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  So for example, I always think of the signature like castle
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  photo, right? Everyone thinks you want to go
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  like like when I first went, I was like, I'm getting front row
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  into the castle. You cut off half the castle,
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  right? And so really big thing is pay
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  attention to where the photo pass people are.
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  They are further back. You can don't get in their way,
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  obviously, but you can work around it and be like, oh, this
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  angle is so much better for my kid.
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  And you can see the whole castle instead of I have a photo of me
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  and you see the stage because it's taller than me and then a
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  little bit of the castle. So, you know, just look around
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  that. And I know it's a place where
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  you like want to take, you know, not have your phone with you and
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  enjoy it. But it's also like, I'm so
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  guilty of this. I love to document these moments
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  so much. So there's really not a bad time
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  to pull out your phone and be like, this will be a good
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  moment. Them waiting in line for the
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  first time for a ride that they're excited for, characters,
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  just anything like that. It's worth documenting.
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  What I think too, going along with what Ty was talking about
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  with the storytelling, like not only thinking about the story
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  you want to portray, but thinking about the memory that
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  you want to capture, right? So it may from the outside look
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  like just a picture of your kid with, you know, a churro in
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  their hand. But maybe it's their first ever
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  churro they've ever tried because you don't have somewhere
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  near you that sells them. Or, you know, whatever it may
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  be, you're not only going to capture the story, but in turn,
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  you're also capturing the memory.
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  So that way you can look back at that photo and see exactly what
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  was happening. And you remember and it like,
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  immediately takes you back. Like, I've got photos from my
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  kids first trips. That's like, yeah, I can like
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  literally take myself back to that moment and just by looking
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  at the picture. Yes, that's the, that's the
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  whole purpose of documenting it. You know, like it's memory for
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  you and for them. You know #2 is a big one is take
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  the photo even if you feel uncomfortable, like if it's
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  yourself and you want you know those cute little what you see
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  everyone posting. And you're going to Instagram.
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  Photos. You deserve those photos of
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  yourself or your friends or your kids.
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  Just take it. Nobody's going to see you.
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  If they don't know you, you're never going to see them again.
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  I have to drill this in my head, so I want to drill it in your
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  guys's head. Just take the photos.
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  Like don't obviously be in people's way, like be mindful of
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  that, but it's going to do the uncomfortable, you know?
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  Yeah. And this is kind of like what I
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  was talking about too, is like a lot of our or a lot of the tips
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  that we do have is actually like strategies for better shots for
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  your phone or like camera that you're using.
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  But the same time that realistically this is a very
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  important thing like Sarah was saying is, is it's very kind of
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  crucial because as a person that we shoot constantly for clients
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  and stuff like I feel comfortable behind the camera.
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  I don't get that weird like secondhand embarrassments, but
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  but when it comes to me being front of the camera and like
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  taking photo, like for example, when you like when we were
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  hanging out at the Oh my gosh, what was that called?
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  Potato land. No, no, no, not potato land.
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  I mean, that was also a good one too.
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  Potato. Land What was the Jolly Wood
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  Jelly wood? When we were at Jolly Wood and I
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  was in line to go see Donald Duck.
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  Obviously I love Donald Duck, but me being like a 32 year old
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  guy, like I'm standing in line with no child and I want to take
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  a photo of Tom Duck because I love him.
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  I love Donald Duck and just so much.
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  But like for me though, to get that photo, like I was like,
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  this is really weird. But I really wanted it though.
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  And it's just like one of those like situations that you got to
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  make it fun, especially like, you know, with me with Mike
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  Wazowski and I like Mike Wazowski down.
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  Like I made that interaction fun.
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  By the same time, though, if I didn't, if I was super
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  uncomfortable and I didn't want to do that, then I would have
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  not gotten those, those memories and those moments.
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  And so I'm but I'm glad I did. So.
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  But if you kind of if you, I understand that this could be
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  hard for people to do it, But if you just kind of mentally tell
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  yourself that I will never see these people ever again because
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  they're they're doing their own trip, they're doing their own
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  thing too. They're going to have, you know,
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  I mean, like I see those families that have those 50 plus
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  people that are all wearing the same shirt.
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  Like, I mean, you can't tell me that out of like that fifty
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  people, like at least five of those, those people don't want
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  to carry this shirt because it like unifies them And like
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  that's, you know, that takes a lot of, you know, guts to even
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  do so. It's like realistically, we kind
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  of get through that hump of just like, I'm never going to see
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  these people over again, Even even local people, like you're
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  never going to see people again. And it's just like enjoyed how
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  you want to enjoy it and get the photo with the characters or the
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  location or get the, you know, balloon shot, whatever you want
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  to get, like just just go and get that because it's definitely
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  it's going to be very crucial to get.
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  Yeah, and I think especially like myself as a mom, I get
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  stuck in the like, well, I'm just going to take a picture of
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  my kids or my kids can just go take the picture.
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  And it's like, no, you have to push yourself.
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  Put yourself in the photo. If you're a solo parent or a
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  solo adult with kiddos in the park, ask someone to take your
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  photos if you're not at a photo pass location, like make sure
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  that you're. Yeah, exactly.
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  They will. They will have no problem doing
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  that. So.
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  Or usually another little extra tip, if you sometimes like I
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  will offer if I see somebody trying to take a selfie couple,
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  I'm like, do you want me to take a photo?
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  And they normally turn around and says, do you want me to do
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  the same for you? And it's like, yeah, thank you.
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  Like I promise you, it's not. It's not scary like it is, but
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  it's not like. And I will say, trash cans make
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  great little tripods if you happen to need one to set one up
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  to do like a timed photo situation.
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  But yeah, there's lots of. I use my book bag to get photos
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  and I screenshot them with Ty and I like us too.
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  I'm like book bag it up like we happen, you know?
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  Right, right. And that also being said, Photo
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  Pass photographers will take photos on your devices.
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  You just have just have to ask them.
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  So if you're getting the, you know, the standard Main Street
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  Castle shot, they're going to take it on their camera, but
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  they're also totally willing to take it on yours.
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  Again, you just have to ask, which is hard.
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  And it can be hard if you're trying to wrangle little ones or
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  you've got a bigger group or whatever's going on.
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  But you just, you just got to ask them and they are more than
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  happy to do that. Yes, that's a that's another
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  just like professional tip. If you ever taking a photo with
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  families, with little ones, make sure you get the shots with
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  everybody with the little ones before anything else because you
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  have like 10 minutes. Like I know that we don't have
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  kids, but I've worked at plenty of studios and also weddings and
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  family like family portraits to understand when you have a
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  toddler or somebody that's under the age of five, you have like
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  you have like 10 minutes and then start it's like right when
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  they step foot. And so like realistically, we
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  treat it the same way. It's like just get those photos,
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  those main photos of large group 1st.
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  And then if you need to do some little split offs between like
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  whatever, then definitely get those.
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  And obviously those will be bonus, but make sure you get the
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  priority is the main group before anything else.
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  And I I promise you, it's you'll get at least something out of
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  it. Yeah, we my last big family
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  trip, there were ten of us and four of them were kids and they
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  were 864 and and 1. And so it, we literally our
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  first morning that we walked into Magic Kingdom, I looked at
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  everyone and I said, this is your mandatory group shot
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  because and I, my parents who are with us, my, my father does,
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  he is not a photo taker. He hates taking pictures.
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  And so I was like, this is your one mandatory one.
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  I promise you I will not require you to be in any other photos
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  the rest of our week. But we have to get a family
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  photo of all of us together in front of the castle.
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  And we did it first thing when we walked in during early entry
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  before we did anything else, because I was like, we won't
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  have any meltdowns. We won't have ice cream on our
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  shirts. We won't have any of that.
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  We're doing it now. Look happy and not over
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  stimulated, like everything's great, yeah.
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  Yep exactly. So I totally I love that one.
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  Take the photo even if you feel uncomfortable.
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  No one's watching. Ask for someone to take the
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  photo even if you're not super comfy about it.
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  I guarantee you they whoever you ask is going to be more than
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  happy to do it for you. Yes, and I understand like not
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  liking to be in photos, but you're one day going to look
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  back and be like, I wish I was, you know, even one, just one.
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  Right. Yeah.
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  So absolutely. I love that.
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  All right, what's #3 on the list?
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  I'm excited to hear more. Let's do it.
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  OK, so #3 is lighting is key. So let's break down lighting.
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  Just we're going to just talk about just the importance of
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  lighting in general and also breaking down throughout the
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  entire day. So obviously when you're taking
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  a photo, like depending on where you're at and the location of
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  the parks, especially if you're going to Florida, and I
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  guarantee is the same thing in California, but I'm going to
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  just say it's in Florida because that's where we go to the most,
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  that the sun is very, very bright during the daytime.
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  And so making sure that you're hitting certain spots in the
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  parks in the certain time frame of the day will give you better
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  photos than others. Obviously all of our phone does
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  auto so like they it does great regardless.
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  But at the same time, though, if you're doing a larger group of
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  people, that's when you start tend on getting more like
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  shadows. And obviously people are going
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  in between different windows of people.
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  And then you may start losing just themselves in the photo
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  because there's a weird cat like a the cast of a shadow or
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  whatever. They just got to be very mindful
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  of those and which will break down each day.
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  But realistically, though, lighting is very crucial for any
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  parts of the actual parks alone. So let's start so boarding time.
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  Obviously you kind of have more the the blue period, which is
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  kind of the opposite of golden hour.
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  So obviously, right when the roast drop and stuff like that,
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  the the sun's still coming up at the same time where there's not
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  going to be as amount of like casting shadows because
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  obviously the sun is not fully up yet.
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  So definitely taking time on if you are Rd. dropping like that
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  would be a good time to get some good photos here and there, you
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  know, and just kind of because it is more softer lights where
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  it will diffuse, you know, you know, you won't have people like
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  squinty eyes even or even like that.
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  You don't have to really worry about the sun at all.
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  So is anything you? Want to say no, I was going to
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  say like for a prime example, the lines.
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  I know the lines for rope drop in the morning sometimes could
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  be longer because of the lighting but when you try to go
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  to many of the main like icon park shots when it is like 1 or
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  12 to like 2. Those lines are not long because
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  you're directly in the sun and you're squinting the whole time.
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  So there's a reason why I understand that the line is a
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  little bit longer. But if there is a prime icon of
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  like the Epcot ball, Tower of Terror, the castle, or even the
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  the tree of life or the entrance of DAC, I would try to get those
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  first thing in the morning when it's not harsh lighting because
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  that's your your best time or rate when the sun starts going
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  down so that you have a good family portrait.
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  Because I understand like you just want to get, you see, the
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  line is short. Let's just get the photo.
