References for Ade Davies Photography

Monika Lara Smith

I had my first ever shoot with Ade while we both attended a photographic event for disabled photographers in Barlow Studios and hopefully we will have another opportunity to work together! :)

Ade was sooo great to work with!! He is a great photographer, with creative ideas and really good skills. On top of that he’s so easy going, relaxed and has a brilliant sense of humour. Apart from us working hard, we kept on laughing and chatting as if we knew each other before :) definitely got on very well, time flew by and a full day of work felt much less than that.

Thank you and looking forward to working with you again:)!

Amber Tutton

I was lucky enough to have the chance to work with Ade on an event for the disabled photographers society

He was very kind and energetic, hugely complimenting and a dream to model for

He’d tell you the angles he was shooting from and the shot he was aiming for.. he had this raw talent about him

He’d use random techniques and play around, wouldn’t stick to the average easy shot options

And my gosh does it pay off

The images he achieved on a day when we had only 45 minutes in small groups I don’t even know!

He is classicly amazing

I’d love to highly recommend him

And we are already in talks of another shoot

Can’t wait

Absolutely buzzing

Highly recommended by me :)

Cariad Celis

I have been lucky to work with Ade a few times now and each and every time I come away smiling. I seriously love working with this true gent! He captures a true essence of who a model is and takes time to get the right image. I real inspiration to models and photographers alike.

Thank you for another awesome shoot and I look forward to working with you again soon :)

Highly recommended!

Em Theresa

Ade and I have shot together a few times now, and I can't recommend him any more highly. He is an excellent photographer and a really friendly kind and professional person so I always look forward to my slots shooting with him at DPS events. The edits I've seen are lovely, really making the most of the classy venue (Pipewell Hall). If you get a chance to shoot with Ade definitely don't miss out, hopefully we can work together again soon too! Thanks a million Ade you're a real gentleman!

Vivian Blue

I had my first shoot with Ade on a studio day at Barlow studios. Ade was professional and friendly throughout the day. He had some great idea and produced some truly stunning portrait shots, he made me feel comfortable when shooting with him and I can happily recommend him. Hope to work together again in the future, thanks,

Viv

Cariad Celis

I had the luxury of working with this talented photographer once again and he did not disappoint. We were on a group shoot and just as Jessica said in her reference he loves to put his own stamp on his images. We got the chance to shoot something a little different from the rest of the group and wow! To say I am happy with the results is an understatement!

Ade is a real joy to work with, his creativity, friendly nature and skill are just a few to mention as to why you should work with this gent :)

Thank you Ade for another fabulous shoot, I look forward to working with you again soon!

Highly recommend!

Em Theresa

Ade and I shot together once again, at a recent groupshoot. Just as before he was always on hand to help out with the other photographers, as he knows his stuff lighting-wise! and looked after myself and the other models while we were in the shoot environment. When shooting me himself he gave excellent direction once more, and again focussed a bit on expressive portraits which I love shooting :) Very much recommend Ade to others and hope we can shoot together again soon!

Scarlet Jones said...

Got the opportunity to do a spot of shooting with Ade at a group shoot a few weeks back .

It was lovley to meet Ade and he was a great guy to work with .

Often groups shoots can be a bit well repetitive but Ade made sure that wasn't the case and put his own stamp on things . Ade shot some slightly different styles to other in the group and even teamed up with another photographer who worked with me on a few fashion orientated looks. This was a great as it gave me a bit of a break from doing the same old and well showed that he is creative and has his own mind .

Ade's passion and skill shined through and some of the results have been great .

Glad we got to have a brief but brilliant shoot . Thanks Jess x

Cariad Celis

I had the opportunity to work with Ade at a group shoot. I had seen his work beforehand and really wanted to work with him. It was such a lovely surprise to find out he was at this day.

You can tell a lot about a photographer who comes to a group shoot day and is selective about what he takes. I could see him watch as others worked and when we finally got a chance to shoot, it was totally different.

Ade really caught something so vastly different from everyone else. From the images I have seen, I feel like he caught the true essence of me, not the Cariad me but the real me..! I love them soo much, he really is a truly talented individual. The way he frames his shots, to the way he uses light and directs the shot was really refreshing. It was like every shot counts like in the black and white film days.

It was a real pleasure to work with his true gent, I really hope I get another chance to.

Thank you Ade!

Definitely recommended, if you get the chance to shoot with him do it!

Lizzie Bayliss

I had the pleasure of working with Ade for a second time recently and had an even more productive and creative shoot than the first. Ade has a great eye for beautiful lighting and composition, making my job as a model a doddle:)!

I can't really add anything to my last positive ref for Ade as he was absolutely delightful and professional.

I really hope to work with Ade again sometime soon, as he is a pleasure to work with.

Once again, highly recommended to all.

