Four Tips for Great Antelope Canyon Photos

In May 2007, I made my 4th visit to Antelope Canyon near Page, AZ.

Antelope Canyon is an unbelievable slot canon cut through Navaho sandstone. At certain modern modern times of the twenty-four hours at certain times of the year, the sunshine comes in the top of the canyon, illuminating it with a aureate light. The canon have been featured in many magazines, sometimes with shafts of visible light capturing atoms of dust set in movement by the cool breeze. Everyone who sees these photographs dreamings of taking photographs just like them.

The sad world of Antelope Canyon is that it's a major tourer attractive force that have 100s of visitants a day. The premier noon clip slots are especially crowded, with tons of photographers vying for place to capture the perfect image. Add to that the normal tourer crowd with their flash photographic cameras and you have got a less-than-perfect photo opportunity.

That said, I'm proud to state that during my May trip, I took some of the best photographs I'd ever taken of Antelope Canyon -- despite the fact that I had never before seen so many people there. The "serious" photographers were especially obnoxious, blocking the narrow canon with their tripods, making it adjacent to impossible for anyone to travel forward. Yet there was only one individual within sight when I took my photos, and I did it with a point-and-shoot digital camera.

Here are my secrets.

• Don't be in a hurry. The circuit groupings visiting Antelope Canyon come up in truckloads of 6 to 18 people each. In most cases, grouping members are in a haste to acquire through the canyon. The truth is, the first two or three Chambers are the most beautiful and usually have got the best light. By hanging back in the group, you can have got these Chambers all to yourself — before the adjacent grouping come ups through. (That's how I establish myself alone with just one other photographer for a full five proceedings with this beautiful scene in presence of me.)


• Turn off your flash. Flash light will rinse out the colours and cast of characters deep shadows where shadows simply don't belong. If your photographic camera have an "automatic" or "program" mode, it should be "smart" enough to acquire the exposure right. All of my photographs were taken with natural visible light — and it shows!


• Use a tripod. This is must. Don't trust mental image stabilisation features. I mount my photographic camera vertically on the tripod and widen its legs while I'm calm on the truck, so I'm cook to travel right away. Then all Iodine make is distribute the tripod's legs, embed its feet in the farinaceous flooring of the canyon, and fine-tune to frame in my subject. And, in lawsuit you're wondering, my tripod for this duty is a $10 theoretical account that was thrown in as a giveaway with my picture photographic photographic photographic camera — in other words, a piece of junk.


• Use a cablegram release…or your camera's self-timer. Pushing the button on your camera will agitate it — possibly adequate to film over the image. That's why you should utilize a cablegram release to catch the photo. Your photographic camera doesn't back up that? No problem. Set the camera's ego timer to one or two secs and fourth estate the button. Your button-pressing finger will be safely out of the manner when the photograph snaps.

Not planning a trip to Antelope Canyon? Not a problem. In general, these tips will use to any low-light location that's A favourite among tourists. Just travel when you anticipate the visible light to be best and have got patience.