Three hours from Cairo
Fayoum: the Lakes and the White Dunes
The furthest of the three and the strangest-looking. Pale dunes running down to still water, with a horizon that does not look like anywhere else in Egypt. A full day rather than a morning, and the photographs are the reason people take it.
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The price
Why this one is the most expensive
It is the same photoshoot. The same dress, the same assistant, the same 30 to 45 minutes in front of the camera, the same hundred-plus colour-graded photographs afterwards. Nothing about the session is larger.
What is larger is the day around it. Fayoum is about three hours from central Cairo, so there is roughly six hours of driving wrapped around the shoot, and the car and the driver are yours for all of it. The other two locations give you your afternoon back. This one does not.
What you get for the day is a landscape neither of the others can offer: pale sand instead of gold, and water in the frame. Dark and jewel colours read completely differently against it, and the panoramas are the widest of the three.
Why here
What this location gives you
- A landscape with water in it, which neither of the other two has.
- Pale sand instead of gold, so dark and jewel colours read completely differently here.
- The widest panoramas of the three.
Getting there. Approximately three hours from central Cairo. White sand dunes, waterfalls and lakes.
The look
How it photographs
Surreal pale formations, luminous sand, water where the real portfolio supports it, strong silhouettes and wide desert panoramas.
Included at $349 per person
Everything in the price
Door-to-door transportation
Collected from your hotel or address and brought back afterwards. Nothing to arrange and nothing to find.
100+ colour-graded photographs
Not a handful of selects. More than a hundred edited frames from one session.
One flying dress, yours for the session
Rented from the collection for the shoot, in the colour you choose. Included in the price. Choosing one does not change what you pay.
An assistant for the dress
One person whose whole job is the fabric: holding the train, throwing it, keeping it out of the sand between frames.
A 30 to 45 minute photoshoot
Directed throughout. You do not need to know how to pose. That is the photographer's job and the dress does the rest.
Delivered in 6 to 10 days
Your edited gallery, within six to ten days of the shoot.
Your dress
12 colours, all included
Choose when you enquire. Every dress in the collection is included in the price, so the choice does not change what you pay. We note it as your preference and tell you before the day if it is unavailable.
There are also 5 traditional gawns for a partner in the frame.
Optional
Extras for this shoot
| Extra | Price |
|---|---|
| Light makeup | from $35 |
| Full makeup | $45 |
| Hairdresser | from $45 |
| Two Instagram Reels | $25 |
| An additional dress | $99 |
| Own or customise a special dress | $249 |
| Accessories | On request |
| Traditional attire for men | On request |
Nothing here is charged by this website. No payment is taken on this website. Nothing on these pages charges a card, and we will never ask you to type card details into a form here.
Questions
About Fayoum
How long does the day take?
The brochure puts Fayoum at about three hours from central Cairo each way, so this one is a day rather than a morning. The photoshoot itself is the same 30 to 45 minutes.
Why is it more than the other two?
Distance. It is the same shoot and the same inclusions, with six hours of driving around it.
Payment and changes. Deposits are non-refundable, and can usually be moved to another date or held as credit rather than lost. The exact notice periods and charges are confirmed in writing when we hold your date. No payment is taken on this website. Nothing on these pages charges a card, and we will never ask you to type card details into a form here.
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