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  But majority of the time they're wearing sunglasses, You're
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  squinting because it's the worst lighting and it's directly on
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  you. Yeah.
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  And then we'll kind of move into more of the midday now.
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  So like this is the midday sun is obviously going to be the
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  hottest point of the day, especially if you're going in
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  more the summertime or just in general, even in like December
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  stuff, it's pretty warm from new to 2:00-ish.
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  But this is going to be very tricky because now the sun is
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  completely up now at this point, I would really suggest you
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  looking for like shade, any overhangs even I know there's
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  some like cover spots near like the left side of the castle.
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  I don't know like what the actual like building is but if I
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  had a map out I could show you exactly what I'm talking about
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  but. Over by Crystal Palace area left
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  as you're looking at the castles.
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  Of the live castle, like from the Main Street part, like where
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  you're like you. The left or the right, they have
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  those. It's where like the the little.
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  Turrets with the little yeah, yeah, yeah, I got you.
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  They're fur. Like that, yeah, that's a good
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  spot because it's like you have like a a spot where it's shaded,
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  shaded, but then at the same time where you get a really good
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  backdrop of like the castle or even honestly, like anywhere
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  personally. I mean, let's, let's be honest,
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  like any. Any angles that you get in
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  Disney is a perfect angle. And I mean, is it designed that
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  way? I feel like personally like if
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  we really want a deep dive in that, but that's a whole nother
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  podcast. But like literally though, like
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  it is like honestly any angle's perfect, but definitely finding
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  shadow or like more shaded areas.
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  And then also if you are like in the open, make sure the sun is
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  actually behind you, not in front of you, because that will
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  reduce the amount of squinting eyes and stuff and it'll help
• 20:36
  out a lot of people just to figure all of that out.
• 20:41
  I we could talk about full on locations later on that.
• 20:46
  But other than that though, like really you're kind of focusing
• 20:49
  on like just more shaded areas for it.
• 20:52
  And then and really that's pretty much it on that.
• 20:55
  Do you have anything to say on the midday ones?
• 20:57
  Yeah, it's you can. Also the easiest way to know
• 21:00
  where the sun is is it's gonna sound so silly, like it's that
• 21:04
  simple. Look how your shadow is going
• 21:07
  and then face the other way so that it's you're you're going.
• 21:11
  Yeah, you're going without having or the easiest way that I
• 21:14
  see families do, I've seen this, witnessed it in the park, is
• 21:17
  they're going with their kid and they're like, keep going, OK,
• 21:20
  you're not squinting at me anymore.
• 21:22
  Let's get the photo. Sometimes it's that simple.
• 21:25
  But midday, when the sun is directly above you, in general,
• 21:28
  I don't see why you would want to take because that's when
• 21:31
  you're the sweatiest, you're the hottest.
• 21:33
  You want to be an AC? Take photos inside if you can.
• 21:38
  That's just my personal opinion because I don't take any photos
• 21:42
  during midday. Heat, yeah.
• 21:45
  And I will say with that too, even if you're looking for shade
• 21:47
  though I would caution to be sure that you are like fully one
• 21:51
  or the other. You don't want any awkward like
• 21:53
  shadow lines coming across like faces.
• 21:57
  Hot spots through trees and stuff are a very, if it's a
• 22:00
  smaller group, it's easier to maneuver for that.
• 22:02
  But if it's a bigger, like, you know, it's a family of five or
• 22:05
  something, one of them hits it, you're like, well, that kind of
• 22:08
  ruined. Like I see it.
• 22:09
  Right now or like you've got one person that like the, the shade
• 22:12
  line is like across their face and you're like, oh man.
• 22:15
  So just like be aware of the, the space when it comes to,
• 22:18
  yeah, depending on how many people you have or even if it's
• 22:19
  just a smaller group, making sure that you're like all in the
• 22:23
  shade or all not in the shade to help.
• 22:25
  Like if you do end up going back to do any editing or anything
• 22:28
  like that, it'll make your life a whole lot easier if you don't
• 22:31
  have to mess with lines from shadows.
• 22:34
  Yes. And then we have two more
• 22:37
  moments of the day. Obviously a lot of people's
• 22:40
  favorites and also our favorite, one of our favorites actually is
• 22:45
  golden hour. It's exactly what it means.
• 22:48
  This is the moment of like sunset where you have roughly
• 22:52
  technically you have like 45 minutes, but you have a roughly
• 22:55
  45 minutes of this beautiful sunset moment where you, you get
• 23:02
  beautiful soft lights with the rich colors and little to no
• 23:06
  harsh shadowing that's happening.
• 23:08
  And these moments right here are like, if you want that more just
• 23:13
  cinematic look or even just that I I call them Moody vibes.
• 23:18
  This is your moment and you have like 45 minutes to get all.
• 23:22
  But at the same time though, it's, it's good.
• 23:24
  Everybody looks good. The magic hour, a golden hour
• 23:28
  like it is like a diffuser on your skin.
• 23:31
  It is the best time to take photos or even if you just want
• 23:34
  pretty photos of like the castle or like a window, it's just the
• 23:38
  prime time to take photos. So this is when I go have fun
• 23:42
  like during the time. Yeah, my, my first solo trip on
• 23:47
  the first day I was in Hollywood studios and, and I like, you
• 23:50
  know what? I wasn't paying attention at 1st
• 23:52
  and like golden hour started like I could feel it because I
• 23:55
  was standing in Galaxy's Edge and I was like, oh, it's my
• 23:58
  time. And I was like hanging out with
• 23:59
  friends. I was like, I'll be back.
• 24:00
  I got to go. And I like ran ran to to Toy
• 24:02
  Story Land and got a photos and videos and ran back to the
• 24:06
  galaxy's edge and cuz it was like I have a window.
• 24:09
  I gotta get a. Man.
• 24:11
  If you want the best moments depending on the cloud coverage,
• 24:16
  this is a crucial tip for anybody who's listening right
• 24:18
  now and also watching the post version of this.
• 24:22
  Look up when is sunset and then add five to 10 minutes after it
• 24:28
  and now 10 minutes. If it's if it's clear skies, you
• 24:31
  will get the ultimate golden hour glow.
• 24:36
  If if it's a little bit cloudy, 5 minutes and if it's really
• 24:40
  cloudy, hit it exactly on sunset.
• 24:43
  Those moments are the most like important part to get the actual
• 24:48
  moments. That's why I do with my
• 24:49
  weddings, even especially when I take the bride and groom out and
• 24:53
  like on the fields and getting that crazy just golden look.
• 24:57
  It's because I'm hitting those moments.
• 24:58
  So definitely every single day just kind of like look and see
• 25:01
  like OK, like when sunset, OK, it's it's 835.
• 25:05
  OK, so at 8:45 I'm, you know, at the Millennium Falcon or I'm at
• 25:10
  the castle and I am having a photo shoot like it is a bang,
• 25:15
  like it's to start shooting constantly.
• 25:17
  But yeah, though that is the that is the main part.
• 25:20
  But other than that, you still get some good shots obviously
• 25:22
  after and before, but that is like the the best moment to
• 25:27
  actually get. And then we'll transition into
• 25:29
  night shots, which I absolutely I love night shots.
• 25:34
  But at the same time, though, let's you have to make sure
• 25:37
  where are the lights coming from.
• 25:39
  So what I'm trying to say is is like go to places has like up
• 25:43
  lighting or even like a lamp like on Main Street, like
• 25:47
  definitely utilize lights that are like even from the signs,
• 25:52
  like especially like Tron. That is a beautiful place that
• 25:55
  you can shoot some stuff. At and a quick tip for that
• 25:58
  'cause I know most people in general use their phones when
• 26:01
  they are they are not professional cameras.
• 26:05
  When you were doing night shots for iPhone or for Galaxies or
• 26:11
  anything else, you can control the auto setting of the
• 26:15
  exposure. Click that down because if it's
• 26:18
  regular auto, it will what is it called?
• 26:21
  Like overexpose the pretty lights that you're seeing.
• 26:25
  So I always for night shots, I push it down and you get the
• 26:28
  actual authentic like here's the glowing blue or you know, the
• 26:32
  prettiest park in my opinion is Hollywood studios at night time.
• 26:35
  It is just the vibe, but you can't get the pretty neon signs
• 26:39
  when you're exposure is on auto. So just click that little.
• 26:43
  What is it for you A? Little a sun or a light bulb
• 26:46
  and. Say yes.
• 26:47
  Tell us. Tell us how to do that.
• 26:50
  Yeah, on on iPhones technically if you click like for example,
• 26:54
  when you click and you see that like orange box.
• 26:56
  So you're you're looking at whatever you want to photograph
• 26:59
  and you're gonna tap your screen a.
• 27:01
  Little OK when you see that little square box pop up on the
• 27:04
  right hand side of that box, there should be like a dial.
• 27:07
  If you actually dial it down, it will expose down the the actual
• 27:12
  exposure of what you're shooting.
• 27:15
  Yes, and mine's opposite. Mine's a little circle that you
• 27:17
  drag left or right. That's why I was like, I don't
• 27:19
  know, for iPhone you just click. The same thing, back the screen
• 27:22
  and look for your little focus thing and look.
• 27:24
  And then I'll have Tyler correct me, but for Galaxy phones, you
• 27:30
  can lock it at that exposure. So like during fireworks shows
• 27:33
  or something like that, you can lock it.
• 27:35
  Tyler's going to tell me right now.
• 27:37
  This is for you. See that box right there?
• 27:39
  So you click whatever you want to look at.
• 27:41
  You see that sun, you bring that down and then it'll actually
• 27:46
  adjust. It properly.
• 27:47
  The exposure of whatever you need to focus on that will
• 27:51
  definitely help out for like night shots for whatever you're
• 27:54
  trying to do. And in theory, once you've set
• 27:57
  it, as long as you don't like close out of your camera, it
• 28:00
  should stay. So like if you're doing several
• 28:02
  photos in a row, just don't turn your screen off and just keep it
• 28:07
  open. So that way you you still have
• 28:09
  that setting. You can always go back in and
• 28:11
  redo it if you need to, but that'll save you a few extra
• 28:14
  seconds, especially if you're doing like fireworks like you
• 28:16
  were talking about. That's a big one.
• 28:19
  But also like what I'm also trying to say is with like
• 28:23
  finding actual natural lighting of like up lighting on a
• 28:25
  building or even like lamps if you're kind of outskirts of like
• 28:30
  because I'm going to use the magic Kingdom, for example, if
• 28:33
  you're like near more like to the teacups area that has
• 28:36
  tremendously a lot of low lighting, where if you actually
• 28:40
  don't have steady hands or any photos you try to take,
• 28:43
  especially when it's like dark, it is going to be so blurry.
