Flash Photography On Dark Rides: A Completely Anonymous Poll

[Disney4family]

WHAAAT? HOWWW? I ALWAYS EXPERIENCE FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY ON THOSE RIDES! Tell me your secrets! How do I go on that ride without annoying tourists?

No clue. I guess I'm fortunate enough to get my Daily Disney fix of flash on Ariel & Pirates. Sorry. I must hog them all up there and leave nothing for Peter or Pooh. I'll plan better for my next trip...
Maybe they can offer FP+ and Flash FP+. Those who wish to flash away can all go together. Those of us who wish to actually see the attraction and enjoy it can go together. It'll be a new tier offered - entitled or polite.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Speak for yourself.

Funny... that's what I was actually doing. You guys want to miss the other 80% of stuff while you are lining up the next shot... why should I care?

 

[Edward M]

No, because I don't want to ruin everyone else's experience, and I'm also not an awful person.

 

[Tori]

I never use flash to begin with.

 

[Incomudro]

I despise the cell phone coming out to VIDEO the entire dang ride! Come on!!! Talk about rude!! Especially when it's in an attraction where they tell you no recoding devices allowed! That peeves me off almost worse than the flash!!

Yeah, this is worse and more common than the flash photography.
I've been on PotC where half the people in the boat had their illuminated phone screens out while they recorder video.
Completely takes me out of the immersion of the ride.

 

[Rlandrigan]

So, yes, I occasionally use flash on dark rides...BUT: it's an infrared flash So it's invisible to anyone's vision, but does let me catch my kiddo's faces at that perfect jaw-drop moment Or screaming on Space Mountain...

Visible flash is rude and gross, on rides, etc. and sad, because it's going to look crappy. Every disney trip is a chance to see how much better my current camera/s are in the dark

 

[danyoung56]

I've been on PotC where half the people in the boat had their illuminated phone screens out while they recorder video.

I wanted to get some shots of Rivers of Light, but I didn't because I didn't want my big bright screen to bother anyone else. Back in the days when you looked through an eyepiece it wasn't such a big deal.

 

[KBLovedDisney]

Like Neil DeGrasse Tyson said about the solar eclipse, put down your phone and enjoy the experience.

 

[DfromATX]

I wanted to get some shots of Rivers of Light, but I didn't because I didn't want my big bright screen to bother anyone else. Back in the days when you looked through an eyepiece it wasn't such a big deal.

I can remember when digital cameras first came out and people were still in the habit of looking through the eye piece. I'm sure I did it too and got laughed at by my children...

 

[NelleBelle]

I can remember when digital cameras first came out and people were still in the habit of looking through the eye piece. I'm sure I did it too and got laughed at by my children...

We actually still DO still look through the eye piece/view finder. I find that sometimes you get too much glare on the screen when it's really bright. I'll use the screen sometimes, if I can't get in a good position to take the shot (holding camera over head and rotating screen towards us). We love our camera--the flash actually has to be manually installed if we want flash (which honestly, we rarely do).

 

[SyracuseDisneyFan]

I do find it irritating when park guests choose not to obey the no flash photography rule.

 

[Castle Cake Apologist]

As long as my picture comes out ok who cares.

Disney seems to care, considering it's a violation of park rules.

 

[copcarguyp71]

Disney should place undercover "ride marshals" on rides with tasers much like air marshals. Use of flash photography should be met with a stern tasing and being dragged from the ride semi conscious and drooling.

Of course I'm kidding....or am I

 

[SyracuseDisneyFan]

In 2014, I was at Disney World with my family. On our DHS day, some of us went to see Voyage Of The Little Mermaid. The woman in front of us was holding up her tablet taking video of the performance, even though it was against the rules. My Dad told her several times to stop.

 

[Courtney6682]

Yeah, this is worse and more common than the flash photography.
I've been on PotC where half the people in the boat had their illuminated phone screens out while they recorder video.
Completely takes me out of the immersion of the ride.

Same...I just don't get it! I have never once been sitting on my couch at home and thought...''Gee, I wish i could re-live that time I rode PoC in April of 2012.''

 

[NelleBelle]

In 2014, I was at Disney World with my family. On our DHS day, some of us went to see Voyage Of The Little Mermaid. The woman in front of us was holding up her tablet taking video of the performance, even though it was against the rules. My Dad told her several times to stop.

And what really gets me, besides the wanton desregaurd of what was just told to them, is that there is NEVER a CM who goes over and tells these (please excuse me...) morons to knock it off!! The iPad/tablet people are the ABSOLUTE worst IMO because you can see those darn screens from the back of the auditorium!! It irks me that these people think they are above rules or that somehow the rules do t apply to them, they're "special" after all...they paid a lot of $$ and they're going to do whatever they feel like.

 

[SyracuseDisneyFan]

I know right?

 

[Pixieish]

And what really gets me, besides the wanton desregaurd of what was just told to them, is that there is NEVER a CM who goes over and tells these (please excuse me...) morons to knock it off!! The iPad/tablet people are the ABSOLUTE worst IMO because you can see those darn screens from the back of the auditorium!! It irks me that these people think they are above rules or that somehow the rules do t apply to them, they're "special" after all...they paid a lot of $$ and they're going to do whatever they feel like.

It's the decade of "ME ME ME". It seriously makes me want to put Rapunzel's cast iron frying pan to good use.

 

[Disneyratboygenious]

If someon is taking one picture of the rides and not people I don’t mind. If people didn’t takes pictures in the rides you wouldn’t get to see em before you went on. Yes, you can take a picture without using flash but sometimes it just looks better in my opinion. Excessive flash is a bother though, but one no problem.

 

[The Empress Lilly]

And yet Disney installed that mega flash in your face on Pirates.

FoP understands what flash does: it temporarily blinds you, numbs your visual sense, makes it impossible to see your environment properly.