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Night photography in the slots

Oct 13 2026 | By: Jim Zuckerman Photography

A few years ago I arranged to bring my photo tour group into Upper Antelope Canyon near Page, Arizona at night during an American Southwest tour. It was expensive, but it was an incredible visual, emotional, and photographic experience. To illuminate the interior of the slot canyon, we used a small LED light that was pointed downward toward the sandy floor of the canyon. The light bounced up and illuminated the upper portions of the rock formation, and with a long exposure on a tripod, it worked. I shot this with a Sigma f/1.8 14mm wide angle lens, and the settings were 30 seconds, f/10, and 3200 ISO. Even though this was a night exposure, I used a fairly small lens aperture to insure all of the contours were sharp. I captured a small portion of the Milky Way in the opening near the top of the canyon.

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