• 28:47
  And because it's it's because it's, it's underexposed.
• 28:50
  So it's trying to, I mean, I'm going to get a little nerdy
• 28:52
  here, but like when you're taking a photo, like it's trying
• 28:56
  to auto correct the actual lighting that's happening in the
• 29:00
  area. So as it's taking a, when you're
• 29:04
  hitting the shutter release on your phone or even the camera,
• 29:07
  it's trying to figure out where the light source is.
• 29:10
  And sometimes we'll do what's called a long exposure where
• 29:13
  it's trying to collect what they, what it can, which
• 29:17
  therefore, if you're not holding your camera steady, it will make
• 29:21
  your actual photo blurry. And now some people use it as a
• 29:25
  creativity like like spin or whatever.
• 29:28
  You get a fun like like blur. But if you're wanting to do
• 29:32
  that, I will highly suggest you using what's called burst mode.
• 29:35
  I'd know that's on. I know that's on iPhone.
• 29:37
  I don't know what it's called an Android, but you guys have burst
• 29:41
  mode where you guys like make like I guess like back then it
• 29:44
  was called like boomerangs. I think so, yeah.
• 29:47
  But like, yeah, but you could do like a burst mode where you
• 29:50
  could like make a fun like little like video.
• 29:53
  But yeah, other than that, though, definitely looking for
• 29:56
  lights. Definitely Main St. leaning on
• 29:58
  railings, finding a window, whatever it is.
• 30:02
  I mean we'll go more into it, but like Hollywood studios
• 30:06
  vibes, great vibe like that is my.
• 30:10
  Go to and then also just if it is an option, obviously photo
• 30:16
  pass always has a flash yeah be mindful that your eyes might get
• 30:20
  the flash eyes of like it's really bright.
• 30:22
  But if that is an option for you, they have a work around
• 30:26
  where they have a direct flash to light you up.
• 30:28
  Yeah, so and. I mean like if we really want to
• 30:31
  give you one more tip before we move on to the next one, we love
• 30:34
  continuous lights, not flashlights or like not like
• 30:37
  flashing. So what we tend to do as well,
• 30:41
  even if we like professionally and non professionally, what
• 30:46
  we'll do is we'll do one of our cameras.
• 30:48
  I will like hold my phone and just put on the, the, the actual
• 30:54
  like flashlight on, hold it to whatever we're shooting or the
• 30:59
  person that we're shooting. And then so that we could take
• 31:01
  photos. Personally, a continuing light
• 31:03
  looks a little bit better than flash.
• 31:05
  That's my personal preference. I do know that people do like
• 31:08
  that flash look. I know it's kind of getting more
• 31:10
  trendy again of like more of that flash feel, but I just
• 31:14
  never been a fan of it. But it it definitely it's it's
• 31:17
  an opinion of like what you want to use.
• 31:19
  But other than that, they'll like.
• 31:21
  That is one thing that we have done in the past.
• 31:24
  Yeah, and this is one instance where you you want to put your
• 31:27
  face into the light, right? Like we were talking earlier
• 31:30
  about like not wanting to look directly into the sun when it's,
• 31:32
  you know, it's certain positions.
• 31:33
  But like at the night time, if you find a lamp or you find the
• 31:37
  light, you want to put your put your face directly towards the
• 31:40
  light. Now the other thing you may have
• 31:42
  to be aware of is if I'm selfie moding here and I've got it up
• 31:45
  here, I can't block the light from my face.
• 31:48
  I got a find. Be a little creative off to the
• 31:50
  side. Find the angle, right?
• 31:53
  We talked about that already. Find the angle so that you're
• 31:55
  not putting yourself in shadow after you already went through
• 31:58
  the trouble of finding the loops.
• 32:01
  Or you get one of those fun small ring lights that connects
• 32:04
  to your phone. That is also the easy.
• 32:07
  Way you love using you. Can get them anywhere for cheap
• 32:09
  so. And again, no one is going to
• 32:11
  care. No one is going to judge you.
• 32:13
  Just don't take your photos. Take your photos.
• 32:18
  Perfect. All right, Are we ready for #4
• 32:20
  on our list here? Absolutely.
• 32:23
  This one's, this one might be a little bit boring, but but but
• 32:26
  it's important though at the same time, like now we're going
• 32:29
  into the actual like technical side of things and that is the
• 32:33
  best settings to use in parks. Mainly I'm breaking down more on
• 32:40
  the phone or on the phone side if we want to talk about.
• 32:45
  If. We want to talk about cameras.
• 32:46
  Then obviously I could, I could give Jackie like a little like
• 32:50
  CHEAT SHEET and people could like go through like Canon and
• 32:53
  Sony's because that's what we use.
• 32:54
  But like realistically though, we're using this for like
• 32:57
  average Joe, just the normal families that are coming.
• 33:00
  Let's talk about the actual settings that you would like to
• 33:04
  use for. Real fast, like not professional
• 33:06
  but like point and shoot. You.
• 33:08
  Can even set it as auto. But those don't even have really
• 33:11
  good little lighting. So you need to have lighting.
• 33:13
  That's that's the crucial part. But yeah, OK, so real fast,
• 33:17
  obviously the best, the best part of phones is it has a
• 33:23
  really good auto technology, which has been really nice,
• 33:26
  especially now with like Apple, they're doing really well with
• 33:31
  just their auto aspect. So making sure to have the audio
• 33:34
  auto on. But if you want to kind of get a
• 33:37
  more involved with that, you really want to throw in it's
• 33:41
  called HDR, which is basically just high def revolution
• 33:45
  resolution. That's that's all that what HDR
• 33:48
  means. I think newer phones, they have
• 33:52
  different versions of that. But realistically though, if you
• 33:56
  want to kind of get it more in the professional aspect side
• 33:59
  instead of using auto, you will you can use HDR. Only thing is
• 34:03
  the caveat to that is you got to make sure it has good lighting.
• 34:07
  And so that's the difference is because like even if you do the
• 34:09
  whole like well, well Ty, I use portrait mode cool.
• 34:12
  That's that's cool if you use portrait mode, but once again,
• 34:16
  portrait mode you need to have better lighting.
• 34:18
  It does not work in low lighting and I know it.
• 34:20
  Literally yell at you. It'll.
• 34:21
  Say like. You lighting find better
• 34:23
  lighting so. It's like cool, you could use
• 34:26
  it, but you really need someone to hold a like a light or you
• 34:29
  under light and like it's like it's like that's cool.
• 34:32
  Like honestly, yeah, portrait mode is amazing and I I am like
• 34:35
  stunned for the photos that it could do, especially for like
• 34:39
  how it is and the capabilities. It's just like it's exactly what
• 34:41
  I do with my phone. And now I've personally upgraded
• 34:44
  where now it does it on on the the the video side.
• 34:47
  I'm just like, this is this is insane.
• 34:49
  And I'm getting like the same F stop as I would for my camera,
• 34:53
  like my, you know, my $3000 camera.
• 34:55
  I'm getting the same thing on my phone.
• 34:56
  I'm just like, this is this is wild.
• 34:58
  But anyways, definitely HDR if you want to do that, that's cool
• 35:04
  auto. But if you put on auto,
• 35:06
  obviously it helps balance the bright skies, the even the dark
• 35:09
  rides, even the shaded faces some.
• 35:11
  Kind of adds pop to you so you're not as flat.
• 35:15
  So but then the next tip on that of the settings is live photos
• 35:21
  or motion photo is on. Sarah is the queen bee of this.
• 35:27
  She absolutely loves having the live photo on.
• 35:32
  And basically if anybody doesn't know what that is, I'm sure
• 35:35
  everybody does. But if nobody knows what that
• 35:37
  means, that basically means is when you take a photo, it it
• 35:40
  like records like the, like the, like the three seconds of the
• 35:46
  setup. And what you could do though, is
• 35:49
  you could play back those 3 seconds and pick the frame that
• 35:54
  you want to use and save it as a photo.
• 35:57
  And so now not only you took a photo, but if you don't like it
• 36:01
  or maybe like you accidentally got your eyes blinked, you can
• 36:03
  literally go the next frame over and you can actually take that
• 36:09
  photo part. And so now you're you're
• 36:11
  basically getting double, double to work on that and.
• 36:14
  You can also save the cute little video that it makes and
• 36:17
  it's adorable, but you never miss a moment, especially with
• 36:21
  kids or if you're like you blink and you're like, Oh no, but I
• 36:25
  really like that spot. You go back, you're like, oh,
• 36:27
  never mind, I'm good. I am very like, please have your
• 36:31
  live emotion photos on because you especially if you don't like
• 36:35
  being in front of the camera and it's a moment where you're like,
• 36:37
  oh, let this let this be over with.
• 36:39
  I guarantee you in somewhere you're looking at the camera
• 36:41
  smiling like we got the front row.
• 36:44
  I will warn you though, if you're someone who struggles
• 36:46
  with space on your phone, my photos do take up a lot more
• 36:50
  space, so be sure to go back through and.
• 36:55
  That's very true but I live with it on so I deal with like clean
• 36:59
  up my phone but. But just be warned that they
• 37:02
  will take up extra space. So like, if you're someone on
• 37:05
  and you're on your trip, right? And you, you want to make sure
• 37:08
  you have enough space for all of the memories.
• 37:11
  Just be aware of that as you're taking your live photos.
• 37:14
  I agree. Leave it on.
• 37:16
  Yeah, just be prepare your space, not your storage for all
• 37:20
  eyes photos. I am very known to Ty and I will
• 37:25
  be on like the sky liner. We're like all right, time to
• 37:27
  back up all of our stuff. We can erase it all.
• 37:30
  So we have unlimited space to capture things.
• 37:33
  So yes, definitely make sure everything's backed up because
• 37:36
  it does take up room, but you'll never miss a moment, which is
• 37:39
  key. But then obviously the next one,
• 37:42
  young millennial self, like as who I am.
• 37:45
  Obviously it's we used to call boomerangs.
• 37:47
  But the burst modes. These are really fun to have fun
• 37:51
  little burst moments. One of her friends love doing
• 37:54
  like the cheering, like she loves like, like cheer like,
• 37:59
  yeah, but but a great moments for those are like the parades,
• 38:04
  fireworks, even the fireworks reaction of your kiddos or just
• 38:08
  your significant other or whoever.
• 38:09
  That's what you are. Just maybe yourself.
• 38:11
  Like it's absolutely amazing. And also ride photos.
• 38:15
  Those are really fun, especially when you're like maybe like on
• 38:17
  Tron doing the launch off or, or you're like me.
