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Carla Monaco

Today I shot with Andrew Remotely his home to mine. I have shot with Andrew many times in the past but this as our first remote shoot.

I am so pleased with ow it all went, Andrew was great throughout the shoot, gave me clear communications which was very helpful when shooting remotely and he was also patient too.

We had a super sun shoot and covered quite a range of styles in the 3hr shoot, portraits, fashion, art nude, fashion nude and even some film noir in the last half hour.

A great 3hr shoot with Andrew and I hope we can do it all again soon whether it be in person or remotely.

Thanks Andrew for a fab shoot.

Carla

LeahMeraki

Had a remote shoot with Andrew recently which went really well, it was a shame my camera battery ran out and cut our time short but we still managed to get some great images and use various areas of my bedroom throughout the 2 hours we did shoot.

I would highly recommend working with him and looking forward to another shoot sometime!

Natasha ПΣӨП

I've worked with Andrew lots of times now! The most recent being a remote shoot. Andrew is easy going and good to talk to. He had lots of ideas and we worked together to create them! He was very patient with me getting to grips with the software and we have another booked already. Highly recommended!

Keira Lavelle

First ever time working with Andrew - and I guarantee you, not the last! :D In fact we have more plans to work together already... How’s that for “hitting it off!”

We worked together remotely for a half day, and seriously: never had a half day flown so much! The location was a private studio and joint office location that I have access to - we had discussed ideas and Andrew sent a moodboard across so we were leaning towards this sort of environment as a starting point and then would see how we got on/if we had time to go to my home and take some shots too. As it happened: we filled the whole time effortlessly by bouncing off one-another and just never getting short of inspiration. :D I was really excited before we’d even started shooting to be fair: since the moodboard and some of the stuff we chatted about involved bright pop-tastic colours and styles with mad shapes (right up my street!) Plus the fact that Andrew is such a friendly and easy going person - he welcomes the models input and it was just really nice generating that good working rapport. :)

We tuned in with Zoom and the controls and Andrew got the hang of everything pretty quickly! Yes the model has to lug the lights around and set the scene and all: but the opportunity is there for photographers to make a shoot their own when they work, which is exactly what Andrew did. :) He got into the rhythm of observing the scene and paying attention to detail - offering direction too when he saw a nice pose opportunity. Shooting everything from zany fashion in the office to pretty artistic stuff by the window... And then going crazy with props and colours in the studio. Yes we had a good un - Andrew managing the settings and changes of environment brilliantly to get the images looking absolutely fabulous look plush! Everything about this shoot was just good... No wonder we got another in the diary pretty quick. :P

On top of all else: Andrew is a lovely gentleman. I may have only met him “virtually” but still: his communications before the shoot were on-point, he was courteous and respectful from start to finish, and just generally very easy to get along with. :) We did a reasonable amount of chit-chatting as we worked which is one of the lovely things about being able to do this in the pandemic - being able to have a blast with other human beings and remember that they still exist! :D

Thank you bundles Andrew, I thoroughly enjoyed our first shoot and are so much looking forward to rocking it with the next!

Keira

Gia_

Andrew and I worked on our 5th shoot together, at Fine and DanDee studios, just before lockdown restrictions for Berkshire were tightened.

I'm happy we were able to get our shoot in just before, Andrew is a friendly and familiar face by now and always a pleasure to work with! I am always comfortable when working with him and he allows me to play about with poses, as well as giving input when he sees fit.

We have created some cool images over the last few months, shooting on location and at a range of different studios.

I definitely would not hesitate to recommend Andrew to other models. :)

Irida

Yet another great shoot with Andrew from neon dreams in Hook. As always very professional and easy to work with !

Andrew is on my very highly recommended list !

Looking forward to our next shoot :)

Natasha ПΣӨП

I've worked with Andrew at Neon Dreams a number of times now, also having met him many more whilst he has been hiring the studio. He is always polite, respectful and has ideas. He is generally open to ideas too and we always have a fun and productive shoot :) highly recommended.

