Creating Dynamic Landscape Photographs Antelope Canyon
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
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In this episode I will show you how I photograph one of the most incredible places I have been to the Antelope Canyon. If you get a chance to go there, it is the place where you will get the most incredible photos in the least amount of time!
A few tips:
I used this Company for doing the upper Canyon
www.antelopecan... do the photography tour, not the regular one and ask for Patrick if you can, an amazing photographer, he will show you angles you would not find by yourself and even take a portrait of you as you go along! Don't forget though to give a huge tip, I feel he owns some of my photos - he was that helpfull!
The upper is darker then the lower so you can do that in the morning.
Do the lower canyon when you have a nice blue sky if possible as it is much more open - I used this company to do it
antelopelowerc... same thing I did the photography tour.
On the photography tour I was by myself with one guide in the Canyon and had all the time to prepare my shots. The first time I did the regular tour and it was so quick with so many people that I got only 20% of the shots that I got with the photography tour.
Winter seems to be a good period because not too many people are there, but you don't have all the light rays. From what I could tell the end of march is good for the top as there are not too many people there yet and there are some light rays.
Off course when you shoot:
Have your camera on a tripod
Use manual mode at around f 8 and make sure you have details in your shadows even if the highlights are burned a bit
Bracket -2 + 2 (this is a must, some photos will not just work if you don't bracket there as there is huge dynamic range)
have fun!
Serge
We just got back from Upper Antelope Canyon, it was breathtaking. I am so excited to find this video as I have been trying to figure out how to edit my pictures. Thank you for posting this video.
Oh Perfect! Happy to hear you had a nice time!! :-)
Thanks you Serge, I love the format of showing the making videos and postprocessing. Amazing results on the prictures! Please continue the national park tours.
Amazing! I'm learning everything... everything is brand new to me and I'm so excited. Thank you Serge... heading out to Antelope Canyon for the first time this December. I will use your presets for my photos. Thank you so much. God bless. 💓
Perfect! Very happy that I can help you out in your photography :-)
Awesome photos Serge!
This is great. I was just in Upper Antelope Canyon in October on a photography tour. I'm going to try your techniques on my photos. Thanks Serge.
I was there in June and did both upper and lower, I was a little disappointed by the upper but the lower was fantastic, the guide was very helpful in pointing out shapes that look like faces. Well worth the trip.
Thanks for the files and also showing your editing process and talking about the visit. Great work :)
Incredible photos as always. Sounds like you had an awesome road trip through the southwest!
Thanks. Just came back from Arizona and unfortunately didn't have the luxury to be able to use a tripod-that was not allowed on the tour I was on. Used a 6400 ISO f/2.8 @100th sec and a Tokina Wide 11-16 Lens @11mm. Thanks for your UA-cam (however I needed luminance to keep the pixels soft) as I used and slightly adjusted your other settings for a lower canyon tour and the pictures came out better than I had done on my own.
Great video. I go next week and can't wait. Thanks for the tip and all your videos, they are great. G
Thanks for this video! I just got back from touring Upper and Lower Antelope Canyon and needed some tips on the best way to edit my RAW files. This was great!!
Lughtroom HDR and Pano is just awesome! Gaining more dynamic rage is often sooo usefull!
I went there this past summer, but I had to squeeze around and through LOTS of people even though I was on a photography tour. Guess it pays to be Serge!!!
thanks Serge, very useful video.
Thank you Serge for all these nice pictures and for sharing your experience and providing presets.
I have the opportunity to visit Antelope Lower Canyon in a few weeks.
As the special photo tour doesn't exist anymore I had to book a regular tour.
But in these tours, tripods are not permitted.
So my question is : in Lower canyon, without tripod, what settings would you suggest on a DSLR camera ?
Gerard
I saw somewhere that as of 2020 there would be no more "photography tours. Just the regular tours, and also they won't allow tripods anymore. I'm guessing you used a 16-35mm lens? What lens to use would be good tip.
yes 16-35 and i heard that too!
Thanks for tutorials & free Raw files :D
Serge Remelli is so awesome ! :) LOL at 10:25..... Some people also have empty white living room walls, and drive a white Prius with stock wheels. On the other end of the spectrum, you have photographers that wear Lime green camo cargo shorts :) lol Take a guess how I shoot / process my photos ;)
Great vid! thanks for sharing
The one with the stair is simplry incredible, Serge. I've been wanting to got there for quite some time. I hope I can go next year. Have you been to Horseshoe Bend? It's near Antelope Canyon and also worth a visit.
***** Ah ok :-) looking forward to seeing that episode then!
Great Video, can you advise on which tour company you used for a private tour? I keep reading about very frustrating and crowded experiences (even using the the photo tours) as they are not private and operate at the same time as every other tour.
Very nice tutorial as always. You did not talk about the special use permit you are supposed to get if you want to sell or post anything to social media.
Hey Serge, I'll be going to the slot canyons in a couple of days. Which tour guide would you recommend? It seems like you were not in a crowded area. Thanks!
Thank you. Hope to visit some day. What focal length did you take with? Heard you can't change lenses due to dust?
u can use a colormeter for accurate WB; unfortunately, it costs as much as a crop sensor camera
where is the link for the presets? can't get it?
great job for this amazing pictures
What software or computer editing program are you using?
Lightroom ;-)
Excellente Serge, Loving your work, Following you all the time. I could not help myself to ask you why have you switch from DSLR to Sony cameras. Are you using the DSLR's for anything.
I went during a busier period unfortunately and I didn't take the photography tour, but I think it was quite alright. The only disappointment was that I used manual focus on my Sony a7rii and as you said autofocus is doing a better job.. unfortunately I only noticed afterwards.. hope they can somehow fix this?
I thought the photographers tours was still a group but just smaller and more time was allowed. What tour company does private tours?
LightRoom HDR is great, did you know you don't have to bracket your images to use it? you can just use two shots with different exposures! I.e.. one for the sky and one for the foreground.
Who did you use for guides?
Two questions
1. I am logged in but cannot seem to see the link to the raw files??
2. Where is your focus point when taking these images. I notice you are shooting around F8 for most of these so to make sure the image is sharp all over where would you focus?
Thanks enjoy these videos.
Serge the problem with 16:00-16:50 you need to 3 bracket it.
Hello Serge.,
Where can I download the free RAW files and the LR presepts that did you use in this video?
Ok. I find it! Thanks
Thanx serge for giving free RAW files
where can I found these raw files and presets ?
william colman On his website. see the link in the description
Thanks Raja I logged in to his site but cannot find them. Can you get more specific where ?
william colman Okay. wait
william colman Go here mate
photoserge.com/free-lessons
I am signed in but cannot find where to download the Raw files. Help please!
Aha! Found them!
were you worried about the sand getting into the lens or camera? i was....
i'm learning photography. My question is will this be considered ethical when it comes to landscape photography to create situations which aren't naturally / originally there?
Yeh first :)
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From my opinion you really overdid the reds and the yellows making it look like it was shot with a lego camera. If you have a camera that can accurately capture the color, why make it fake. Let your images be the beauty, not the post-process slapped on top. I could get the same result with an Instagram filter with one click.
Ha :) LOL Another one of these guys :)
EpeRantala lol you must be new here.
Lol how cute
The most expensive photograph sold in the history of photography was shot in Antelope Canyon by Peter Lik. $6.5 million. Keep shootin' , Serge - There's gold in them thar canyons!