Best wishes,

Lizzie

Layla Jayne

I had a fantastic time shooting with Adrian at the group shoot 2 weeks ago! A great photographer with fantastic ideas, the Amazing images just kept coming, I look forward to working again together soon!

Elle J

I had the pleasure of working with Ade on a group event at Barlow Photographic Studios. He was the first photographer I work with and he is so talented. He taught me things about lighting and poses I didn't know and was really great with direction. He is friendly, a gentleman and professional. I really enjoyed working with him and I hope to work with him again soon. Would highly recommend him. Thanks Ade!

Lizzie Bayliss

I met Ade recently at a group event at Barlow Photographic Studio in Chesterfield.

Ade was really friendly and great to work with during the shoot. He was very helpful to other photographers trying to help them out when they had a problem with their cameras, and making positive suggestions throughout.

When I worked with Ade he was confident and creative, communicating his ideas and direction, as well as getting experimental with the lighting to get unique images. Ade has a friendly and positive attitude to his photography and an interesting and relaxed personality.

My only complaint is that I didn't get longer to work with him! I highly recommend Ade to all other creatives and hope to work with Ade again soon!

Many thanks,

Lizzie

www.lizziebayliss.co.uk

Jezebelle

I shot with Ade recently and he is a wonderfully creative individual who applies so many different & unique techniques to shooting, playing with the light and moving to get the perfect shot...

He is fun, super professional and has picked up such a repetoire of teckkers, that it proved to be one of the most relaxed & easy shoots - Ade is a fantastic photographer who is a joy to work with and I cannot recommend him enough :)

Em

Keira Lavelle

Ade came along on a studio group day at Barlow studios last week (the first time we had met and worked together) and it was really quite awesome indeed! :D

The day consisted of doing different sets in and around the studio: mostly working on a 1 to 1 basis and when Ade and I got the chance to shoot he always had some fantastic ideas to utilise the environment and even outside where I have never even though of shooting before on my previous visits to the studio! He has an exceptional creative eye: really pushing the boat out with composition and paying careful attention to detail so get the angles and lighting perfect. We hit off a bounce right away as you can see where Ade is going with the images and work together: plus he's epic with direction too so each set churned out some stunning images! He's particularly a fantastic natural light photographer - this is often the tricky one because you don't have control of the conditions but the way Ade utilising available light is quite amazing. The feel to his images are beautifully simple yet story-telling and powerful at the same time which I really enjoy seeing so it was wicked all round!

Ade is a genuinely terrific photographer and makes the teamwork process a real breeze; he's also lot's of fun to work with and a great person to have in such a group for laughs, inspiration and general social aspects. He's very laid back by nature and takes it all in his stride, possibly one of the easiest photographers for a model to get along with and a people-person no doubt! Certainly had a whale of a time working with Ade even though it was in short bursts as all the photographers took it in turns. Completely courteous, well mannered and respects the work of a model totally. He was one of the first people on site to meet and greet - we were chattering from the word go and then throughout the course of the day too! Needless to say he got some amazing images of my curly hair which I don't do all that often - looking at the back of the camera was exciting before the images even appeared on the big screen post-edit. :)

Very highly recommended; a superb photographer whose a pleasure to work with. I can't believe we haven't shot together before now! It goes without saying that I very much look forward to working with Ade again in the future.

Keira x

katie Anna

Spent the weekend on a group shoot with ade for the DPS.

We had such fun working together ! We shot mostly outside and created some beautiful images .

Ade is very creative , has a good eye for the most stunning images and is really great to get along with .

I would highly recommend him to any models and I hope we get the chance to shoot together again as he's friggin awesome 😎

Thankyou

Katie Anna

Em Theresa

I was booked to model at a group shoot last weekend, and shot with Ade on a few sets during that time. He was very friendly to work with, gives great clear direction to achieve the shots he is after, really knows his stuff when it comes to studio and available lighting and we produced some lovely images! I would be very glad to work with him again, either at the group or one-to-one. Thanks Ade :)

Soria

I've met Ade on a group shoot, and it was a lovely experience. He's a very friendly an chatty person, it was a fun shoot and he took lovely photos. Recommended :)

Catriona Stewart Disabled Model

Ade is one of those photographers who knows what shot he wants and it's quite nice to just let go and have him tell you how he wants you to pose. This may sound odd but as I'm used to being in control of what I do pose wise it can get tiring at a group shoot trying to make sure everyone gets interesting poses and trying to make sure they all have different images. It was nice to have a photographer see something different to what's in my mind as it also teaches me new ways to do things.

His images are definitely worth the extra effort to get them and I'm so happy with the outcome

Anna Faye

I got the chance to work with Adrian at a group shoot studio day at Barlow. During the times I got to shoot with Adrian he was fully prepared with ideas in mind and knew what he wanted to shoot. He was good at giving direction when needed and gave me a few good tips whilst shooting. Adrian was easy to get along with and great to work with and I hope to work with him again.

Highly recommended.

Anna