Of course the dim light in the canyon definitely presents issues when you are forced to shoot through f250, but as a photographer you either manage or you don't. I came loaded with 400 speed film and this was just fast enough to keep exposures in the brighter rooms about 4 minutes, which isn't too bad at all really. I have had to do exposures much longer than that with my pinhole. Actually at the end of our two hours here I tried a 30 minute exposure in one of the less bright areas that actually turned out a stop or two underexposed still.

One of the advantages to pinhole cameras (and specifically their long exposures) is the effect they have on people in your photos. I will save the story of how insanely crowded Antelope Canyon is for my next post, but suffice it to say, their are people everywhere. When you are in the canyons you have to constantly time your exposures to avoid folk wandering through, which they do constantly. Of course, if you are in Antelope Canyon, you yourself are constantly having to wander through others' photos. Anyway, pinhole cameras come in handy because the longer exposures mean that unless people stay very still for a couple of minutes they don't actually show up at all, so I was not too worried about people wandering through, and if they did, and still showed up, well I thought that might be kind of interesting too. In this photo there are actually a couple of ghosts as it turns out because as people walked by the beam of light they picked up enough exposure to show up in the photo. Interesting.

Anyway, I know this is the requisite shot of Antelope Canyon, and yeah whatever. Maybe half the planet owns this image of their own, but it is still an amazing scene and nothing wrong with having one of your own.