Capture Your Moment, A New Disney Parks Photo Experience at Magic Kingdom
 

Disney PhotoPass new service allows guests to book an in-park photo session at the Magic Kingdom.

For those celebrating something special who want a bit more time in front of the camera, Disney are piloting a new experience at Magic Kingdom Park called "Capture Your Moment,".

Capture Your Moment lets you book time with a Disney PhotoPass photographer for a personalized photo session during regular park hours at Magic Kingdom Park to capture celebrations and milestones, such as a proposal, baby announcement, graduation, anniversary, family reunion, first visit, birthday, and more!

All Capture Your Moment photo session locations will offer an iconic view of Magic Kingdom Park, to include a view of Cinderella Castle. At the start of your session, your photographer will share available photo shoot locations and discuss what you’d like to capture before escorting you to your photo shoot location. Once you arrive at your photo shoot location, you will have the opportunity to capture photos there with your photographer for up to 20 minutes.

Each Capture Your Moment session is $50.
When you book two Capture Your Moment sessions back-to-back for $100, you can spend up to 40 minutes with your photographer capturing photos. During your 40 minutes, you'll have the option to visit at least two photo locations.

Your Disney PhotoPass photographer will customise your photo shoot to your needs while using their creativity and personal style to take stunning photos.

Call 407-939-7758 to book a Capture Your Moment session. Capture Your Moment photo sessions are available starting February 10, 2020. A limited number of same-day reservations may be available starting February 10, but you must call 407-939-7758 to inquire.

Prints and digital downloads are not included with the price of a Capture Your Moment session. However, those with a Disney PhotoPass entitlement like Memory Maker or Memory Maker One Day, as well as qualifying Annual Passholders with a Disney PhotoPass download benefit, can download the photos captured during Capture Your Moment from their Disney accounts at no extra cost.

Yet another way to skim more money off paying guests. We won't bother

I imagine they get so many requests for proposal photographs they have had to come up with some way of managing it. I might see how many nice photos we’ve got over the first week or so if I haven’t done well I’ll book this.

We have booked this for our trip. I just want one really nice picture of my kids, with the castle in the background to hang on my living room wall. It is such a huge deal for me to take them to WDW and to be doing it all “properly”, they also will most likely be in their teens before they visit again. I REALLY want to bottle every second. We are booked in for 9.15am on February 27th

And yet it's not ridiculous either. I book a local photographer for a family session every trip because I'm big on photos basically, and admittedly we would normally book for a bit longer, but spending $200 on an hour with a photographer to get the images (not prints) is pretty reasonable for a good family photographer. Amazing photographers are more. 40 minutes for $100 is not a bad price point on that scale.

My only concern is are they allocating more experienced PhotoPass photographers to these appointments, because you can walk down Main Street on any given day and pass both a PhotoPass photographer who is excellent and could work well privately but prefers to work in the park AND someone who has had basically a day of in-house training and now is set off to work. I would be disappointed if my paid for session had some of the rookie mistakes we've experienced over the years. (Those mistakes actually don't bother me when they are ordinary PhotoPass pictures. We can almost always queue up again if we check the app and they aren't keepers.)

I'd give it a whirl, and I'd love to see what you get, Tiggerbelle! I hope you get that shot you want and can have it big on your wall to smile at every day. :)

I wish they had this available when we were there in October... it was near impossible to get a decent photo of my little boy in front of the castle to mark his first trip to WDW. $50 to capture that magical moment would have been worth every penny to me.

Hope your shoot goes well Tiggerbelle, please share the photos when you get back! :)

does anyone know how far in advance you can book - it seems like the booking link is broken on the website, or it's not available at the moment?

Less free photographers as a result? In other words becomes more or less an upcharge service I’m afraid like many, I’ve become highly sceptical of any such changes. $50 an hour will hardly cover costs, and I’m struggling to believe Disney are not looking at profit.

We are due to fly out in two weeks for my 40th birthday. My sister has offered to pay for this for my birthday. Just wondering what people's experience is if you have used this before?
We have memory maker included anyway, but worried these pictures might not be high enough resolution to have a big print done when we get home.
Is capture your moment worth the additional cost, or will the pictures just be the same as memory maker?
TIA

It sounds like the pictures will be the same as Memory Maker.