References for Mr Dave

Samantha9

After using Mr Dave's studio for the past year or so I finally had the pleasure to work with Dave himself during a short shoot meet up within his studio.

He knew exactly what shots he wanted for his project and had brought out the gels and smoke for a couple of interesting shots also.

Dave is such gentlemen, always welcomes people into his studio with such a warm, kindness, friendly and relaxing vibe. Not to mention his dogs are always a joy to see when I walk through the door, as they are so well behaved and friendly. He has such a wide selection of space to use within his studio.

Highly recommend and defiantly would love to work with Dave again on a longer shoot.

Thank you for a lovely shoot and I will see you soon.

Samantha x

Ivy Vxlentine

Second shoot with Dave and I'm absolutely in love with the images we produced from this shoot. I've definitely enjoyed what we do together, we had a variety of things to cover for this shoot. Some commercial/brand work, being the one who first tested out Dave's new style, equipment and even doing some boudoir with an entirely new look!

Dave has always been fun to be around and very easy to work with. I couldn't ask for more as a photographer, from the portrait shots you can definitely see his style of beauty photography as he captured so many details. After using his studio many times since I started modelling, I was so glad to have the privilege to be in front of his lenses this time round!

I look forward to working with him in the future, I highly recommend him! It's been a pleasure shooting with you at the studio when I first started modelling, right down to the new year. Only a few months into it now but the progress I've made from the beginning to my shoot with Dave is immense!

Also have to commend his dogs as Timmy and Ruby are an absolute delight to be around.

X

Ivy Vxlentine

Shot with Mr Dave for a short hour to do a collaboration with Jenna South West, when I had issues before arriving, he was very patient and understanding. We had a nice talk while shooting, and had a little chuckle when things got messy! It was a lot of fun and it was nice to work with Dave in other ways than just using his studio, as I have done plenty of times before.

We will be shooting again in two weeks to do something a bit more tidier ahaha.

Thanks again for the shoot Dave x

Henna North West

I did the henna designs on a lovely model called Chloe Valentine for a shoot with Mr Dave. He managed to capture my henna designs very well on the shoot and I am very happy with the results. Thank you :)

Artemis Fauna

Dave joined us for another Artemisian event in September- we hosted the trip in Tuscany once again.

Mr Dave is a regular on Artemisian trips (he has been on every one!) so as always we listen to the feedback we get- 1-2-1 time is good, more time to relax in the day, not too many early mornings etc. This was Artemisian's first TRIO event and we made sure every photographer got quality 1-2-1 and even 1-2-3 time with all the models! :)

A huge Tuscan villa was hired with fabulous grounds and incredible views. A always everyone walked away from the event with thousands of stunning images. We shot all sorts of genres and once again set up strong themed shoots- Gypsy, Jack Vettriano and of course, the street fashion in the most stunning local town. I'm very excited to see more results from my month away in Tuscany! I went through and 5* a lot of images!! Haha.

I'm looking forward to hosting Dave in Sicily in May 2020 for a four day trio event, and hopefully again in Lanzarote later on in the year! Thank you so much for supporting us over the years.

Artemisian Luxury Photographic Holidays

Thank you so very much for booking onto an Artemisian trip to Tuscany!

I can only echo my own (Artemis Fauna) comments I have left for the same trip but once again, another fantastic, creative and fun trip had by all- with many great memories made!

Thank you so much for booking a place with Artemisian- we hope to host you again soon :) :)

Cariad Celis

I recently got the chance to work with Dave at the Artemisian event in Tuscany :) It has been a few years since our first shoot so it was lovely to catch up!

Dave hasn't changed much haha he is still a barrel of laughs and great company to be around. We didn't have long to shoot as it was nearing the end of time on the trip and Dave and the bad boys joined for the trio shoot with myself, Siren and of course the lady herself Artemis Fauna :)

He did have some 1-2-1 time to start and then the rest of the trip was trio. Dave was brilliant throughout and got stunning images, I look forward to seeing them :)

Thanks for joining us and I hope our paths cross again in the not too distant future :)

Recommended!!

Annie Drew

I worked with dave a couple of years ago for probably a few shoots at an studio day... but didn't really work together as such.

I finally had the chance last Saturday to work with him and I brought a new model with me as I'm looking to getting her into the industry.

