References for Richard Byrne ◙

Carla Monaco

Second time working with Smiling lenses on my recent trip to Dublin last weekend. Such a lovely person and great photographer to work with. Smiling lenses is super friendly, respectful and professional.

Thank you again for another brilliant shoot.

Best

Carla :)

LucyH.

I worked with Smiling lenses in group shoots . He is very friendly and funny man, I always felt very comfortable which is too important to me. Communication was great and I got some great pictures.

I can highly recommend Smiling Lenses to other models.

Thank you again

Rebecca Tun

I had a fab shoot with this guy yesterday at the camera club studio in Dublin alongside Andy D10. He was fun to work with, friendly and respectful, easygoing buy gave good direction. He took lots of great photos and showed me them along the way. I had a great time and felt very at ease. Happily recommended by me to other models. :-)

Keira Lavelle

I had my first shoot with this lovely gent during my latest tour of Ireland... He and Peter Knead booked me for a two-to-one session at Edge photography studio in Dublin for an afternoon. It was Richard I spoke with throughout all the planning side of things as we got the shoot arranged and his communications were perfect! There were times when he just needed to "okay" things with Peter and the studio owner but he always got back to me promptly and we had confirmed it in no time at all. This is such a big help for travelling models, especially when you could have 3 conversations all going on at once and you're trying to carefully plan a trip. He was also clear and concise about what he wanted to achieve image-wise so that I could pack accordingly when tackling my luggage weight restrictions for the flights over. :P

On the day, the shoot was a blast! Richard and Peter work very well together teamed up and took it in turns to get quality images with the ideas of their choice. It was such a fun crack shooting some of the concepts and putting our own twist on it, Richard had a great eye for the shots which inspired him and really put thought into making our versions look mega.

He kindly let me see the back of the camera as we went along and the images that we were creating were really beautiful. :) He also kindly shared the edits with me after the shoot, it's so exciting when these pop up because you get to see the fruits of your teamwork and labour in full glory! Stunning results!

A really lovely person, courteous as can be with a heart of gold. We hit off a great rapport from the moment the shoot started and did our fair share of chin-wagging, tea/coffee-drinking in-between work which really made the flow upbeat but relaxed too. I recommend him very highly and really look forward to hopefully getting the chance to work together during my next/future visits to Ireland! :D Thank you so much Richard!

Keira x

Rachelle Summers

Worked with Smiling Lenses on a group shoot in Ireland.

He was incredibly respectful, gave direction when needed and was a pleasure to work with :D

Happily recommended by me!

MKmodel

I had worked with Smiling Lenses, always good arrangement and planning, good communication,very friendly, feel comfortable and easy to work with. Highly recommend and always happy meeting, thank you :)

Blondiekitty

I had the pleasure of working with smiling lenses yesterday at a group shoot and it was an absolute pleasure. He made sure I was comfortable at all times and had wonderful ideas. He was very easy to work with and I would highly reccommend him to any model. I look forward to working together again soon ☺ thank you! 😊

Angel.

I worked with Smiling Lenses at a workshop held by Ross Mcelvie. He was professional, friendly and chatty throughout and got some wonderful results!!!

I would highly recommend working with him and would love to if I am in the area again!