Play Like a Child at Hershey’s Park
By KK on Sep 19, 2007 in Featured, Stress Management, Parks, Rest and Recreation, Traveler
Continued from: A Dream Come True, Hersheys Chocolate World continued
Investing in a good digital camera(like a Canon) that can take fast action shots can really pay off. I have a difficult time taking pictures of my daughter. Genuine smiles are just hard to come by because I can’t tell her to pose and smile even if she doesn’t feel like it! It doesn’t work that way. I look at the photos that I asked her to smile and they look forced as if she was pained to do so. The facial expression is unnatural. I can take beautiful smiles with the fast action setting. The challenging part is having the right lens. I would have loved to get a close-up shot but I left the long lens at home. Walking around in an amusement park with a full blown camera gear can be quite a pain. I find it difficult to point and shoot without the tripod as I still can’t seem to hold still with a long lens yet, even with an image stabilizer.
This beautiful carousel was built in 1919 and restored. The craftmanship is just superb! My husband took this shot. I was riding the carousel too but I was at the back!
Another reason why fast action setting of the digital camera is a good idea. This ride is just for children, darn!
Captures priceless smiles.
I wasn’t sure how I was going to handle this but I did it anyway.
After a test flight, I was ready to fly somewhere else than go around and round.
Watching over Lil K
Even daddy feels like a kid again!
julie | Sep 20, 2007 | Reply
Little K looked like she had a blast! I enjoyed looking at your photos. Thanks for sharing these, Tina
auee | Sep 20, 2007 | Reply
That looks like fun!
re: smiles
Ah you’re so right. My son has got this “canned” smile. I keep telling him to relax but even in their nursery picture ganun din hehe
Mary | Sep 20, 2007 | Reply
Aaaw, how cute! I’ve never been to Hershey Park, can you believe it?
geri | Sep 20, 2007 | Reply
I’m so jealous of your cam
Fabulous photos, you have a point there about fast cameras and the smiles.
Beng | Sep 21, 2007 | Reply
looks like you guys had a great time there :). bakit di ka rin sumakay
oh btw, i hope you mind…i tagged you dear. kindly visit my site nalang for further info.
have a pleasant weekend!
KK | Sep 21, 2007 | Reply
Hi Everyone, Thanks for dropping by and I really I appreciate you all taking time to comment. Have a great weekend you all!
Hi Teacher Julie, Thanks and it’s a pleasure sharing with you.
Hi Auee, It’s really a challenge diba? Specially now that my daughter is getting more aware that she has the prerogative to say “I don’t want to.”
Hi Mary,
You should go one of these days, it’s really fun! Specially your boys are old enough for the more exciting rides and go to the boardwalk with water slides!
Hi Geri,
. Your son will be moving faster and you would want the “action shots.” Pose photos are getting boring to me.
Don’t be jealous of my cam, buy one for Christmas
Hi Ms. Beng,
I did your taggie already.
Sumakay naman ako, check out the Starship and the other rides. I took the photos from the angle of being a rider.
K | Sep 22, 2007 | Reply
Honestly, if not for my pamangkins who initiated to take on the Dumbo The Flying Elephant Ride at the Magic Kingdom, siguro I’d just sit in the bench watching people while eating cotton candy - kaso it’s addicting so I ended up taking few consecutive rides at Space Mountain.
KK | Sep 22, 2007 | Reply
Hi K,
That’s why it’s great to hang-out with children ano? We feel like kids too :)!
Belle | Sep 22, 2007 | Reply
there are great photos of lil K’s precious smile. hehehe, am not all familiar with my camera yet. i didn’t know that you have to put the camera on fast action setting when the subject being photographed is moving. thanks for the tips. i am so much to learn still.
i don’t like to get on those rides as i get nauseated. the kids love it though.
K | Sep 23, 2007 | Reply
HAHAHAHAHAHA *crying from laughing* when I saw my url on your link acrhives it reads — > K - Lady in HK. Nak ng pitong kuba, naging babae ako agad.
Pasaway din pala kayo.
KK | Sep 23, 2007 | Reply
Ay sorry po. I will change it
Girlie | Sep 26, 2007 | Reply
haaay, i’ve been meaning to comment on this entry, ewan ko ba bakit di ko masulat sulat, it’s parang some things come up pag mag comment nako ^_^
I love long lenses too, meron secret ng paghawak Tin ^_^ para di masyado mauga. Itukod mo elbows mo sa may tummy part, then stand on 1 side lang…lol
we missed hershey’s park, close sya that time we were there