Was really well, he put up with my craziness 🤪 even though I payed more attention to Roxy... ( his dog)

Until the next time.

Thank you.

Annie.

Maddie G

Was my first studio shooting in UK and was lovely! Thank you, Dave!

Carla Monaco

I had a lovely trip down to Dave's place last week, I was shooting with another photographer at Dave's studio and I shot with Dave the day after.

Dave is nothing but a pleasure to work with, he looked after me 100%.

Dave's home studio is so comfortable to work in, lots of space and great natural light throughout the house.

My shoot with Dave was very productive, we worked on some vintage Bardot themes both in the studio and outside in Dave's beautiful garden.

I also got to pose with Dave's dog the lovely Roxy, a perfect way to end a shoot.

Thank you for hosting me and I look forward to returning.

Best

Carla

Natural Happy Woman

I am lucky enough to have been hosted by Dave as a travelling model...

Staying in a beautifully appointed bedroom with all sorts of bits and pieces in the drawers as back-up in case you forgot any of the model essentials.

Dave was so kind, collecting me at the station and taking me to the supermarket to get my food so everything was easy for me...the perfect haven on tour.

Working from Dave's very reasonably priced home studio is excellent- in a 4 hour shoot we got so much done because we could just move from garden to bedroom to lounge to studio backdrop as we pleased- so many possibilities and Dave is always on hand to assist, but never intruding- he is the perfect host.

I experience Dave as someone absolutely community-minded, really positive about helping others to do what they love....

I totally recommend Mr Dave...and of course the amazingly well trained Tim and Roxy....you might forget there are dogs because you never hear them...

Shout-out to Mr Dave, you're the best!!

CMYK

Arranged a shoot at Mr Dave's with Jordan 2,absolutely brilliant couldn't do enough for us both,lots of props brilliant garden and helpful advice will most certainly use again if the opportunity arises.

Cheers Dave!!

Leo Cooper

Had a recent shoot at Mr Dave's excellent studio near Exeter. Pre-shoot communications were very good, and the session went without a hitch.

Helpful but not intrusive Dave is the perfect host. Highly recommended.....Bruce Westbrook.

Summers Abroad

Dave joined us on our Summers Abroad trip to Southern France this month, and it was super lovely hosting him again :D

He is such great company and really fits in to the group dynamic well! He was also super kind this time round in giving Mr Summers lots of video tips for our upcoming vlogs :)

I only got to look through his images properly from day 1 but what I saw looked fabulous and I can't wait to start seeing the final results :D

Highly recommended by us and hope to have him join us on a trip next year!

Rachelle Summers

It was lovely working with Mr Dave again during my Summers Abroad photographic holiday this month! It had been a while since we had seen each other so it was also super lovely catching up too :D

Dave is an absolutely gentleman and a total sweetheart, super easy to chat to and get company. too :) I couldn't recommend him higher and hope to catch up with him again soon!

Ivy Vxlentine

Since shooting with Photofervor I've shot at Dave's studio three times and I love shooting there. Dave's set up is so neat and tidy, he is always around and is polite and friendly as well. Very easy to get along with and I adore using every aspect of it. Studio, garden and bedroom. Love working there! It's quite the establishment so would definitely suggest shooting there to anyone who enquires☺

Keira Lavelle

How to begin - I have literally masses of amazing things to say about this gent any day of the week, but having recently welcomed Dave on a solo Arts Voyage one-to-one shooting trip to the exquisite island of Sardinia... Gosh! Prepare for positive page spammage! :D

