Desert drone shoot
Ninety minutes in the dunes with a drone overhead — the long shadows of the ridges, your tracks across untouched sand — as photographs and a one-minute film.
- Starting from
- $450
- Duration
- 90 min
- You receive
- 20+ edited photos + 60 s aerial film
- Delivery
- Reels 3–5 days, films 2–3 weeks
Drone
What’s included
- 20 edited aerial photos
- 60-second aerial film
- Licensed operator, registered drone, flight approval arranged by us
- Photos within 48–72 hours, film within 2–3 weeks
Add to the booking
Bought with this shoot, never on their own. Fixed prices in US dollars.
4×4 desert transfer
Pick-up from your hotel in a 4×4 with a driver who knows the sand, out to untracked dunes and back after dark.
+$90
Portfolio
Desert drone shoot: portfolio
Frames from recent shoots, to plan yours against.
Where to book it
Book Desert drone shoot where you are staying
Available in 13 places across the UAE. Choose the one nearest your hotel — travel within it is included.
About this shoot
Why the desert is where drones work
- Starting from
- $450
- Duration
- 90 min
- Edited photos
- 20
- Video
- 60 s aerial film
- Places
- 13
The desert is the one landscape near Dubai where a drone has room: open sky, no towers, and sites far enough from the airports for flights to be approved. From the air the dunes show what cannot be seen from the ground — the ripple patterns, the curve of each ridge, a tiny figure or a 4×4 crossing it. Ninety minutes gives 20 edited aerial photographs and a 60-second aerial film from the same flights.
Timing decides it. Within an hour of sunrise or sunset the sun is low enough for every ripple to cast a shadow; at midday the dunes go flat and white from above. Protected areas, including the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve and parts of Al Marmoom, have their own rules on flying, so the site is chosen together with the flight approval — often around Al Qudra or on private camp land. Fine sand is hard on motors, so take-offs are from a mat, and strong afternoon wind can push a flight to the next morning.
Photos arrive within 48 to 72 hours and the film in 2 to 3 weeks.
Before you book
Frequently asked questions: Desert drone shoot
Why the desert, and who handles the drone permit?
Because it is where flying is realistic: well away from the airports and the city, the inland desert sits outside most of the restricted airspace that covers coastal Dubai. We obtain the flight approval from the aviation authority and fly our own registered drone with a licensed operator. Some protected areas, such as the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve, are closed to drones and outside visitors, so we choose dunes where both are allowed.
Can we combine it with a ground photoshoot?
Yes — book it alongside the desert or flying-dress photoshoot and both work the same sunset, the photographer on the sand and the operator on the ridge behind.
Next step
Plan your Desert drone shoot
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