• 38:21
  Oh, you can't have the phone on there.
• 38:22
  I was like me on the flight of passage.
• 38:27
  That was morning. You remember that day?
• 38:29
  For those of you that don't know, I went to Animal Kingdom
• 38:34
  on my last solo trip with Sarah and Ty and took Ty on Flight of
• 38:37
  Passage for the first time and it was better than watching my
• 38:41
  kids on that ride that first time because he was just like
• 38:45
  every every everything that happened was like.
• 38:47
  Oh, oh, oh. Look at that.
• 38:49
  Oh my gosh, it was great. It was, it was like it was
• 38:53
  perfect. He is terrified of heights.
• 38:56
  And so we're both Jagger. Like, I'll just look down.
• 38:58
  Oh, I don't like that. I don't like that.
• 39:02
  Yeah, it was, It was good. But those moments though are
• 39:05
  amazing. It's a weird, the only way to
• 39:09
  describe a burst mode is it goes forward for like 2 or 3 seconds
• 39:13
  and it goes and then it like reverses back.
• 39:16
  So it just it's a fun little video like moments.
• 39:19
  It's not really like technically photos, but it it does.
• 39:23
  But you still save a frame and like a lot of people tend to do
• 39:27
  that. Another thing that like Sarah or
• 39:30
  like this, these are good moments for like, I guess
• 39:33
  movement photos because Sarah and I will use this a lot where
• 39:38
  like we'll like put it up on a tripod or a trash can or just on
• 39:42
  our book bag. And this will be a good moment
• 39:44
  where like I spin on on Main Street or, you know, or we do a
• 39:48
  little like, you know, dip in or dip out type of thing.
• 39:51
  Like it's really fun to have more of those like creative
• 39:53
  moments. But we will take the frames of a
• 39:56
  photo that we like and we'll, you know, save it.
• 39:59
  And so there are there is still technically photos, but at the
• 40:02
  same time though it does save more as a video, but it is a
• 40:06
  just a. More funzy, creative way of
• 40:08
  getting more of the movement style photos that you want to
• 40:13
  take. Yeah, I love that.
• 40:14
  I will just say though, be sure that if you're doing things on
• 40:18
  rides that you are kind and courteous to the people around
• 40:22
  you. Please do not use your flash
• 40:24
  where you shouldn't. You know all those good things
• 40:27
  that I know I lovely listeners here at Mom St. would already
• 40:30
  think of, but just a little reminder that you want to be
• 40:33
  courteous to everyone that is around you.
• 40:35
  And that includes things like fireworks too, right?
• 40:37
  Nobody wants the bright, a bright flash in their face when
• 40:41
  you're trying to take pictures of the fireworks.
• 40:43
  So just be aware of what your flash is doing.
• 40:46
  Maybe make sure that you know where that setting is because
• 40:50
  often times a lot of our phones are just on auto for the flash
• 40:54
  so just be aware. Yeah.
• 40:56
  I've never, I've never like my thing is, is I've never, I never
• 41:01
  understand why people. This is why I I don't know why
• 41:04
  This is why I like I'm so despise flash.
• 41:10
  I don't it's hard to say it in a like a nicer way, but like he
• 41:15
  gets really when somebody takes a video and they have their
• 41:18
  flash on, like you're reducing your quality of because it's
• 41:23
  dark and dim in a way. So it's like you're not able to
• 41:25
  see you the video or whatever trying to do especially.
• 41:27
  I don't know, I just it gets, I get so annoyed by it and like
• 41:32
  just like what are you doing when?
• 41:35
  People don't I. Know, but like when you're
• 41:37
  people behind me taking of a flash of video, I'm just like
• 41:41
  really like are you? Well, and especially because,
• 41:44
  and we're not going to get too much into, you know, editing and
• 41:47
  I know we're going to talk about that a little bit here in a
• 41:49
  moment, but there are so many just auto edit options on phones
• 41:55
  that will fix everything that you think you're trying to fix
• 41:58
  by using the flash. Yes, so like.
• 42:00
  It's just unnecessary and you're going to get, like you said, I
• 42:03
  was so much of A better quality to if you don't use Flash and
• 42:07
  then you go in and just do a couple little tiny edits, it's
• 42:10
  going to turn out way better for you.
• 42:12
  Yes. And which I mean which is a
• 42:13
  great transition. So the next converse or the next
• 42:16
  and final tip of of that is your post work on your photos.
• 42:22
  Obviously we're not telling you right now to go sign up for
• 42:25
  Adobe and do Photoshop. And like, we're not.
• 42:27
  We're not doing. I'm doing it.
• 42:29
  It'll be overwhelming, I promise you.
• 42:31
  Don't do it. It's more like I said, this is
• 42:35
  for average just anybody that has a phone, you could easily do
• 42:38
  this on your camera, on your even your camera app.
• 42:42
  Now it's, I mean, like, I mean, even Apple is not coming out
• 42:45
  where you're able to remove things, but we're going to,
• 42:47
  we're going to kind of go through some like just easy
• 42:50
  things to enhance your photo for a just better quality.
• 42:54
  Like photo. Especially number one is, is if
• 42:57
  you are because like I said, it's kind of like a full circle
• 43:01
  moment. The first tip was composition
• 43:04
  and framing. One of those things that I'm
• 43:06
  talking about with composition and framing is making sure you
• 43:08
  know what's around you for the surroundings.
• 43:10
  So if you are in more of the like, more like main interest of
• 43:20
  like for example, like Main Street where that's like a super
• 43:22
  hot spot because obviously that's like kind of the, the
• 43:26
  heart of MK where you know, if you're trying to get a castle
• 43:30
  shot or whatever, there's hundreds of people around you.
• 43:32
  There's so much things that are happening.
• 43:34
  Obviously finding a good spot where there's not many people is
• 43:37
  the best. At the same time though, which I
• 43:39
  didn't know this until like literally 2 years ago when the
• 43:42
  photo passed, people took photos.
• 43:44
  I thought they at least took about 5 seconds and removed
• 43:47
  people behind the people. No, they just keep it.
• 43:50
  So I guarantee you I'm in hundreds of people's photos
• 43:53
  because I walked past them because I thought they at least
• 43:56
  like a very simple basic edit of people taking out.
• 44:01
  I thought, I guess, I guess Disney, why are you cheap?
• 44:05
  Why are you cheap? OK, but also also, to play
• 44:08
  devil's advocate with that, do you know how many hundreds of
• 44:11
  thousands of photos are taken across Disney property every
• 44:15
  day? Like there's absolutely no way
• 44:17
  they can even mess with them at all.
• 44:20
  What he has thought was that that day of they would take a
• 44:27
  empty shot of the castle from those angles and then they just,
• 44:31
  you know, how they can add the little magic.
• 44:33
  He's like, they don't do that. I said no.
• 44:35
  Why do you think I always smack at you when you're, you know,
• 44:39
  walking directly behind people? I was like, you're tall.
• 44:42
  You will. Now I feel really bad and you
• 44:45
  will never happen ever again. And now I'm walking on the
• 44:47
  sidewalk and like not getting past, not getting through the
• 44:51
  foot of past. People, the fun part is, is now
• 44:54
  even your regular on your phone, you can, it's not always going
• 44:58
  to be the best. Don't be wrong.
• 45:00
  Look, it's not always going to be perfect, but you can remove
• 45:03
  people or objects from your background because sometimes,
• 45:07
  like Ty said or even Jackie said, like sometimes you can't
• 45:10
  control that. There's going to be thousands of
• 45:11
  people around you, but you can kind of circle them.
• 45:15
  It's very simple to remove them which I am guilty of.
• 45:20
  Even for photo pass photos I will download them and remove
• 45:23
  people because I want it to look like it's just me and the magic
• 45:27
  Kingdom or wherever I got. Very simple to do and you can
• 45:32
  always convert it back to the original photo.
• 45:34
  If you do not like the way it looks, you don't lose the
• 45:37
  original photo which is amazing. Another quick editing thing is
• 45:44
  you can also click just auto. Even if you take a photo in
• 45:47
  auto, you can edit in auto. So that can help enhance just
• 45:52
  how you're. It's not as flat looking, which
• 45:54
  is always nice, but you can also go through the brightness,
• 45:58
  adjust light balance, contrast. All of that can help just
• 46:03
  improve of standard phone photo to just a little bit extra,
• 46:09
  which I always recommend. But if you don't have the time
• 46:12
  or want, it's not necessary. Maybe if there's a few that you
• 46:16
  want to print for yourself for like a memory book or anything
• 46:19
  like that, then that's when I'm like, okay, go through and do a
• 46:22
  little bit of an edit. Somebody add this?
• 46:24
  Are there even free edit which? Things there is you.
• 46:30
  So I use the phone version of Lightroom.
• 46:34
  You can do a free version of that, which you can do presets.
• 46:37
  You can do all of that. It's easy to learn and it is
• 46:41
  free. I do the premium because I like
• 46:43
  to do a little extra on my photos obviously, but you don't
• 46:46
  have to do that. Tezra's another one, you can do
• 46:49
  a free version. They give you different options
• 46:52
  and you can have fun with it. You could do like the disposable
• 46:55
  camera look or VHS look. Again, there's a free version
• 47:00
  and then there is you could pay a little bit to access the whole
• 47:04
  app. What's another one that's on
• 47:06
  you're? Mainly use those I mean.
• 47:08
  Also you got to understand like. Canva has some free options but
• 47:11
  you can easily remove people or just enhance things.
• 47:18
  But in general, what they have updated for cameras, for your
• 47:23
  phone in camera raw editing, it is so much better than what we
• 47:28
  had when we were younger. So if you can't afford or want
• 47:31
  to download more on your phone regular what your camera your
• 47:36
  phone gives, you can do. To which I mean, like I'll speak
• 47:39
  on the app, the iPhone side because obviously I have an
• 47:42
  iPhone. I mean, that's the reason why
• 47:43
  we're kind of talking about the worlds is because Sarah has her
• 47:46
  Android, I have an iPhone. So especially with iPhones, like
• 47:51
  even with just the settings that you have like in your actual
• 47:54
  photo app works wonders too. They are just tremendously
• 48:00
  better than one I've experienced even because I took AI jumped
• 48:05
  ships from iPhone I think when it was iPhone 5 came out and
• 48:09
  then I had a Galaxy phone up until my job like 4 years ago.
• 48:14
  They're like you need an iPhone because they did a lot of like
• 48:16
  group stuff, but that's a whole different story.
