The desert of the Bardenas Reales, a photo trip to the north of Spain, in the region of Navarra.
A stay imagined to learn and perfect your photography skills and devote yourself entirely to your passion for beautiful images.
A photo trip open to all, designed for all levels.
This photo trip to Spain has many surprises in store for you. Accompanied by Laurent Bastide, training photographer and founder of the agency. Photo workshops at sunrise and sunset, discover the waterholes and the amazing scenery of the Bardenas desert, in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere between each participant. Sumptuous landscapes, spectacular geological formations, Mediterranean vegetation almost African, and a typical fauna of the arid and steppe areas...
Desert of the Bardenas Reales: video excerpt
Where?
In the desert of the Bardenas Reales, Spain in the region of Navarra.
A beautiful escape in wild landscapes, worthy of the Great American West, without leaving Europe!
A beautiful escape in wild landscapes, worthy of the Great American West, without leaving Europe!
You will like, the night photo sessions and the initiation to Lightpainting.
Supervised by a 100% training photographer available, to help you in the field, to meet your expectations and not to take his own photos.
You'll love to set foot on an almost unknown destination, guided by a photographer who knows the terrain inside out!
You will enjoy access to the most remote sites, the privilege of being alone in these unique landscapes.
Photo analysis and critique sessions, post-processing, video course materials.
Charming, spacious and perfectly equipped accommodation for maximum comfort, at the very entrance to the Bardenas Reales Desert Natural Park.
How
Transfers by privatized minibus from Toulouse airport.
Accommodated in a privatized villa, full board (excluding personal consumption), in the village of Arguedas, at the gates of the desert.
Journeys and transport on site included in privatized minibus.
Accommodated in a privatized villa, full board (excluding personal consumption), in the village of Arguedas, at the gates of the desert.
Journeys and transport on site included in privatized minibus.
A complete photo training in a small group of 4 to 6 people maximum in order to promote group cohesion and to ensure optimal availability of the photographer trainer.
Post-processing and field shooting courses.
Joining a private Facebook group to answer your questions and track your progress.
PDF supports, videos of the post-processing carried out during the course with your photos, will be given to you at the end of this photo training.
All this to make you live a beautiful experience on a human scale!
With who?
Laurent BASTIDE,
Founder of the agency Voyages-Photos.com, I am a freelance photographer, but above all whole and passionate!
I don't really want to specialize, so I touch everything, I like to work on different projects in parallel, architecture, furniture, portraits, landscapes...
Passionate about drawing and images, I have an atypical background, I first went to a school of graphic communication before reorienting myself in computer science.
As an engineer in data backup and storage, I have the sudden urge to add an ingredient to my travels and various hikes.
It is through photography that I will find a new way to look at the world, to take the time to observe, to pay more attention to details, as if I had decided to open a door that has been closed for too long...
Desert of the Bardenas Reales: practical information
Required level
- Beginner accepted
- Photo course for all levels
Desert of the Bardenas Reales photo trip, who can participate?
Your photo trip in the Bardenas Desert is for all levels, beginners, amateurs or experts are welcome.
This photo course, for beginners is an opportunity to learn about landscape photography with a photographer who is available to teach and train the participants, and to establish links with the other participants for possible future photo outings after the trip.
For photographers with a good level and good notions, this is a great way to get the best results. photo trip to Spain is an opportunity to take a leap in your progress and discover new photo techniques.
Includes
- A complete photo training
- Framing by a professional photographer
- Video course materials
- Your Transfer from Toulouse Airport
- Transport on site in private vehicle with driver
- Accommodation in double room
- Full board
- Evening meal day 1
- Meals from day 2 to day 5
- Breakfast from day 2 to day 6
Not included
- Thefts
- Your journey to Toulouse
- Meals day 1 and day 6
- Tips, drinks and extras
- Activities not mentioned in the programme
Photo equipment
Pack your photo bag:
Bardenas Reales Desert
- 1 camera with Manual, Shutter Speed and Aperture modes
- 1 wide-angle lens
- 1 stable tripod
- 3 batteries
- 1 charger
- 1 headlamp
- 1 remote control (long exposure, circumpolar...)
- Your good mood 🙂
Optional:
- 1 Zoom or telephoto lens
- 1 rain cover for your camera
- 1 filter ND1000
- 1 GND filter
Clothes:
Warm clothes for the morning, night photo sessions.
Lightweight shoes for walking.
Gloves, a jacket or a windbreaker.
