Waterfalls | Maxwell Danger Photography

I just got back from a nice trip down to Niagara Falls Ontario for the night and what an awesome night it was. Lots of sun, tons of heat, and storm warnings all over the place. Ive seen the falls lots in my life, but everytime I go back, I’m always in awe. Its just such an awesome bit of landscape, seriously intense. It was also a great day to take some photos of the falls because the water was a nice aqua, the sky blue and a perfect huge rainbow was hovering over the falls like a halo.
Later that night we headed back down to the falls for the fireworks show. And when they say they start the show right at 10pm, they mean it! We were half way there when it started, and decided to run down the hill to see it. But then I saw these lamp posts and the way they were lighting the trees around them with the fireworks in the background, I said “ill catch up”. All those photos were taken hand held, so the ISO was pushed and my hands had to be steady, but I think they all turned out. Enjoy

I decided to go on a canoe trip this week and head up to Algonquin Park, one of my favourite places to go. Its a little early in the season, but I love the cool sunny days, freezing nights, no bugs and no people. Algonquin was actually closed down due to flooding and ice conditions, so I had to find somewhere else to go. I decided to check out the Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park. I had never been there before, and apparently it only opened up back in 2011. There are no hiking trails, its only water access at this time.

Anyhow, I brought along my triped, camera and an ND (Neutral Density) filter. An ND filter is basically like sunglasses for your lens. There are different degrees of how dark you can get them. I have a very dark one, its basically “Black Glass”. It allows me to have very long exposures in the middle of a sunny day. Its excellent for a lot of reasons. If youre on vacation and want to get a photo of a statue or bridge but there are lots of cars or people walking around it, use the ND filter and have a very long exposure and all the people or cars will be blurred right out of the photo! I used it to have long exposures of all these lovely waterfalls I found. Since my ND is so dark, you can’t frame up a shot with the filter on, so you have to frame your shot, get your focus down, then switch to Manual focus and carefully screw on the filter. If you leave auto focus on, your camera will have a hard time focusing because it wont be able to see anything. Then adjust your settings as you like to get the exposure that you most like. Anyhow, here are some of the photos that I came up with. Enjoy