• 48:18
  But then after that, though, I've been having iPhone and now
• 48:21
  I have the latest phone, latest iPhone and they it has so many
• 48:27
  different editing that I never even thought of that they would
• 48:30
  actually like actually have now. And so like even using the dials
• 48:34
  for a little more contrast and like just messing with the
• 48:37
  shadows even or the brightness of it and stuff like it's just
• 48:40
  just adding those little like key things, just basic editing
• 48:46
  of just some sort of color correction.
• 48:48
  Even that is just truly it will just help boost the photo even
• 48:52
  more. And another thing for this is my
• 48:56
  photo side of me talking, but people on like Etsy or on
• 49:02
  private Facebook groups sell pre presets, which they're not that
• 49:08
  expensive. It's like some of them are only
• 49:09
  like 5 bucks and then it's for yours forever after that.
• 49:13
  If you have Lightroom, it's just a one click and it can enhance.
• 49:17
  And there's some of them that they make it custom for the
• 49:19
  Disney parks of like, oh, it is like harsh photos.
• 49:24
  One click. It can help solve your problems.
• 49:27
  If that is something you're interested.
• 49:29
  And I do know a lot of people on, you can just like look it up
• 49:33
  on Google. They sell presets for really
• 49:35
  cheap that can help you take a regular standard photo and just
• 49:39
  enhance it. Yeah, absolutely.
• 49:41
  Yeah. If you want either of those
• 49:42
  apps, I'll make sure to include them in the show notes.
• 49:45
  So check that out if you're listening to us later on down
• 49:48
  the road. And the good thing is with all
• 49:50
  of those, like, even if you just want to mess around and like
• 49:53
  figure it out and play with it, you can always just undo it.
• 49:56
  You're not going to cause like permanent problems to your
• 49:59
  photos. There's always an undo option.
• 50:01
  So if you want to just like mess around and see what does what or
• 50:06
  those types of things, that's that's what I've done and just
• 50:09
  kind of figured out like what looks good and what doesn't.
• 50:12
  But mostly I just use the auto edit.
• 50:14
  Like if I am taking a photo and I'm like, oh, it looks like you
• 50:17
  said, Sarah, the way you described it was perfect.
• 50:19
  It just looks a little flat. I just hit that auto and it just
• 50:22
  like just just tweaks at the tiniest bit but it looks so much
• 50:25
  better. It looks how you see it when you
• 50:29
  do a little bit extra, you're like, oh, that's how I remember
• 50:31
  it. Not as flat the camera gives
• 50:33
  you. And then another thing which is
• 50:35
  nice is you can copy your settings and mass post them.
• 50:41
  If it's like an auto like for Lightroom, I can copy my
• 50:44
  settings, save my setting, drop it out all my photos, don't have
• 50:47
  to think about it, export and I'm done.
• 50:49
  It saves so much time. But yeah, auto settings on your
• 50:54
  basic on your phone can do wonders.
• 50:58
  And if you guys need help with settings or like want more on
• 51:01
  that just send me a message I can put you in contact with
• 51:04
  Sarah and Ty. They know what to tell you for
• 51:07
  what I have asked Ty. Hey, what should I set my camera
• 51:10
  at for the videos and stuff that I want to take?
• 51:13
  So like, literally, I know. And compliments on your live
• 51:16
  stream too. It's good this stone is always
• 51:21
  willing to help even if it's a quick like hey I am trying to
• 51:25
  remove this from the background and it's not working.
• 51:28
  I like, I understand the frustration, but I do it for a
• 51:32
  living so. Like, which is it's fun because
• 51:37
  for her, she's obviously the photography side.
• 51:39
  And I do, I mean, we do I actually 100% of my work, I do
• 51:42
  video only. But it's, I mean, it's, it's
• 51:45
  both of both worlds, right? So it definitely is like for
• 51:49
  even for me, like when I take a photo, like even for ourselves,
• 51:54
  like when we take photos at the parks and stuff, I immediately
• 51:57
  jump in and like, you know, crush a little bit more of the
• 51:59
  blacks. Because obviously when it's
• 52:02
  super sunny outside it you're, you're, you know, you're the
• 52:04
  colors of just even in your photos and stuff, it gets
• 52:08
  crushed by the sunlight. And so you just bring it back
• 52:10
  the color tones and stuff and just knowing the basics of that.
• 52:13
  I mean, which obviously we did go to school for that.
• 52:15
  So like we just in the back of our memory, we, we, we do that
• 52:18
  just second nature now. But realistically, like if your
• 52:22
  photo like, yeah, it's like auto is pretty good with it.
• 52:26
  But just make sure though like once again it goes back to
• 52:31
  lighting like it's better to do an auto like correction when the
• 52:36
  lighting is as best in that situation.
• 52:40
  If you if it's overly exposed or even underexposed, especially
• 52:44
  with the underexposed photos, if you click auto, it's going to
• 52:48
  boost the brightness up, which if you have more of of paler
• 52:54
  skin, it will make you look like a light bulb.
• 52:58
  So like, I just want to let you know, like it's just you got to
• 53:02
  be careful with the auto aspect of it.
• 53:05
  So like you may want to do that manually if you're in more of
• 53:08
  like an overexposed area. But if error, I'm sorry, when
• 53:11
  it's underexposed, you want to make sure you expose your
• 53:14
  properly manually because that can happen.
• 53:18
  And so just throw on that out. The biggest like no one told you
• 53:24
  this, but if the photo if you really like it and you cannot
• 53:27
  get the auto lighting setting looking good, the easiest trick
• 53:31
  is turn it black and white. It's gonna always look good.
• 53:33
  That is the easiest. I love that I'm gonna be real.
• 53:38
  Honest with you, if somebody is doesn't give you a photo in
• 53:41
  color it's and they like the photo, it's because they
• 53:44
  couldn't make it work so they turned it into black and white.
• 53:46
  Yep. That's something.
• 53:48
  But it's not a creative. Choice but right?
• 53:50
  There were some photos where I'm like OOP, I like this moment
• 53:53
  with, you know, with even my my niece and nephew.
• 53:56
  But I cannot. It's like the auto is just not
• 53:58
  working or I can't fix it. The colors are whale.
• 54:01
  Are the colors whale black and white?
• 54:02
  I'm like what a great memory that was Steve.
• 54:05
  So little little tip for. You, we do that all I love,
• 54:10
  Sadly. I mean, you really can't do that
• 54:11
  with a video, though. No, you're like, why is this
• 54:13
  video black and white? What are you seeing, dear?
• 54:15
  No, I don't know how it feels kind of messed up.
• 54:18
  Yeah. I wanted you to feel the the
• 54:21
  nostalgic feel like. An yeah, it's, it's film noir.
• 54:25
  It's it's very sophisticated. My art.
• 54:28
  Situation. I love this.
• 54:31
  Well, so I think that's kind of the end of our five tips 5 plus.
• 54:36
  I feel like we kind of expanded a lot of those, which is perfect
• 54:39
  give all the tips we can. But I want to jump to now
• 54:42
  talking about a few of our hidden or maybe just favorite
• 54:46
  photo spots in the parks. So I let's start at Epcot.
• 54:53
  One of the ones that I picked out on this list here is if you
• 54:57
  are in the International Gateway area, the entrance, literally
• 55:02
  right after you walk through those gates, if you are like
• 55:05
  looking to the right where the water comes through.
• 55:08
  I love that spot. I don't know what it is, but
• 55:11
  especially during Flower and Garden, they've got all the
• 55:13
  really bright colors there. I have taken so many videos.
• 55:17
  They're just like random B rollers.
• 55:19
  Also usually ducks there. So like Disney ducks that yeah,
• 55:23
  you're good to go with that. So that's one of my spots at
• 55:26
  Epcot that is kind of hidden. But again, this is just there
• 55:29
  are so many spots in the parks, it's hard to pick, but that's
• 55:31
  the one that that comes to mind when I think of Epcot for me.
• 55:35
  Yes, this is the hardest part for me when especially when it
• 55:39
  comes to Epcot because if you just like exit the main part
• 55:45
  like the outskirts of the Why am I blanking on word no on the
• 55:52
  World showcase? I could not think of that for
• 55:54
  like if you just like. Go.
• 55:56
  Into each area you're going to find a beautiful location.
• 56:00
  Like even if you want to just do I do, I'm so guilty of it.
• 56:04
  I just do architecture photos, like close up, so pretty.
• 56:07
  But I've seen families that walk in not even with folk, but like
• 56:11
  they just go to an empty corner and they're in like Rome and
• 56:14
  it's just you will always find a spot off of the main strip where
• 56:19
  you're walking past them. If you just jump in there,
• 56:22
  you're going to find a beautiful, beautiful location.
• 56:25
  And then another little tip is especially with like, you know,
• 56:31
  I read the little, the beauty, the ball, you know, just go on a
• 56:36
  different side of where the photo passes, like to the side
• 56:40
  of it. Cuz you can get a good angle
• 56:41
  anywhere if you want the iconic photo, but it's out of the way
• 56:45
  from everybody. Always a good shot.
• 56:47
  I every time I go to Epcot, I have a photo zoomed in of the
• 56:52
  beauty herself. She's in the change, but I'm
• 56:54
  like. So many, so many photos of
• 56:58
  Spaceship Earth on my phone for absolutely no reason other than
• 57:02
  I just, I take, I take them every single time, daytime and
• 57:05
  nighttime, every time I visit Epcot.
• 57:08
  Yes, it's just an automatic like look the beauty and it's just.
• 57:13
  Yeah, I. I mean for me, like, I mean you
• 57:15
  pick any country in Epcot and it's perfect.
• 57:18
  And like for us, like the last time we were there, we were just
• 57:21
  finding just some just nook and cranny like spots that there
• 57:24
  was, there was like 0 like literally like 0 to like little
• 57:27
  to no people at all in these areas.
• 57:30
  And it we were just getting just banger shot after banger shot at
• 57:34
  just these beautiful just shots. And and especially for architect
• 57:38
  there, like it just looks like you're there.
• 57:41
  I mean, I have like hundreds of photos in my phone just from
• 57:44
  like the things that we capture. But like, honestly, I'm kind of
• 57:48
  with you like the even the outskirts, but even taking up
• 57:52
  step further, like the side where you could go through the
• 57:58
  actual boardwalk. Like I know it's exactly not an
• 58:01
  Epcot, but it's tank, but I'm considering an Epcot.
• 58:04
  That area is like also great to do, but kind of a sneaky fun one
• 58:10
  is actually going on the sky liner and just taking taking it
• 58:14
  like a quick lap. Like obviously it's free to use,
• 58:17
  but like you get your own. You get your own like cart where
• 58:21
  I like we use that for like some fun like funsie just.
• 58:26
  Like. Like photos and stuff like that.