Irida

Yet another fantastic shoot with Andrew ! This time we shot from Fine and Dandee in Wokingham ! As always a great experience working together . very productive shoot and a very professional easy to work with photographer :)

Looking forward to our next shoot already :)

Debbie_Leema

Another fun location shoot with Andrew yesterday and thankfully the weather held out for us too.

We shot a bit of fashion, implied and art nude.

Unfortunately there were a lot of dog walkers out yesterday so we wasn’t able to get too many shots without me having to quickly hide :) but Andrew seemed happy with the shots we got - that’s all that matters.

I cannot recommend Andrew enough, very kind, considerate and friendly.

Thank you a wonderful morning - hope to see you again soon

Debs x

Riza

Had a really wonderful shoot with Andrew this morning.

His pre-shoot communication was excellent and i had a good idea of what to bring. The location he suggested was lovely and he had fantastic ideas.

Andrew really gives 110%, he was friendly, polite, gave brilliant direction and knew what he wanted to get with each shot. we managed to get through several outfits and got so many fantastic shots.

it was a bit chilly today and i really appreciated how mindful he was of my comfort.

It was an absolute pleasure and i truly hope to work with him again soon.

Amelia Jayne

Met up with Andrew for a morning location shoot in reading, very polite and has amazing ideas. Beautiful location, great communication before and whilst shooting. Got through a lot of different outfits and sets. Can’t wait to see the images! And shoot again soon. Really enjoyed myself! Thank you

Gia_

I had my fourth shoot with Andrew recently and he was great to work with, as always.

Pre comms were very clear as usual and he told me exactly what to bring in terms of clothing and shoes for the ideas he had.

We shot at Neon Dreams studio again and from what I can see so far we got some really cool images. We got to shoot in their shower room, as well as against other backgrounds available at the studio and we got some really interesting shots from there.

I would definitely recommend Andrew, he is a pleasure to work with and gets some great shots in the process of course. :)

Natasha ПΣӨП

I enjoyed my shoot with Andrew at Neon Dreams, he is a lovely man- polite and respectful. He explained what he wanted to achieve and we figured out the lighting together. We got wonderful shots and had an overall enjoyable and relaxed shoot. I look forward to seeing him again :) highly recommended.

Irida

Yet another fantastic shoot with Andrew , this time from Paul's studio in Reading .

very productive and fun shoot as always !

We worked on a series of art nude to fashion to lingerie doing different lights and using different backrounds ! All th photos on the back of the camera looked amazing !

Very Highly recommended as always :)

Debbie_Leema

Andrew is a joy to work with, I cannot recommend him enough!

I think this is our 3rd shoot now and I'm very much looking forward to many more collaborations together.

Thank you Andrew for yet another fantasic shoot.

Highly recommended by me.

Debs x

Blue Smoothy

Another fantastic shoot with Andrew at Neon studios. He is always so lovely and comes up with lots of ideas.

Hope to work together again soon!

Thanks x

AshleyAshton

This was my second shoot with andy @Paul's studio in reading. Andy is also extremely polite,patient and respectful towards his model. He brings great effort to his shoots and works hard to achieve good lighting.

Andy is a real gem and a great person and I openly reccomend him to other models and I hope we work again sometime in the future.

Thanks

Ashley

Gia_

I've had 2 more shoots with Andrew since our first one a few weeks back and he is an absolute pleasure to work with!

He make me feel comfortable the whole time we are shooting and he really creates some great imagery, it helps that he is encouraging while shooting!

I would definitely work with him again and I recommend him to others to work with too. :)

Irida

This was my 5th shoot with Andrew over the years :)

As always professional and easy to work with !

This time we worked from an outdoor location near Oxford , the photos looked great on the back of the camera and can't wait to see them on here :)

Highly recommended of course :)

Neon Dreams Studio

Andrew was professional, polite, respectful and we look forward to seeing him again at Neon Dreams Studio :)