References for CalmNudes

Jenni JJ

do I recommend? oh yes! bloody marvelous is all I can say!

Enjoyed a super shoot with james at my home studio. He's just so much fun to work with, mainly because he didn't mind that I bossed him around!

Great conversation, very respectful and lets you get your creative on!

What more could we want?!

Thank you so much

Jenni

Jenni JJ

I adore shooting with James and was so happy he came back for a second round. He has a wonderful manner and makes you feel happy and relaxed and his shoots are always a great collaboration. we work and work until we are happy and then we work some more. its a lot of fun. hes one of those people who brings out the best in you by allowing you to feel free to contribute and suggest and its such a pleasure to work with him.

highly recommeneded

thank you so much

Jenni

Lila

James and I worked together on one of Thomas Holm's recent workshops focusing on nudity and erotica. It can start to feel quite samey when working back-to-back with multiple photographers but James brought his own flair to the shoot, incorporating some different props to capture a different edge to my physique that elevated it higher than the standard "power poses".

Very kind and professional with a focused mind to creating something incredible.

Lila

♥ Chiara Elisabetta

Wonderful shoot with CalmNudes last week at my boho garden location in West Sussex.. I'm so happy we finally got around to shooting after a long time trying to compare our very busy complex diaries, and it was absolutely worth the wait.

J has a lovely calm personality, yet warm, intelligent and chatty.. we bounced ideas around and got some super shots!

I hope we get to work together again before I leave the country.. thanks for such a great day!

Angel Black UK

James and I arranged a shoot during my Windsor Tour, and from start to finish he was a pleasure to work with. His pre shoot communications were excellent, well thought out and properly planned, which makes for a super productive shoot!

Upon arrival we had a short tour of the property, a cup of tea and we were off, shooting in various rooms. The back of the camera shots were amazing and I definitely can't wait to see some edits.

He's clearly very comfortable with a camera, and has no problems adjusting the settings throughout the shoot. With a keen eye to detail we made sure there were no distracting items in the shots, removing any clutter there may have been to stop James having to do it in post processing!

I'd recommend working with James and would happily do so in the future.

Thankyou for a fabulous shoot!

Angel x

NausicaaYami

I shot with J on my last Studio Day at Auraphotographic in Northampton, I really enjoyed working with him!

I liked the fact that he came with no specific ideas, it was our first shoot and I really appreciated that he focused on me as person and model instead of a mannequin, trying to reproduce something already seen on my portfolio or a shot in his mind. I love to shoot with the flow (especially if it's the first time), sometimes photographers are too focused on take "that" shot, that they forget to look who they have in front of the camera. I personally think that J caught the right attitude to have for a 2 hours slot during studio days. It's more an opportunity to know each other and try to "tune in to the same frequencies". And I would say that we did, and had wonderful results!

Besides of beeing a lovely and enjoyable person to work with, J is extremely skilled and talented, he has his own style, and he took sooo many great shots effortlessy.

So I absolute recommend working or collaborating with him!

Thank you J, looking forward to working with you again soon!

Rebecca Perry

What a pleasure it was to collaborate with James

Prior to shooting pre-communication was great and everything was so easy to organised

During the shoot James gives such a relaxed atmosphere to shoot in. I loved that I could just flow through poses and get on with the shoot.

James is also really good at suggesting ideas and trying new and different things. We got a variety of so many different great looks and themes and produced so many sets during our shoot together.

More than recommended to all Models! Such a creatively interesting, intelligent and lovely photographer and person

Thank you for another fantastic shoot James

Best Wishes

Rebecca Perry

www.rebeccaperry.net

Miss Diamond Sparkle 💕☯

Really loved working with James...

James is really easy to be around, enthusiastic, professional, respectful and alot of fun...

We started the shoot with low key lighting and nailed it from the first shot...I am not even exaggerating...We had the perfect light and pose from the word go...James is very good at photography and his lighting skills are incredible...

I would definitely work with James again...

Thank you for booking me...

PaleEnglishRose

I had my first shoot with the amazing James, and I can’t recommend him highly enough! First of all - completely my fault for leaving poor James without a reference for so long - sorry James!!!

We booked a 3 hour shoot at my home back in September and I knew from first communication that James would be easy and lovely to work with and I was right! James is a true gentleman through and through, with loads of passion and enthusiasm for photography, some really amazing ideas and a great eye!

He is also kind, polite, really friendly and easy to get along with and our 3 hour shoot flew by!

Very highly recommended indeed and I cannot wait to shoot again (I just hope James feels the same! :-) )

Irida

Wow ! So happy to have now worked with James ! James and I worked so well together , from click one it was great photo after and even better one !

James is so easy to shoot with , creative and with a true passion about photography! I had a blast shooting together !