• 58:28
  Obviously, yeah, I'm not telling you to like hang off and do
• 58:30
  whatever, but like, but it's definitely though like it is a
• 58:34
  good spot where you you have just yourself where you're able
• 58:38
  to get some really cool photos like in there as well.
• 58:41
  But I mean, we, we do that all the time.
• 58:44
  Yeah, I think the sky liner is a fun one to also have in the
• 58:47
  background of your photos. And I have videos too.
• 58:49
  So like, I like the walkway that leads you back to where Remy is
• 58:53
  in France. But there's like a little
• 58:55
  seating area kind of right after you get to like where the
• 58:58
  building is. And I have I have this amazing
• 59:01
  photo of my daughter who she had on these just massive purple
• 59:06
  sparkly ears. And she's sitting at the table
• 59:08
  like this. And it's like her in the front
• 59:11
  and the sky liner in the back. And it's just, it's like, I love
• 59:14
  that photo so much, but I think the the sky liner in the
• 59:17
  background is, is a fun one too, if you're on that that side of
• 59:20
  the park. It also helps you in general,
• 59:24
  like it's, I understand if you have, again, we don't have
• 59:27
  children, so there's a different outlook of having kids and not
• 59:30
  having kids. But if you ever get to go where
• 59:33
  it's not overwhelming, you get to just look at the little
• 59:36
  details. Like when you're walking over
• 59:38
  the bridge there for to get into Paris, there's the little bike
• 59:43
  with like paintings on it. Like there's so many little
• 59:45
  details that Epcot does so beautifully that I like to like
• 59:49
  I've noticed more compared to you're just walking and you're
• 59:53
  like, oh, you know, here's the Eiffel Tower, here's this.
• 59:57
  So just like it helps you be creative and have fun.
• 1:00:03
  Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I agree.
• 1:00:05
  All right. Shall we move on to what I know
• 1:00:07
  is your favorite Park Hollywood Studios?
• 1:00:11
  Tell us where you like, because there's so many spots here.
• 1:00:14
  But give us, give us. A it's all the nuts.
• 1:00:17
  I mean, like, I mean, you're going to I'm very biased of
• 1:00:20
  these parks. Obviously one of my favorite is
• 1:00:22
  the Hollywood studios, but then at the same time, MK is another
• 1:00:25
  one. But first thing though,
• 1:00:26
  Hollywood studios, you get all the cool vibes of it all.
• 1:00:29
  I mean, once again, to be it could be completely frank, any
• 1:00:34
  corner, any angle if you're going to get great shots.
• 1:00:37
  But realistically though, like there's some really fun ones.
• 1:00:40
  You have the actual, I don't know what the actual Rd. is
• 1:00:45
  called, but I guess it's their Main Street version of it, But
• 1:00:48
  it's Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood Blvd.
• 1:00:50
  That's what it is. So basically where the Tower of
• 1:00:52
  Terror is? That's Sunset Blvd.
• 1:00:57
  Yeah, there it is, Hollywood. Remain on Sunset is the side.
• 1:01:00
  One, so once again, just a kind of a side note to everybody, we
• 1:01:03
  just moved down here to Florida and we just have our annual
• 1:01:05
  passes and we're just fairly newer to it.
• 1:01:08
  So we're very, we're getting more involved with the.
• 1:01:11
  Names are hard. They are hard.
• 1:01:14
  And they're not like the ones like Main Street, you know,
• 1:01:17
  right? But like the ones in Hollywood,
• 1:01:18
  studios are not as often used, so I will give you that.
• 1:01:25
  But other than that, definitely having that tire terrier.
• 1:01:30
  Obviously it's iconic and in actual studios around it's it's
• 1:01:34
  fun to get. Obviously I love Star Wars, so
• 1:01:38
  you definitely have some really fun moments with 1,000,000.
• 1:01:41
  Falcon obviously doesn't be right in the center of it.
• 1:01:43
  Normally I would tell people to go in the back end on the right
• 1:01:46
  hand side, but because they are doing so much construction now,
• 1:01:50
  I think they put a character meet up over there.
• 1:01:52
  Vodka is there now. And so it's kind of a no go over
• 1:01:55
  there now, but you go up the stairs in front of the Million
• 1:02:00
  Falcon, there's like a little seating on the left hand side.
• 1:02:03
  You get a really cool shot of the entirety of 1,000,000
• 1:02:07
  Falcon. At the same time, there's like
• 1:02:09
  no one normally there, which is also really good for for that
• 1:02:15
  that. Would be like near the entrance
• 1:02:17
  to. Oh gosh and the quick service
• 1:02:20
  name just totally escaped me. Doc eBay 7 absolutely right
• 1:02:25
  across the entrance from. There, I was going to trust you.
• 1:02:27
  You could have said anything there and I would have been
• 1:02:29
  like, Nope, I I, I messed up Sunset Blvd.
• 1:02:33
  I didn't even remotely try what that was called.
• 1:02:37
  So I was going to be like, Yep, that's what it is, Yeah.
• 1:02:40
  Yeah, I it took me a second to figure that one out.
• 1:02:42
  But yes, that's fun when you can get a different angle or
• 1:02:47
  different view of the same old thing that everyone takes a
• 1:02:50
  photo of, but a different look at it.
• 1:02:53
  You could also get, you know, yourself, your family, anybody
• 1:02:57
  against that railing and you could still see the Millennium
• 1:03:00
  Falcon in yourself. So, which is also a beautiful.
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  Little. Yeah.
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  Absolutely. Yeah, I love that.
• 1:03:09
  And I would I will say that one of my favorite things that they
• 1:03:11
  do and this is not like a unique one, but like the nighttime
• 1:03:14
  lightsaber photos that they do are amazing.
• 1:03:18
  And I will say, I don't think enough people know that there
• 1:03:22
  are photo pass people that have lightsabers that you can use.
• 1:03:26
  So if you're not someone who has splurge to buy one or you, you
• 1:03:30
  don't want to have your kiddo carrying theirs in the park or
• 1:03:32
  whatever it may be. There are specific photo pass
• 1:03:37
  people that are. They're typically across the
• 1:03:40
  way. They're either at the Millennium
• 1:03:41
  Falcon or they are down towards the Milk stand across from Ogas.
• 1:03:46
  There's like a little doorway that they like to do those into,
• 1:03:49
  but they have at least two different lightsabers that you
• 1:03:53
  can borrow for your photos. So hunt them out and just ask
• 1:03:57
  them again. You got it.
• 1:03:59
  You got to get out of your shell and ask.
• 1:04:00
  I know we talked about this earlier.
• 1:04:02
  It's not always the easiest thing to do, but you just got to
• 1:04:05
  ask them because they typically have them that you can use.
• 1:04:08
  And we did this with my daughter when she was when she was too
• 1:04:13
  short to ride Rise of the Resistance and my son and my
• 1:04:17
  husband were off riding and I opted out.
• 1:04:20
  I opted to stay with her and we walked through the marketplace.
• 1:04:23
  She bought a loaf cat stuffy and then went and had a light Saber
• 1:04:28
  photo shoot with her loaf cat. And it was like very cool. 10
• 1:04:32
  out of 10. Amazing.
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  So even though it's not a hidden one, I think enough people, a
• 1:04:37
  lot of people don't know that they actually have light sabers
• 1:04:39
  that you can borrow. Which yes, that is a big thing
• 1:04:42
  because a lot of people think, oh, I need to have because
• 1:04:45
  usually you walk past and people are already holding the
• 1:04:48
  lightsabers. Right.
• 1:04:49
  Yeah, you don't have to have them to go have fun photos with
• 1:04:52
  lightsabers and and it. And it makes a good point that
• 1:04:55
  they do stop them at a certain time.
• 1:04:57
  It's not an all night thing. So you got to kind of once it
• 1:05:00
  hits dark, you got to start scoping out and you got to kind
• 1:05:03
  of hang tight until they come out and make sure that you jump
• 1:05:05
  in line because the lines get long and they don't do them all
• 1:05:08
  night. But I and I just think there's,
• 1:05:10
  you know, Hollywood, the studios is such a great park at night.
• 1:05:13
  But I think so many of the things that we've talked about
• 1:05:16
  with like the exposure and stuff are, is so crucial here because
• 1:05:20
  of the neon lights, because of everything that they've got
• 1:05:23
  going on that give it such a great nighttime vibe.
• 1:05:26
  You got you got to kind of be aware of what your settings look
• 1:05:29
  like before you jump into those photos.
• 1:05:32
  And another little tidbit, if you one, if you go during the
• 1:05:36
  summer when it's the busiest, most of the time, Fantasmic has
• 1:05:39
  two shows, right? The most of the time, people
• 1:05:43
  with younger kids or they've been there all day, try to go to
• 1:05:46
  the first show. If they cannot make it to the
• 1:05:48
  next show during that time, it's prime photo time.
• 1:05:52
  Toy Story at night or at sunset, Amazing.
• 1:05:56
  All the lights are lit up, obviously the main streets with
• 1:06:00
  all of the neon signs, Millennium like Star Wars,
• 1:06:04
  Galaxy Edge, all those. It is usually people are trying
• 1:06:08
  to get to the first show and get out of the park.
• 1:06:11
  Don't blame them. But if you can go run around and
• 1:06:14
  have some fun taking some photos, the Hollywood Studios is
• 1:06:18
  one of the best parks to take the nighttime photos because
• 1:06:22
  it's made to look like you're in Hollywood.
• 1:06:25
  So. Yeah, yes.
• 1:06:27
  And I will say they for sure Hollywood Studios and I know it,
• 1:06:30
  Epcot oftentimes along their main walkways will have lights
• 1:06:35
  that are meant to help illuminate like the sidewalks
• 1:06:38
  and stuff, but you can sometimes use those for your photos.
• 1:06:42
  So there are some I know that are like back from the Chinese
• 1:06:45
  Theater along Hollywood Blvd. that you can kind of, if you, if
• 1:06:50
  you, you know, structure your photo correctly, you can use the
• 1:06:54
  light from those lanterns that they already have that are like
• 1:06:58
  a little bit lower to the ground and you can get the good, some
• 1:07:02
  good shots from there too. They do that.
• 1:07:03
  I know for sure out out front of we were just talking about
• 1:07:06
  Epcot, but out front of Spaceship Earth.
• 1:07:08
  They have a lot of those lanterns to where they
• 1:07:10
  illuminate the planters and the sidewalks and stuff.
• 1:07:13
  But you can use them for your selfies.
• 1:07:15
  Nice. How's it?
• 1:07:17
  Look. Love it.
• 1:07:18
  All right, let's talk about animal Kingdom.
