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Flawless service, an outstanding professional! Couldn't have made a better choice for our photoshoot. Petra turned out to be not just hugely talented but also a wonderful person and true professional. The photos he delivered are simply gorgeous — capturing every emotion, perfect light, and those spontaneous details that make a shot unique. What impressed us most was how he handled the unexpected — bad weather threatened to ruin things, but he reorganized on the fly and found alternatives. 100% recommended!
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About Petra
Petra's style
Unposed images - I love capturing moments and emotions which are natural, whether dramatic, happy or documentary style.
Posed images - I also know how to pose my models into eye-catching fashion, portrait and magazine looking shots.
Light is my best friend - I use the natural light to my advantage and know how to create stunning images even at night or using various city lights.
Never ending development - I believe that photography is a constant learning process, there is always something new to discover, to try and to create. For me it is also about recreating and enhancing reality. The lens and sensor of the camera are able to capture moments in a more beautiful way than is visible to the human eye.
What Petra loves
Being a summer and heat loving person, I consider Dubai the perfect place to live. Beach season is all year round.
I am always up for any adventure, trying out new food, new sports and new hobbies.
Petra's favourite photo spots
Dubai Downtown with all its lights and reflecting water surfaces.
Hotel Madinat Jumeirah, which has nice water cannals and is a combination of tradition and luxury in an authentic recreation of an ancient Arabic market place.
Deira Old Souq - you have to visit the place where the entire city has emerged from. Take the traditional boat across the creek, walk the spice and textile market, and please your eyes at the Gold Market.
Beaches - Dubai is a coastal city, built along a streak of beautiful beaches and as if that wasn't enough, there are some artificial beaches and islands.
Dubai Marina - luxury yachts and the waterfront surrounded by beautiful skyscrapers. This is a great place for an evening walk.
Zabeel park - if you are looking for some greenery in your photos.
Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi - architectural spectacle, which comes to its full beauty from sunset onwards.
In case you are staying in any of the many beautiful and huge resorts, these will also offer a great backdrop.
All of these places will look their best at sunset and sunrise.
More about Petra
Petra is a Dubai-based photographer whose work blends natural, documentary-style moments with polished, magazine-quality posed shots, always aimed at making people feel comfortable, confident, and beautiful in front of the lens. A passionate traveller who has visited more than 65 countries, she brings a globally informed eye to her sessions and a deep command of natural and city light, capable of creating striking images well after dark. Her range makes her a strong fit for couples, proposals, families, and solo travellers alike.
Home Base
Petra is based in Dubai and considers it the perfect place to live, a summer-and-heat person in a city with a year-round beach season. That local familiarity shows in how she works its signature backdrops, from Dubai Downtown with its lights and reflecting water surfaces to Madinat Jumeirah, where the Venetian-style waterways and wind-tower architecture recreate an ancient Arabic marketplace, and the Deira Old Souq, where the city first emerged, reached by a traditional abra across the Creek past the spice, textile, and gold markets. She knows these spots look their best at sunrise and sunset, and times sessions accordingly.Extended Coverage
Beyond Downtown and Old Dubai, Petra covers the Dubai Marina waterfront with its yachts and skyscrapers for an evening walk, the city's natural and artificial beaches and islands, the open desert for sessions with no observers around, and Zabeel Park when a shoot calls for greenery. She also travels to Abu Dhabi for the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, an architectural spectacle that reaches its full beauty from sunset onwards, and works comfortably against the backdrops of Dubai's large resorts for clients staying on property.What to Expect
Working with Petra, you can expect a session where she puts you at ease and captures both unposed emotion and deliberately styled, eye-catching frames, using light as her primary tool, whether at golden hour or among the city's night-time reflections. She speaks fluent English, German, Slovak, and Czech, and understands some Spanish, which makes her an easy fit for international travellers. She is comfortable across couples, proposal, family, and solo sessions, and her instinct for sunrise and sunset timing pairs naturally with spots like Burj Park, Madinat Jumeirah, and the Lahbab dunes covered in the Dubai photo guides.Guides for your Dubai photoshoot
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