Hope to work together again soon and I am happy to highly recommend to all models !

Thank you very much

Irida

Elodie Rose

I shot with James for the first time at the Kempston Studios and what fun we had.

James is so much fun to be around, he is funny, chatty and a wizard with the camera. He put me at total ease through the shoot.

We got through many styles and costume changes and certainly made the most of our surroundings. What I saw from the back of the camera made me very happy indeed and I can’t wait to see what we created.

Id love to work with James again and would recommend him highly to any model.

Thank you for a great day. X

🎞 Kempston Studio [Studio Hire, Bedford] 🎞

Fabulous to have James in the studio today, after a quick look around at the available sets James was quickly onto what area he wanted to use first and directed myself at lighting arrangement he required, fine adjustments were made and the images looked great on the back of James's camera.

This was repeated with the other sets used and each time James was courteous and relaxed, helping to move furniture and producing some great work.

Happy to recommend James and really hope to see him again very soon.

LottiiRose

Calm nudes attended a event at Alastairs curills.

He turned up on time was chatty with the group and was great to work with.

It was a really fun event, thanks for joining :)

Rose Magdalene Child

It had been a long time since myself and James had shot together, but we arranged a duo shoot with my partner Leon at NLS studio. All pre shoot comms were smooth and prompt leading up to the shoot. We were really looking forward to it as it was our second shoot after the lockdown.

James is such a lovely guy, so friendly, easy to chat to, he's extremely respectful, complimentary of myself and Leon as models and our posing abilities.

It was one of those rare days where EVERYTHING works. You can't seem to get a bad shot. From the get go that's how it was. And honestly we had an absolute blast. It was relaxed yet we all had high energy and so the poses kept flowing as did our conversations too :)

Honestly the best shoot in a long long time, look forward to the next one already! Thank you again James, Tillie x

Ariel Taylor

JAMES JAMES JAMES. What an absolute STAR!! First time shooting with this wonderful gentleman down at Natural Light Spaces, kicking off my tour in the BEST way possible! 4 hours went by way too quickly, but we covered a lot! We did all implied work, incorporating voiles into aerial hoop and dance shots. James has a great eye for detail and fabulous timing. Both of us working together to achieve the best we could which is how I love to shoot. Stellar shots all round, I cannot wait to see the final results! Other than being a great photographer, James is so polite and incredibly respectful, making me feel so at ease at all times. Shooting implied nude on a spinning hoop doesn't always go to plan, but James totally made me feel comfortable and deleted any images I wasn't happy with there and then. James has a beautifully cheerful demeanour and was always giving me great feedback with what we were creating :) He is incredibly appreciative and has a level of respect that is rare to find in many photographers.

I would absolutely jump at the chance to shoot with James again :) Such a fun time, great human, fantabulous shoot! Thanks so much James :)

100 recommended and some!!

Amber Tutton

I had such a pleasure working with calmnudes (James) this week, he is above all a brilliant person, super good to talk to.. I felt relaxed throughout.. in good hands!

he was incredible with his lighting.. great with direction if needed.

super easy going and just a brilliant photographer! can't fault him

I hope to model for again soon

thanks for the best shoot

highly recommended!

Pippa.

It was great to meet and shoot with James at Rachelle Summers Manor event at the weekend, he gets bonus points for wearing a rum t shirt too!

We created some beautiful natural light images and I’m happy to recommend James to all :)

Rachelle Summers

James came along to my Summers Abroad UK Manor Event last weekend!

It had been SO long since I last saw him so it was really nice catching up and working together again! From what I saw on the back of the camera we got some awesome results too :)

Here's hoping we don't leave it as long next time!

Happily recommended by me :)

Summers Abroad

James attended our events for the first time last weekend when he joined our UK Manor Event.

We had a gorgeous manor home in the North Cotswolds that had lots of shooting opportunities both indoors and outdoors. Due to Covid-19 we had to separate the shooting areas and basically have a large game of Cluedo,with cleaning breaks in between, to make the event safe and within guidelines. James was very respectful of the social distancing and guidelines that we had to have in place.

He was unfortunately a little bit late due to reading our confirmation email wrong but thankfully it didn't stop him getting straight into it and getting some lovely images with the models attending :D He worked incredibly well alongside the photographer he was paired with and it was a pleasure to host him! He is more than welcome on any of our events in the future and we would happily recommend him :)

Alicia Black

I had a lovely shoot with James at my apartment today. He is a great photographer and I really loved what he captured. His style of images are very thoughtful and elegant with great angles. During the shoot we had a laugh and had a chat about various subjects including photography. I really enjoyed today's shoot, working with James was fun and I am looking forward to hopefully working more with him again in the future.

Thank you for a enjoyable shoot, Regards Alicia