• 1:07:21
  One of these is mine because I love, I love animal Kingdom
• 1:07:27
  photos. I think there's a lot of fun
• 1:07:29
  little hidden places, but one of my favorite ones is actually if
• 1:07:33
  you want the tree of life, I highly suggest going around to
• 1:07:36
  the backside of the tree of life.
• 1:07:38
  So the main walkway that takes you kind of between where like
• 1:07:41
  the feathered friends and flight show is and the Harambe Market,
• 1:07:44
  Tammu Tammu area. If you know where that is kind
• 1:07:47
  of on the map, basically the backside of the tree of life.
• 1:07:50
  There are some really fun photo spots back there, whether it's
• 1:07:55
  for like aesthetic photos that you're taking or videos or
• 1:07:59
  things like that, or like family photos.
• 1:08:02
  There's often a photo pass photographer back on that side
• 1:08:05
  too, which is really convenient and helpful to have.
• 1:08:08
  But it's a little bit more removed of a photo of the tree
• 1:08:11
  of life. And there is no possible way for
• 1:08:14
  people to be in the background of your photo because you're
• 1:08:18
  taking it over the water and then the tree of life is right
• 1:08:22
  there. So if you want to get the Tree
• 1:08:25
  of Life photo without having people behind you, that is my
• 1:08:28
  suggestion for that one. Absolutely.
• 1:08:32
  And then the other one that I like that's a little bit more
• 1:08:34
  kind of scenic. It doesn't necessarily feel like
• 1:08:38
  theme park, but Animal Kingdom is kind of that way when it
• 1:08:41
  comes to photos is. And there is a great walkway
• 1:08:44
  between the Festival of The Lion King building and the backside
• 1:08:48
  of Pandora. It's like this boardwalky
• 1:08:50
  looking kind of walkway and there's a bunch of of like
• 1:08:53
  vegetation and and pretty plants and scenery and water right
• 1:08:57
  there. I like that place too to take
• 1:08:59
  for taking photos. So, and then pretty much
• 1:09:02
  anywhere in Pandora, especially if you are fortunate enough to
• 1:09:06
  visit Pandora during the winter when it gets light or sorry,
• 1:09:10
  when it the light goes away and it gets dark early enough so
• 1:09:13
  that you can catch some of the illuminated walkways and things
• 1:09:17
  in Pandora. That's always a good one.
• 1:09:20
  But again, you got to pay attention to those night time
• 1:09:23
  exposure settings because otherwise you will miss out on
• 1:09:26
  the magic that is Pandora at night.
• 1:09:29
  Yes. And then one of my favorite
• 1:09:31
  places, it's on the right next to the Harambe market where you
• 1:09:37
  can go eat, though not. Yeah, around the other.
• 1:09:41
  Yeah, it's the little Mickey Mouse and then it has the little
• 1:09:46
  bike. That's just a cute little photo
• 1:09:49
  place that I actually went there the first time to take a photo
• 1:09:53
  for my birthday and I was like, this is adorable.
• 1:09:56
  And it's like 3. There was like other people like
• 1:09:58
  waiting in line and like there's no line, but it's just like the
• 1:10:01
  patient of like it's against a wall.
• 1:10:03
  There's nobody going to be in your photo and it's just a cute
• 1:10:06
  little nod of. We really realized because like
• 1:10:09
  Animal Kingdom is one of those parks have, we rarely kind of go
• 1:10:13
  to unless there's like a reason to go there.
• 1:10:16
  And every single time we've gone there, we had a reason to go.
• 1:10:20
  And, and the one thing that I've noticed is there's a lot of like
• 1:10:24
  murals on the architect that are really fun to take photos of.
• 1:10:28
  So those are like those moments that are really fun to like
• 1:10:32
  really captivate that are just unique and different than just a
• 1:10:36
  typical like for your life and like, you know, just a little
• 1:10:39
  more IP spots like, you know, it's more like you could find
• 1:10:44
  those like little hidden gems for, you know, your photos and
• 1:10:48
  stuff. And that's what we did
• 1:10:49
  especially that's like especially the little Mickey
• 1:10:52
  with like there was like it was like a bike literally coming out
• 1:10:54
  of the like the wall. Yeah, yeah, and it was it was
• 1:10:56
  really cool. And it's just like, you know,
• 1:10:58
  something that you just don't really get to see, you know,
• 1:11:00
  anywhere else. And so that's what we we try to
• 1:11:02
  do definitely for please going and I'm looking Kingdom so.
• 1:11:07
  Yeah, Animal Kingdom definitely. In the photos, it doesn't give
• 1:11:10
  you the theme park vibe, right? Now, there are some places that.
• 1:11:13
  Do if you're over by expedition Everest, you can get the
• 1:11:16
  mountain with the, you know, the car coming out in the background
• 1:11:18
  and things like that. But so much of the architecture,
• 1:11:21
  you know, purposely is meant to feel like you're not in a theme
• 1:11:24
  park. So I think that's.
• 1:11:26
  Most of my photos and videos in Animal Kingdom is from the
• 1:11:30
  Safari. Like that's just like, I don't
• 1:11:32
  think about it, but I'm like, that's very hard to take like a
• 1:11:36
  selfie with family. Like I don't think about that.
• 1:11:39
  I'm taking photos with animals the entire time.
• 1:11:42
  So I was like, I don't know how to properly because you don't
• 1:11:45
  want, you cannot stand and you don't want to be a distraction
• 1:11:49
  to the animals on that ride. So if you want to ever take a
• 1:11:53
  photo, I like of like I went on this ride, when you exit, you
• 1:11:58
  can see the vehicles parked. Take a photo there like I've
• 1:12:01
  taken on the exit. I asked a cast member, I'm like,
• 1:12:04
  could I get a photo with like you're on the ramp?
• 1:12:07
  But they're like, yeah, go ahead because you're out of the way.
• 1:12:09
  You can be like, I just take a safari ride, but I would really
• 1:12:13
  not try to do any of anything like that on the ride because
• 1:12:17
  you don't want to distract the animals or the driver.
• 1:12:19
  Yeah, the the attractions currently at Animal Kingdom.
• 1:12:22
  Now, granted, there's a ton of construction going on over there
• 1:12:25
  and I'm so excited for Tropical Americas to open in a few years,
• 1:12:28
  but the the rides and the attractions at at Animal Kingdom
• 1:12:33
  are not great for photos. They're either really dark or
• 1:12:38
  moving a lot like, you know, the safari or like expedition versus
• 1:12:42
  a roller coaster. So, you know, you definitely
• 1:12:44
  need to kind of find some of those hidden spaces at Animal
• 1:12:48
  Kingdom. Absolutely.
• 1:12:50
  Yes. Perfect.
• 1:12:51
  All right. And then I'm rounding out our
• 1:12:53
  list here. Magic Kingdom.
• 1:12:54
  I feel like again, there are so many spots of Magic Kingdom.
• 1:13:00
  Well, well, I'm gonna kind of like breakdown once again,
• 1:13:02
  creative like spots because obviously you have the castle,
• 1:13:05
  you have, you know, your, your IPS areas and stuff.
• 1:13:08
  One of my favorite little tidbits is, I mean, I'm bringing
• 1:13:13
  up another platform, so I apologize, but like if you
• 1:13:15
  Google, like if you use Etsy and just look up Etsy, have you used
• 1:13:19
  Pinterest and look up family portraits in Disney?
• 1:13:22
  They can show you like, oh, you want a castle photo?
• 1:13:26
  You know, where those, oh, my gosh, the little statues that
• 1:13:32
  they kept from the 50th, they're further back.
• 1:13:34
  Take your photo there. You get the whole castle.
• 1:13:37
  You can kind of the people kind of blur in the in the greenery.
• 1:13:41
  And it's a beautiful location. Usually.
• 1:13:43
  Like I said, my first time ever going, I ran straight to the
• 1:13:46
  front, which it's fine, right? But you're angling upward
• 1:13:50
  instead of straight eye, which is more of a flattering angle.
• 1:13:54
  Yeah, and it's not as crowded or overwhelming because a lot of
• 1:13:57
  people run straightforward where the castle can be beautiful from
• 1:14:02
  any, any angle. Yeah.
• 1:14:05
  But the fun ones that we always do like in magic English to make
• 1:14:10
  something that's unique and different than anybody else's
• 1:14:13
  photos, which they might be also like everybody's taste as well.
• 1:14:16
  So this might be it depends on everybody's stays on what I'm
• 1:14:20
  about to say. But so we love to do like fun
• 1:14:23
  angles like on Main Street where we utilize like the windows
• 1:14:28
  storefronts of like certain spots where you're shooting more
• 1:14:32
  of like a like a 40 to 5° angle or like the profile of the
• 1:14:36
  person that you have with you or just whatever you're trying to
• 1:14:39
  shoot. We, we like to you, you utilize
• 1:14:42
  like the windows in the actual storefronts of like whatever it
• 1:14:46
  is. So you know, we, we do that.
• 1:14:50
  And then also there's even like shots that we've done.
• 1:14:53
  I would, I would love to be able to show everybody, but like I've
• 1:14:56
  even done like things where we've asked like the person
• 1:14:59
  who's holding the balloons to like hold them down a little
• 1:15:01
  bit. And I actually got a photo of
• 1:15:04
  Sarah, like with the balloons behind her of the surroundings.
• 1:15:07
  And you're like I said, you just have to ask.
• 1:15:09
  They're willing to do it. I didn't ask.
• 1:15:11
  I was like, hey, can we hold the balloons?
• 1:15:12
  I was like, hey, can you like bring them down a little bit?
• 1:15:14
  So that's what we could like kind.
• 1:15:16
  Of hold, they won't let you hold the whole, they still have to
• 1:15:18
  hold them, but they they are used to being asked that,
• 1:15:20
  especially the balloon holders are used to that, yeah.
• 1:15:23
  But but then also we've been done where where there's a
• 1:15:27
  really fun frames where we go inside the actual shops and it's
• 1:15:31
  the huge walls of like Mickey Mouse and and the stuff he said
• 1:15:35
  stuff. I was like, Hey, why don't you
• 1:15:36
  grab one and act like you're like looking at the wall and
• 1:15:40
  it's just like a fun frame where it's the entire frame of just
• 1:15:43
  her, but like surrounded with the Mickey's is her holding it.
• 1:15:47
  And that's a good like in the moment, like storytelling peace
• 1:15:51
  as opposed to like, hey, I'm holding a stuffy or whatever.
• 1:15:53
  And I'm like, obviously we didn't buy it because like it's
• 1:15:55
  we're in the store, but like it's a fun moment where it
• 1:15:59
  allows you to go back to like the moments or even for her,
• 1:16:03
  she's obsessed with Stitch. There was one that was like
• 1:16:05
  super gigantic in the world of Disney and Disney Springs.
