Antelope Canyon Slot Images
Antelope Canyon 100 mile Ultra Antelope Canyon 50 mile Ultra Antelope Canyon 55km Ultra Antelope Canyon Half Marathon 3. Tap on the label on the map tap 'install' and the map will begin to download. The map is now ready to use “offline”. Simply open the app, click on the Map and your GPS location will appear on the map. Antelope Canyon. It is the most photographed slot canyon in world, and for good reason. You probably saw pictures of it before you even knew the name of the place, or where it was. Pictures of Antelope Canyon are pre-loaded screensavers on nearly every computer in the world, and photos are found everywhere on Instagram.
Antelope Canyon is a slot canyon near Page, Arizona. I recently spent a day there shooting the upper canyon (there are two slot canyons, “upper” and “lower”) and had a blast. We had Antelope Canyon virtually to ourselves (a small group of five) for several hours.
A hiker admiring the striated walls and dramatic light within Antelope Canyon, a deep narrow slot canyon formed by water and wind erosion.
Image ID: 18009
Location: Navajo Tribal Lands, Page, Arizona, USA
Images of Antelope Canyon, upper and lower, sharing photo techniques of capturing the incredible light of slot canyons. Find & Download Free Graphic Resources for Antelope Canyon. 400+ Vectors, Stock Photos & PSD files. Free for commercial use High Quality Images. Marvel at Arizona’s awe-inspiring sandstone slot canyon when you visit Antelope Canyon in northern Arizona. Few geological formations are as picturesque and awe-inspiring as Antelope Canyon, a magnificent slot canyon just east of Page in Northern Arizona.
Slot canyons are formed when water and wind erode a cut through a (usually sandstone) mesa, producing a very narrow passage that may be as slim as a few feet and a hundred feet or more in height. The Upper Antelope Slot Canyon is likely the world’s most well-known slot canyon, having appearing in films, television commercials and thousands of published photographs. The sandstone striations, wildly curving walls, ethereal light and tortured twisting passages that characterize Upper Antelope Canyon draw visitors and photographers year round, to the point that the canyon becomes jammed with people in the hot hot hot summertime.
Antelope Canyon, a deep narrow slot canyon formed by water and wind erosion.
Image ID: 18000
Location: Navajo Tribal Lands, Page, Arizona, USA
Normally the Antelope Canyon slot canyons are dry and sandy, but flash floods form suddenly, transforming the slot canyon in minutes into a roiling, water-filled trap in rainy weather. Tragically, in 1997 a flash flood in the lower Antelope Canyon slot canyon killed eleven people of a party of twelve. Both the upper and less-visited lower slot canyons in Antelope Canyon are accessible only through permit and are located on LaChee Navajo tribal lands near Page, Arizona.
A hiker admiring the striated walls and dramatic light within Antelope Canyon, a deep narrow slot canyon formed by water and wind erosion.
Image ID: 17993
Location: Navajo Tribal Lands, Page, Arizona, USA
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The location: Antelope Canyon
Antelope Canyon is one of many stunning slot canyons on the Navajo Nation near Page, Arizona. The canyon is at ground level, meaning you don’t have to hike uphill or downhill to access it. Despite being less than 1,000 feet long, Upper Antelope Canyon is one of the most visited tourist destinations of the Southwest. Lower Antelope Canyon and Canyon X are growing in popularity as well. Access to all three canyons is limited to paid guided tours.
The story: a photographer’s dream
While planning a month-long trip to the Grand Circle, an area of northern Arizona and southern Utah including multiple national parks, we debated putting Antelope Canyon on the itinerary. During high season, the “photography” tours of Upper Antelope will set you back $80-120 for just 2-3 hours, and we weren’t sure if it would be worth the cost. Encouraged by family members who’d recently toured the slot canyon, we determined this bucket list photography site was worth the investment.
Is the photography tour worth it?
Yes. If your goal is to take great photos of Antelope Canyon, you should pay for one of the longer photography tours. You’re allowed to bring any camera on the basic hour-long sightseeing tours, but you can’t bring a tripod and you won’t have nearly enough time. The guides for the photography tours are often more experienced and have good suggestions for making the most of your time. All in all, these are some of my favorite photos I’ve ever taken.
Taking the best possible photos
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Limited time in the canyon
With about two hours in the slot canyon, time goes by too fast. You only have a few minutes at each point of interest. You’ll have to make compositions quickly and then not worry about them. There isn’t time here to get familiar with new equipment, so make sure you feel comfortable with your gear. Have everything clean, charged, and ready to roll.
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Bags are not allowed in the slot canyon, including photo gear bags. You’ll have to fit everything in your pockets. Because you spend so much time crouching or kneeling in the dust, long pants are best. Snacks aren’t really necessary in the amount of time and you only need a small water bottle.
Camera gear and settings
Due to the time and dust, you don’t want to mess with changing lenses while in Antelope Canyon. Use the widest angle option you can. Bring a tripod that’s easy to adjust quickly even if it isn’t very tall. (The photography tour required me to bring a tripod and it was essential for quality shots.) About 90% of my shots were taken from very low to the ground looking up, so a flip screen is a helpful bonus. Don’t forget your lens cloth.
I chose to use auto-white balance and neutral color settings. I don’t like making color decisions based on my little LCD view screen. The more neutral settings allow me to take my time on those choices in my digital dark room. I took my polarizing filter off part way through the tour to save a couple F stops. A U/V filter will help protect your lens from dust and is all you need. Definitely use bracketing—multiple exposures of the same shot—to capture detail in both shadow and light. Use a remote so your hands don’t shake the camera.
The gear: Canon
These photos of Upper Antelope Canyon near Page, AZ were taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II, with a Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L wide lens.
You can see the complete album of Antelope Canyon photos on the Wildsight Flickr page. Check out our photos for sale in the Wildsight Photography Etsy shop.
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