Antelope Canyon

Despite having planned on making it to Paige the night before, I crashed where I hiked and woke up in Utah. For this reason, I had to cancel my initial Photography Tour into the Lower Antelope Canyon. Instead, I took my time getting there.




These photo descriptions have a little more technical details. They all were taken on a ‘scenic view’ of Lake Powell with long lenses on a tripod. I was testing them out to see how crisp they would be. What I forgot about was how foggy everything was looking from a distance. I may have to test the lenses out again another day…

Anyways, made it to a little place that gave tours for Lower Antelope Canyon. There were two companies, side-by-side, offering the same prices (and from the reviews online, same customer service). Went to the first one, found out they had a tour happening in 5 minutes and ran with it! Since it wasn’t an official photography tour, all these images were handheld.

I (had) a little more detail on my portfolio and bigger images on there. I had taken some pictures of the beautiful Arizona skies just for in case. Thank goodness! So you inspiring nature photographers, keep that in mind ;)

As I'm editing and reviewing this in October, I realize now I just wasn't using the proper settings. Although the tour guide tried to help, I now know my camera much better, thanks to my photography tour guide from Ireland!

I probably would have tipped the guy in Antelope Canyon, but he made one fatal mistake at the beginning of the tour. He assumed that my friend had bought the fancy toy camera for me to play around with. Now, I don’t think he was intending to be offensive or disrespectful, but the feminist side of me just couldn’t tip him after that. He was great helping everybody’s cameras/camera phones set up through the settings, except for my camera. Everything came out dark. But good on him for trying. Most of the images used were with the HDR setting, which fortunately caught WAY more details for me to work with.

If you’re curious, the camera used was a Canon EOS 7D Mark II. I got it for my photography and design projects.

The tour was inside this:


But wait! The day is still young! Next post is cinemagraphs, but the one after that continues the Arizona journey with DINOSAUR TRACKS!!!!!