• 1:16:09
  She's holding it and and it's just like, it's just fun just
• 1:16:13
  getting those moments like in the actual, you know, park as
• 1:16:17
  well, besides just the typical like castle.
• 1:16:20
  So, and obviously, like I said, I kind of mentioned before the
• 1:16:23
  left side, like where that little underpasses.
• 1:16:26
  It's kind of a nice little sticky spot where no one really
• 1:16:29
  is there to get a good angle of the castle.
• 1:16:32
  And then honestly one of my personal favorites is taking the
• 1:16:36
  ferry boat ride and going up on the second level.
• 1:16:40
  And when you're even if you're going or leaving, you get a fun
• 1:16:44
  like just like really nice, like long white shot of just like the
• 1:16:49
  castle and just like the entirety of that area.
• 1:16:52
  And it still looks really good so.
• 1:16:54
  Yeah. And then another good one, which
• 1:16:56
  I didn't know about, was when the Cinderella, the Wishing
• 1:17:01
  Well. That's such a beautiful spot.
• 1:17:04
  If you're far enough away, you have a beautiful the you know,
• 1:17:08
  you can get from the wishing well or you can get the castle
• 1:17:11
  and you're there's nobody in the background.
• 1:17:14
  It was I was like, oh, I never knew this was here or that
• 1:17:16
  pathway. We ran into a photo pass and I'm
• 1:17:20
  like why have I never been this? Way, yeah, both of those side
• 1:17:24
  views of the castle I think are phenomenal.
• 1:17:26
  So whether you're going towards the Tomorrowland side or you're
• 1:17:29
  going towards like Liberty Square, both of those pathways
• 1:17:33
  have great views of the castle for sure.
• 1:17:36
  Yeah, yeah, I would agree with that.
• 1:17:38
  Those are those are some of my favorites when it comes to the
• 1:17:41
  castle. I think it's fun to get a
• 1:17:43
  different perspective on those and different view on those.
• 1:17:48
  You know, there's a lot of places, especially at Magic
• 1:17:51
  Kingdom that people just tend to take those photos of, right.
• 1:17:55
  We're talking about the castle. But again, it's it's that moving
• 1:17:58
  slightly off to the side or slightly back a little bit to
• 1:18:01
  give it a little bit different. Like I like if you're going to
• 1:18:04
  be up close to the castle, I like like even if the little
• 1:18:08
  walkways that take you directly underneath the castle are not
• 1:18:11
  open. They usually have a rope, but
• 1:18:13
  it's usually up a few steps. If you go up those few steps and
• 1:18:17
  get it kind of at an angle. I've got a great family photo of
• 1:18:20
  us on the left hand side and the rope is up because they had it
• 1:18:24
  closed off for the show that they were doing.
• 1:18:25
  But we went up against the rope and we're able to get kind of
• 1:18:29
  that side view and you basically remove all of the people out of
• 1:18:33
  behind you that because they're all down below you in that
• 1:18:36
  little courtyard instead of in the background of your photo.
• 1:18:41
  Yes and then another just fun photos is at the rides right?
• 1:18:50
  Like the iconic outside of Peter Pan.
• 1:18:53
  Such a cute backdrop Dumbo ride going so fun.
• 1:18:58
  They also have a photo op where it's the ride car planted.
• 1:19:02
  I'm pretty sure they have a teacup one in Disney World
• 1:19:05
  right? Or is that Disneyland?
• 1:19:07
  Disneyland has the teacup outside.
• 1:19:09
  Yeah, but we do. We do have an elephant outside
• 1:19:11
  of Dumbo. Yes, the elephant outside of
• 1:19:14
  Dumbo, because I remember taking my they were too scared to ride
• 1:19:17
  the ride, but they wanted a photo.
• 1:19:19
  So we put them in that. And it's such a cute moment.
• 1:19:21
  So like they have so many. You don't have to just get the
• 1:19:24
  castle to have moments of this is their first ride back up.
• 1:19:28
  You're in line. Or, you know, take a photo of it
• 1:19:31
  because that's such a, it's such a good moment.
• 1:19:34
  Yeah, one, when you exit Haunted Mansion 2, there's usually a
• 1:19:38
  photo pass photographer right there that will take great
• 1:19:41
  photos because you are close to the mansion, but they get the
• 1:19:44
  good angle to get it kind of to where you can see the whole
• 1:19:47
  mansion behind you. And they also have usually like
• 1:19:49
  the hitchhiking ghost little magic shot that you can do over
• 1:19:52
  there, which is one of my favorites.
• 1:19:53
  So yeah, absolutely. And I think yes, but and.
• 1:19:58
  Go ahead, Sarah, Go ahead. I was going to say again, you
• 1:20:03
  can always ask a photo pass person to take a photo on your
• 1:20:06
  phone. They have truly the best angles
• 1:20:10
  from all point of views because that's where they're supposed to
• 1:20:13
  be. For you to get a photo pass
• 1:20:14
  photo, wait in line, they'll have to take it on their camera.
• 1:20:19
  But you can also ask them be like, hey, can you get a photo
• 1:20:21
  of us on the phone? I know it's asking, but like,
• 1:20:24
  you're going to get a good photo.
• 1:20:27
  Yeah, because they know what they're, again, we talked about
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  the framing like they know what they're supposed to be framing.
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  They know what they're, you know, they've been trained.
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  That's why they're there. So they they can help you at
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  least get the basic level done and then you can go take it and
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  edit it. Like Sarah was saying, even if
• 1:20:41
  you whether you buy the photo pass one or they have it on on
• 1:20:45
  your device, you can can jump in and edit that.
• 1:20:47
  Definitely perfect. Well, I think that kind of wraps
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  up now. That was not a comprehensive
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  list of all of the photo spots, obviously, but those are just
• 1:20:56
  some highlights that you might want to visit whenever you go to
• 1:20:59
  the parks. I'd be the four or five hours
• 1:21:02
  podcast parking down every visual area and.
• 1:21:06
  It changes all the time, right? You you find Photo Pass
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  photographer, Sometimes they're there, sometimes they're here,
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  which is great. Like it's so fun.
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  And I will also kind of while we're talking about that mention
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  like if you see a photo pass photographer, take a look at
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  what they're what they're taking a photo of because they will
• 1:21:22
  move. Yeah, later in the day.
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  But they move, well, this is crazy.
• 1:21:26
  They move where the lighting is. Yes, that's, that's exactly what
• 1:21:30
  they're doing. It's mainstream.
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  Like, yeah, but like I could tell though, like in certain
• 1:21:36
  spots where they're like changing directions, especially
• 1:21:40
  in Hollywood studios, there's a lot of like moments where they
• 1:21:43
  do move like differently. And I'm just like, you're
• 1:21:47
  literally following the light. So it's, it's a crazy concept,
• 1:21:50
  but like definitely follow where the light is, you know, so.
• 1:21:54
  Yeah, And you never know what you might have like missed as a
• 1:21:56
  good angle. Like, I feel like there was that
• 1:21:59
  night where all of us were hanging out at Magic Kingdom and
• 1:22:01
  we had ridden Little Mermaid and we're coming back around towards
• 1:22:04
  the carousel. And we ran into the photo past
• 1:22:06
  photographer that was outside of Be Our Guest, but was getting it
• 1:22:10
  so that the beast castle was in the background.
• 1:22:12
  And we got super cute photos over there.
• 1:22:14
  And I would have never stopped to think about that being a
• 1:22:17
  really great photo op, but it was a really fun one.
• 1:22:21
  Yes and again, if the line isn't even long, just jump in like
• 1:22:26
  it's so fun it that's why he said we we were just walking.
• 1:22:30
  We're like, oh, we'll take a photo and it they.
• 1:22:33
  Not to be such cute photos. Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:22:35
  Yeah, exactly. I love it.
• 1:22:37
  Well, thank you guys so much for joining us for this episode and
• 1:22:40
  hearing us yap on about photos and how to take them and where
• 1:22:44
  to take them and all of those types of things.
• 1:22:47
  Thank you Sarah and Ty for giving us your time on this
• 1:22:50
  episode to chat about all of your knowledge and give us all
• 1:22:55
  these great tips for taking photos in the park.
• 1:22:58
  I have learned a lot and I I feel like our listeners have
• 1:23:01
  also probably learned a lot from you guys today.
• 1:23:05
  Awesome Bones, thank you so much.
• 1:23:06
  Yeah, and if you guys have further questions for Sarah and
• 1:23:09
  Ty, you can always get to them through me, but also Sarah and
• 1:23:13
  Ty, if they want to take a look at what you guys are up to on
• 1:23:17
  your social medias. Where can they find you online?
• 1:23:21
  Oh wow. OK, so we actually have you.
• 1:23:24
  Can put the links. Yeah, we have a link, but we
• 1:23:26
  actually have an Instagram that we need to put way more stuff
• 1:23:28
  in. So but we do have a fault to 2nd
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  Gloria Instagram that has our personal like projects we're
• 1:23:35
  currently working on. If you are wanting just to
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  follow us on Instagram, we have our own personal Instagram as
• 1:23:42
  well. I think mine is like Tyler Fault
• 1:23:45
  15. Yeah, and mine.
• 1:23:46
  Sarah, I'm. So.
• 1:23:49
  And then we'll play. Then we're on TikTok as well.
• 1:23:53
  Yes, we're on TikTok as well. Obviously, I see most of you
• 1:23:55
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• 1:24:00
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  St. Patreon so if you have any
• 1:24:05
  questions in there I am in those comments.
• 1:24:07
  So and I've been not trying to say anything, but I'm also going
• 1:24:13
  to be creating a whole new series this year on just my
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  video aspect of just me kind of restarting everything, you know,
• 1:24:20
  being a part of what I've done professionally for the past 12
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  years. I'm kind of doing a fresh
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  If not, totally understand. But like that, that's not ever
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  be creating on just me restarting becoming a film maker
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  again. So.
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  I love that. That's going to be so fun.
• 1:24:43
  Well, I will definitely include all of those links in our show
• 1:24:46
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• 1:24:48
  And as always, if you need to reach me, I'm not the exciting
• 1:24:51
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• 1:25:02
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• 1:25:04
  You can find sneak peeks of what's to come over there as
• 1:25:07
  well as just some chit chat on there as well.
• 1:25:10
  I will be sure to post about the the apps that Sarah mentioned
• 1:25:14
  earlier tonight over there and include those in our show notes
• 1:25:18
  as well. And all of that being said, that
• 1:25:22
  is the end of our time with you today.
• 1:25:24
  So thank you guys so much for joining us for this episode of
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  Mom St. USA and I will see you on the
• 1:25:28
  next one. Bye everyone.