Jeff Epp
the mighty thundering niagara falls
for those of us who live within an short drive of this world wonder, we should consider looking at it again. this morning after a staff breakfast, i had a little time to kill before my class started so i took my camera down to the falls.
there were a few hundred tourists at 8am on an april morning. by the time i left (around 9:30) the sidewalks were filling up. just wait until the summer. these people come to see something nearly unbelievable. the amount of water over these falls every second is incredible. and we who live here just avoid the area most of the time because the tourist traffic is so bad...
by the way, this is the original shot (other than painstakingly removing sensor dust marks). the painted look comes from using a longish shutterspeed on fast moving water. i had to stack my polarizing filter and a three-stop neutral density filter on the lens to get it slow enough to blur properly.
best viewed large. (click on all sizes)
PLUG for a great underexposed photographer: Boss_Pedro has only a small number of pictures up, but he's got a fantastic eye. You should definitely check out his photostream.
www.flickr.com/photos/boss_pedro/
the mighty thundering niagara falls
for those of us who live within an short drive of this world wonder, we should consider looking at it again. this morning after a staff breakfast, i had a little time to kill before my class started so i took my camera down to the falls.
there were a few hundred tourists at 8am on an april morning. by the time i left (around 9:30) the sidewalks were filling up. just wait until the summer. these people come to see something nearly unbelievable. the amount of water over these falls every second is incredible. and we who live here just avoid the area most of the time because the tourist traffic is so bad...
by the way, this is the original shot (other than painstakingly removing sensor dust marks). the painted look comes from using a longish shutterspeed on fast moving water. i had to stack my polarizing filter and a three-stop neutral density filter on the lens to get it slow enough to blur properly.
best viewed large. (click on all sizes)
PLUG for a great underexposed photographer: Boss_Pedro has only a small number of pictures up, but he's got a fantastic eye. You should definitely check out his photostream.
www.flickr.com/photos/boss_pedro/