Photo Title:	Disney Magic at Almost Midnight
Photographer:	Noel Carboni
Location of Photograph:	Disney World Magic Kingdom near Orlando, Florida
What the photographer likes about the image:	Disney illuminates Cinderella's castle with varying colored floodlights throughout the evening, making it a natural photographic subject. Some years ago I had taken a nice photo of the castle with my older D-500L digital camera and I wanted a similar shot with my newer, much higher resolution C-2500L. This shot offsets the bronze figures of Walt Disney and his first creation, Mickey Mouse, against the fantasy of one of his later masterpieces.
Techniques Used:	I set the camera for ISO 100, a wide aperture and manual shutter time. I got behind a post, rested the camera solidly on top, zoomed in on the castle until it nearly filled the frame and fired several shots. I bracketed with several _ second exposures and a 1-second exposure (watching the LCD back panel between shots).
Things to notice:	If you open the picture in an image editor, you can increase the brightness to see people moving about near the bottom. You'll notice trees in the photo as well. One of the things I love about digital cameras is that they capture a great deal of information in the near black and near white areas of an exposure, which can be recovered in the digital darkroom.