Dave had previously welcomed me to stay at his lovely place in Exeter on a number of occasions: of which we’d also got the chance to work together too - he’s a top human through-and-through and you only need to mention his name to merely a handful of models who would equally rave about how lovely a host and photographer he is. So when Dave confirmed his place on my trip: it doesn’t even need saying that I was naturally ecstatic and so excited to be working together in specially reccced locations exclusively one-to-one as well as utilising the large villa complex in which we were set to be staying with both video and stills work. :) The nice thing about the initiation of our time working together in Sardinia was getting to chat about various specific plans and concepts that we’d subsequently tackle: Dave completely leaps at snatching opportunities that arise on such an event (that you couldn’t achieve back home for example) and had such a brilliant, creatively-minded approach from the word go! He handles switching from the momentary nature of stills to the flow of video so effortlessly and has an unquestionable eye for seizing the best from a particular set/concept. During our 3 days, we probably had everything: from 24 carat golden sunsets over the villa offering photo shooting opportunities both into the light and reverse, to soft wrap around light with random bursts of blinding sun (Mother Nature keeping us on our toes - didn’t phase Dave at all mind you with rocking the conditions!) to working with ambient sources in a pitch-dark night scene! Goodness if that’s not one extreme to the other then I don’t know what is... And each and every time; Dave took it in his stride working calmly with the environment at each given time and we literally did not stop bouncing off each other with the usual and priceless model-photographer rapport to keep the ideas flowing and nail the locations that we tackled one-after-another. No, we didn’t nail it... We conquered! Dave conquered! :D I had a set of conceptual looks pre-prepared as a “foundation/creative kick-start” for some of the locations in the line-up, but unsurprisingly... Dave and I rocked those into the ‘smashed-it’ folder and then the ideas and killer shots continued to bloom with extended inspiration working as an epic team! :D Dave typically having some mad rock platform or crazy angle that requires either a levitation device or impossibly contortionist body to grab the shot. He obviously borrowed some flight gear of Iron Man or something because his persistence routinely came back with out-of-this world pictures. I cannot shout it loud enough from the rooftops and beyond just how much credit Dave deserves for his photography... Because it’s not just taking a picture, it’s scrambling about, battling changeable light, running around at ungodly hours to get the desired picture effects. WHAT A BLEEDIN’ ROCKSTAR! :P

Of course there’s other references from myself (and indeed many others) which bear the common attributes in applauding Daves etiquette and professionalism when working with models - my words still stand firmly as before! However, having spent these 3 days exclusively in the company of Dave in a different country where each and every day is as one-to-one as you can possibly get - he’s the most fantabulouslyawesome person that the world could hope to have on it, and a true gentleman with the kindest nature, and enormous levels of respect for his peers/models. We had our shooting time (worked like clock-work as an insane team), then the down-time at restaurants in the evening and during lunch etc. where we chatted non-stop and generally had a good crack. Dave’s an extremely social person and just wonderful company. It really did feel like we blinked and then he was on his way home! That’s probably the biggest (and only) regret that we could have genuinely quadrupled our time working together and still filled it with fresh creative inspiration and laughs.

So YES!!! And a supermassive YES at that... I do recommend Dave, very highly and really look forward to coming to visit him down South again, and/or having him on a future Arts Voyage event. :D He’s just everything that constitutes a delightful person to work alongside/be in the company of and he really does value the work that models bring to a shoot as well. He’s a brilliant communicator/makes it a total breeze to plan things which enabled us to work out a good system to meet up and travel together to the event. He’s just an all-round superstar really! :P

Thank you to the moon and back Dave!

The Sardinian waterfall nymph! :D

Neil S R

Great session at Mr Daves today with Samantha9. 3rd shoot with Sam but first time at Mr Daves. Great location, fab coffee and one very beautifully lit bedroom overlooking the lawned garden.

Would recomend the facilities to anyone thinking of a studio shoot in the S.W.

Artemisian Luxury Photographic Holidays

Mr Dave is a regular on our Artemisian trips (he has been to EVERY SINGLE ONE!) so I can only echo what I have said over the years. This time we headed to Tuscany for six days and it was, again, a superb trip with the gang!

The six days were fab- we all have lots of great memories from the holiday (as we always do) I'm really excited to see the results go up on PP over the coming weeks. I'm loving the images that have gone up so far and really hope to see some more- everyone got some incredible images!! I also hope to see some of the video footage we made- we caught some hilarious moments! ;)

Thank you so much for booking onto yet another event, it's so nice to have you come back each time and the support means a lot!

See you again in October- bring on Tuscany V2!

Jezebelle

I had the honour of staying and shooting with Mr Dave last week, what an absolute star he is :)

A perfect host, Dave is wonderful to hang out with and ever so interesting, it was so lovely to sit and chat about everything! He's young at heart and also ever so wise, a real gem of a human to be around - his home studio is stunning and very spacious with so many shooting opportunities, he put me up in a luxurious room and even sourced an exercise bike!

It was the best stay I've ever had at a photographers place, the images are beautiful and Dave is the most fantastic individual, I shall be visiting him again if he'll have me :)

Totally recommended, 100% - for shooting with and shooting at his beautiful location ♥