This place is very accessible. You can park your car for free and enter for free. Only thing is that you have to hike for 3 miles under the sun with no shade. It's a tough hike during summer when the temperature is 120. You walk on a sandy terrain, so extra energy is wasted each step. Make sure to bring lots of water. (Nikon D800E, Nikkor 16-35mm at 20mm. 1/250, f/8, ISO = 100, handheld)
This is an amazing place in Page, AZ. You should go there once. But, as far as photography goes, this is the only shot you have. Clouds, sun light, etc can change the picture but as far as the composition goes, this is it. All you need is a wide angle lens and you don't need to carry anything else.
This place is very accessible. You can park your car for free and enter for free. Only thing is that you have to hike for 3 miles under the sun with no shade. It's a tough hike during summer when the temperature is 120. You walk on a sandy terrain, so extra energy is wasted each step. Make sure to bring lots of water. (Nikon D800E, Nikkor 16-35mm at 20mm. 1/250, f/8, ISO = 100, handheld)
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I took this pic in the Hopi land. I was taught that people look at the upper left corner of a image and move their eyes to the lower right corner naturally. So I made the upper left corner bright relative to the lower right corner. There also is a leading path of the canyon in the middle of the pic. I was fortunate to visit this place when the shadows are long and contrasty. There were also nice clouds that made the sky more interesting as well. I love the colors in this pic although I enhanced the saturation a little in the post processing. I took this in raw with a polarizer. I captured things in near, middle and far to create depth in the picture. I can look at this pic for a long time without getting bored. (Nikon D800E, Nikkor 16-35mm at 16mm, 1/320, f/9, ISO = 200, handheld, little bit of saturation enhancement)
You've seen a similar picture before. Those pics you've seen are taken mostly at these slot canyons in Arizona. This one was taken in Lower Antelope slot canyon. There are two famous canyons right next to each other near Page, Az. The lower canyon is longer, cheaper and less commercialized. The upper is more commercialized; therefore, more expensive to get in and more crowded. I went to the lower canyon during winter and I had the canyon to myself. I didn't have to worry about a tourist being in my pic. Only problem was that the light in winter was so low that it was harder to get good lighting in the canyon. Unfortunately, the day was also cloudy. Usually, you don't want the sky in the pic for slot canyon pics because it screws up the exposure, but I was able to shoot up the day because the sky wasn't too bright.
I only took my Nikkor 16-35mm wide angle zoom, cranked up my ISO to 3200 auto, set my VR on, and cranked up my WB setting to 6,000 Kelvin to get more red color. I shot JPEGs in the VIVID mode with extra +1 on sharpness and +1 on saturation. I used the Program Auto mode and just kept shooting. I didn't even bring a tripod. All the pictures I took were handheld. Exposure compensation to -2 and bracketed with +/- 0.7. I ended up using all the middle exposures anyways, though. It's dusty and tight in the canyon, so bring your wide angle lens and leave the others in your car. It's better to keep shooting many angles rather than setting up tripod every time simply because you will have way more pics to choose from and other tourists don't have to get stuck behind you. Thanks to the technologies, we can take pics in the dark handheld nowadays. (Nikkor D800E, Nikkor 16-35mm at 24mm, f/4, 1/60, ISO = 3,200, handheld, JPEG, Vivid +, WB = about 6,500) |
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