Bardenas Reales Desert: your itinerary
Desert of the Bardenas Reales: the formations
Techniques
We discover together the basics to learn how to master your digital camera, Reflex, Hybrid, Bridge, Compact and Photophone, with a simple vocabulary accessible to all.
Retouching & development
Essential to sublimate your photos, we will work together on the post-processing of your photos on Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.
The development and retouching workshops are progressive, how to correct minor defects, how to develop at least his photos with Lightroom.
The development and retouching workshops are progressive, how to correct minor defects, how to develop at least his photos with Lightroom.
Removing large defects, or elements such as pylons, electric cables, cars. Enhance light and atmosphere with Lightroom, create a vignette, direct the eye, HDR. Layers, masks with Photoshop. The Blending manual, how to merge 2 atmospheres a few minutes or hours apart and even how to change the sky.
Theories
Technique is not everything, we will also work on our eyes and our different points of view to improve the framing and the compositions. An original photo is above all a thoughtful photo!
Includes
Course materials in PDF format, video course materials, your retouching and post-processing sessions are entirely recorded in FULL-HD and sent to you at the end of your stay.
You stay in contact with the photographer via the agency's private group, we remain at your disposal, we will encourage you to continue to exchange with your trainer, about the photos and your future treatments, once you return home.
You stay in contact with the photographer via the agency's private group, we remain at your disposal, we will encourage you to continue to exchange with your trainer, about the photos and your future treatments, once you return home.
Desert of the Bardenas Reales: video testimonials
Desert of the Bardenas Reales: your program
From Toulouse, transfer from the airport and departure for the Bardenas Reales Desert in Spain.
The appointment is fixed at 10:00 am at Toulouse International Airport, for a departure in the same time.
We will arrive at the end of the afternoon in Arguedas, Spain, where we will take possession of our accommodation for the duration of our stay.
The Fairy Chimney or El Cabezo de Castildetierra
After this long journey, we will go to stretch our legs on the ground, and more exactly on the most emblematic landscape of the Bardenas Desert, the Castildetierra, castle of earth in French.
Impossible to make a stay in the Bardenas Desert without immortalizing the inevitable fairy chimney, emblem of the Bardenas Reales Desert!
This pyramid of natural formation, sculpted over thousands of years by the greatest of builders, the time...
We will go hunting for beautiful lights in the famous Badlands of the Bardenas (translate as bad land).
A perfect opportunity to highlight the many cracks in the floor, find natural lines to guide the eye in your most beautiful compositions.
Attention: breakfast (included) will be taken at sunrise on the way back from the photo session, remember to take cereal bars with you, dried fruit, slow sugars... to prevent morning cravings.
After a 45-minute approach walk, we will reach the jewel of the desert, a set of canyons and ravines with incredible shapes!
Over time, erosion has shaped these limestone and clay reliefs, bringing iron and many other minerals to the surface, giving them their unique shapes and colours.
Attention: breakfast (included) will be taken at sunrise on the way back from the photo session, remember to take cereal bars with you, dried fruit, slow sugars... to prevent morning cravings.
Always ahead of time, at night we will go to the Troll Saddle, this very graphic point of view, will allow us to make a final photo session.
Return to the accommodation for breakfast.
Post-processing session
Sunset over El Rallon
Attention: breakfast (included) will be taken at sunrise on the way back from the photo session, remember to take cereal bars with you, dried fruit, slow sugars... to prevent morning cravings.
Over time, erosion has shaped these limestone and clay reliefs, bringing iron, and many other minerals to the surface, giving these shapes and colors so singular!
Before dawn, we will reach a water point overhung by one of the many natural pyramids present in the Bardenas Desert.
A very photogenic spot, a perfect place to realize a photo workshop based on long exposure.
Attention: breakfast (included) will be taken at sunrise on the way back from the photo session, remember to take cereal bars with you, dried fruit, slow sugars... to prevent morning cravings.
Before dawn, we will reach a water point overhung by one of the many natural pyramids present in the Bardenas Desert.
A very photogenic spot, a perfect place to realize a photo workshop based on long exposure.
Return to the accommodation to have a refreshing breakfast.
We'll leave our accommodation at about 10:00 a.m.
Return and transfer to Toulouse.
Transfer to Toulouse International Airport.
Departure and transfer to Toulouse International Airport, about 6h30 drive (depending on road traffic).
We will arrive at Toulouse airport at the end of the afternoon (under normal traffic conditions).
End of your deserted Bardenas photo trip.
Bardenas Reales Desert and after?
We stay in touch, via the agency's private group, we remain at your disposal, we will encourage you to continue to exchange with your trainer, about photos and your future treatments, once you return home.
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