Sedona Arizona Photography Hot Spot Location
& Milky Way Skies
We have a friend named Bimmy in Sedona, but we lost our contact information. Hopefully, she will see this someday and contact us. Update: Good News!! We found Bimmy on our Extra Eyes Photo Tour while in Sedona! Sedona, Arizona’s main attraction is its array of red sandstone formations. The formations appear to glow in brilliant orange and red when illuminated by the rising or setting sun. The red rocks form an attractive backdrop for many activities, ranging from spiritual pursuits to the hundreds of hiking and mountain biking trails.
Sedona, Arizona is a Milky Way Photography Location
Sedona, Arizona offers many specific locations to do insanely dynamic photography! Our weather was not great, so we did not get what we wanted, but we did get a whole lot of drama in the sky. The Chapel of the Holy Cross, Cathedral Rock, and the Airport view are some great locations, just to name a few. Don’t forget about night photography in Sedona. They have some pretty dark skies outside of town. Visit our dark sky information page to find out how to get information on dark skies and milky way photography. You can see some earth-shattering milky way images below from Sedona, our Arizona Photography. We all work our butts off here. We have bragging rights. 🙂
We are returning to Sedona shortly to absorb some of its scrumptious scenery and bask in its atmosphere of energy vortexes. Extra Eyes Photo Tours will take you there. Pair this location up with Oak Creek Canyon as they do. www.extraeyesphototours.com
The next tour is in the fall, but they will also be doing a Milky Way Photography Tour in the general Sedona, Arizona area. It will definitely include Lee’s Ferry. Check out the Lee’s Ferry Milky Way Photography page with the aliens landing image that will blow your mind. They are creating the milky way tour and gathering information, and it will be available soon.
Sedona Arizona Photography Hot Spot Location
Arizona has some of the darkest skies in the lower forty-eight. An abundance of clear skies makes it the perfect location to plan a milky way photography trip here. It is effortless to create jaw-dropping milky way images in Sedona. There are red rocks to strategically put in your milky way images, as you see in the pictures on this page. You can be right near the city lights, and the milky way is still screaming bright colors above you.
Your family can do some star gazing if they come along with you to view the night skies. The kids will be amazed at the number of stars there are and how bright they are especially if you come from somewhere like New Jersey. We have three stars here. We have a few milky way locations in New Jersey, but we like Sedona much better for viewing the milky way and getting incredible images.
There are a plethora of photo opportunities in Sedona Arizona. We highly suggest it for all photographers
Photography Information for Sedona Arizona
Lens: This area is a wide-angle lens location, but there is some wildlife, so if you have a zoom lens, keep it nearby. Make sure you have a lens 2.8 or lower for your milky way. If you don’t own a proper lens for milky way photography, you absolutely must rent one. You cannot go all the way here and stand under this amazing solar system and not come home with milky way images.
Gear: Bring your tripod and your circular polarizing filters. The CPL will make your puffy white clouds burst and deepen the blue sky color around them. It will also take the glare off the water and replace it with the reflection. Bring your tripod too. If there is not enough light when you are shooting, you will want to use it to get some depth of field (higher F-stop). Don’t forget your ND filter in case if you’re going to shoot moving waters. Bring your shutter release for your milky way photography and bring a flashlight.
Gear List at a Glance: Circular polarizing filter, neutral density filters, tripod, shutter release, wide-angle and zoom lens, and a flashlight.