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Photography Tips for Capturing the
Desert’s Beauty
Deserts are captivating, often drawing you in with their vastness and mystery. From the golden
sands to the strange and unique rock formations, the desert presents many possibilities for travel or
landscape photography. However, photographing the desert is not as simple as point-and-shoot. If
you are considering going on a white desert safari or a Siwa Oasis and White Desert tour,
preparation or planning can help you take advantage of the desert's raw beauty.
So, below are some simple and effective tips to help you take Instagram-worthy pictures and videos.
Let’s jump in.
1. Understand the Light
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In photography, light is everything, and in the desert, light is amplified even more. Strong, harsh
sunlight during the day has the potential to create strong shadows and overexposed images. The
best time for images to be shot in the desert is golden hour, shortly after sunrise and just before
sunset. The soft shadows, warm tones, and passable contrast can transform the desert into a
brilliant wonderland.
If you're going to be doing a white desert safari, plan your shots with golden hour and the surreal
chalk-white formations in mind. The formations will look fantastic under soft warm light.
2. Use a Polarizing Filter
A polarizing filter is a useful accessory for photographing the desert. It limits the glare from the sand
and enhances the blue color of the sky, and when you register the contrast and color in your
photographs, they have a richness that makes the desert landscape more lively and dramatic. This is
especially useful for your photographs of the Siwa Oasis and White Desert tours, which will take you
to interesting places with each seen in the same context but in contrasting locations from palm-filled
oases to stripped-down white rock.
3. Include Scale and Perspective
It can be difficult to understand just how massive the desert is through a photographer's lens.
Adding people, camels, or vehicles helps to understand the scale of the scene. It helps people
understand distance and depth.
As an example, when you are out on the white desert safari, placing your subject (a fellow traveler?)
next to one of the enormous rock formations will help your group understand the scale of the
formations. It's a powerful image with a sense of story.
4. Play with Shadows and Silhouettes
The dunes and monotonous rock formations will give birth to visual shapes and shadows, creating all
sorts of interesting compositions as the sun moves lower in the sky. Use these shapes and shadows
in your art. There are also opportunities to create silhouettes, consisting entirely of outlines while
putting subjects against the setting sun.
In the case of a White Desert safari, the shapes of mushroom-like rocks and their unique shadows
that fall while filtered through shadows would make interesting subjects in either black-and-white or
abstract photography.
Wrap It Up
A Siwa Oasis and White Desert tour is more than an adventure, it's an experience in opposites. You
will travel from peaceful springs filled with palm trees to the otherworldly scenery of the White
Desert, and lots of beautiful things in between. You will have plenty of moments worthy of a photo,
and if you understand your surroundings and prepare appropriately, you should be able to return
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home with a gallery full of amazing pictures that depict the experience of your journey through the
desert.
Therefore, pull out your camera, clean your lens, and prepare to capture the wild beauty of the
Egyptian desert.
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• Phone - +201143133000
• Email - info@whitedeserttravel.com
• Address - El Kaser, Baharya Oasis, Giza, Egypt
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