References for DJBPhotography

Basford Hurst Cottage Photography Location

David contacted us to arrange a shoot for himself and Denisa Strakova here are Basford Hurst Cottage. All pre comms with David were great and he made everything very easy to organise.

On the day of the shoot he arrived on time with everything he needed. After a quick tour and a cuppa him and Denisa began shooting. Throughout their time here at Basford they worked really well together and David was always respectful of our location and the model. He was lovely to speak to and we thoroughly enjoyed hosting him here.

We would highly reccomend David and really look forward to welcoming him back to Basford again soon! Thank you David!!

denisastrakovaofficial

Highly recommended photographer. Extremely nice, communicative, serious, reliable and respectful artist. Was a huge pleasure to pose for you in such a beautiful spaceful studio. Gladly I will repeat cooperation with you. All the best. Denisa | www.denisastrakova.com

Maria91

Had my first shoot with Dave on Saturday. What a lovely person - he came prepared and was full of information of what he wanted to achieve. He brought a book on posing which really helped! he cares about what the model wants from the shoot and shows the photos on the back on the camera. The lighting was not on our side unfortunately for the shoot but we still perservered and got some great images. would highly recommend and would love to work with Dave again

Aurora Phoenix

Had a great first photoshoot with the lovely DJBPhotography during my recent modelling tour to the West Midlands at my hired apartment.

Prior to shooting pre-communication was excellent and everything was super easy to plan and organise.

On the day of shooting David was prompt and friendly from the start. He brought along a detailed list of ideas which was super helpful. He also had the coolest model cards. It was like printed boudoir images on these high end card things. They even had some information about camera settings on them too. I’d never seen this sort of thing before.

Everything flowed so well as me and David had a super productive shoot while shooting some of the most stunning lingerie and boudoir shots. David really values a models option too and was asking me what sort of images I liked best and why I liked them. He also shot some really flattering angles of me too.

110% recommended!! David is a really together photographer who came prepared and really knows his stuff about posing and model photography.

Nigel WHP

Had my first shoot today with David at my home style studio. He's a really creative individual. He moves around with his camera, capturing images from different angles and has an artistic eye for photography.

Prior to the shoot communication was brilliant, we went for clothed portraits and some quirky art nude shots.

David is very polite and has an extremely professional manner who is incredibly easy to work with, a lovely person, brilliant, fun and easy to shoot with lots of chatting too.

Images from the back of the camera looked fantastic. I highly recommend working with David, a true gentleman and I would be more than happy to work together again in the very near future!

Cheers David, Nigel WHP 😃

Chica

This was our second shoot with Dave and it was even better than the first!

We had a bit more time now and we knew what we wanted to do which resulted in amazing pictures. I'm very pleased with them and can't wait to upload them!

Dave is a great photographer and a lovely person. Very easy going, kind, respectful and funny. I love working with Dave, hopefully we'll shoot again :-)

Chica

Dave was an absolute joy to work with, very interesting to talk to and full of ideas. We got on really well and I love the images we created.

Can't wait to shoot with Dave again, we've already booked another one !

Love this guy, the 3 hours we spent just flew by like 1.

See you soon Dave :-)

Sammi Jayne

Dave was great with communication before and during the shoot, was at a good little location studio that I knew well. Dave was very professional at all times, and great with ideas and direction, and also his ideas aswell as my own. Highly recommend working with Dave a lovely down to earth guy, I’m looking forward to seeing the final edits thank you Sammi

Jayne Horror

Had a second shoot with David.

Was so glad to be able to have a second shoot. Pre shoot communications were perfect.

Had some fab ideas and was also good to catch up!

Think we got some awesome images!

Would highly recommend to any model, our shoots are always relaxed and respectful

Thanks again :)

Beth Kate

After having previously worked with David at Thomas Holm’s dance workshop at AURA late on last year, he booked our second shoot together at my home last Friday. The booking originally began as a 5 hour duration and ended in 7 hours with two extensions as we were working through ideas so well. We worked though a multitude of sets with differing styles and also experimented with not only natural light but also the studio lighting and different reflectors that David brought with him. The BOC images looked great and I look forward to seeing the final results. Thanks for a great first 1-1 of ours David, and I hope to work with you again soon!

Beth Kate

I worked with David for the first time at Thomas Holm’s dance workshop held at AuraPhotographic last week and was really glad to have the opportunity to shoot and connect with him so much. David is very personable and an attentive tog and I truly look forward to seeing his work created throughout this fantastic day. We are already in discussion about organising at 1-1 shoot at Aura once again so that David can put the skills he learnt throughout the day into practise in time that is just his and not shared. I look forward to this day and recommend any other model to shoot with his too!

Melanie Bond (Butler)

A great start to the seasons changing with an Autumnal themed shoot with David today! I believe this was Davids third location shoot ever and you definitely could not tell!

David showed a wonderful range of creativity on today's shoot - a great eye for detail as well as good technical knowledge of Photography and what makes a good photo.

David was friendly, very considerate and good fun throughout the shoot. The three hours completely flew that we actually ran slightly over as we didn't realise the time! I felt that David was completely respectful of me and also the general public of where we were and felt completely at ease with him. Pre comms were good and the back of camera look like we have created some great Autumn portraiture.

David and I are already planning our next shoot. This time Boudoir. I absolutely recommend him to other models. Thanks for an enjoyable day David :) x

Tania Aresti

Had a wonderful shoot with DJBphotography on my Leicestershire tour which was kindly hosted by Zeus photoshoots.

He was friendly, easy to shoot with and we had a lovely chat whilst we shot.

He was 100% proffesional and I felt comfortable around him at all times.

Highly recommend & I’d love to shoot with him again

Jayne Horror

Had a fantastic first shoot with David today.

Would highly recommend to other models, very chatty and super friendly, was super relaxed and comfortable during our shoot.

Had some great ideas and knew what he wanted to capture, it was great!

Thanks again, and once again; highly highly recommended! :)

Sammi Jayne

Absolutely loved working with Dave, great approach and manners, loved his style and ways of working. Felt totally at ease and comfortable and loved the photos on camera we created at the x factory very pleased and highly recommended to anyone thanks again Sammi

IronB

I worked with David for the first time at the X Factory. He was a pleasure to work with, professional, creative and full of ideas for our shoot.

Pre comms were excellent and David had given some ideas for what to bring along with me.

The shoot was fun and productive and I loved what I saw from back of camera.

Highly recommended to All :)

Thank you David!

Fairestofthemall

Yesterday I had my first shoot with David which we had been planning on for quite some time now, so has been a long time in the making! However, I was definitely not disappointed and on first meeting I knew immediately that this was someone I was going to work very well with and get on just as well with as a person.

David very kindly picked me up from my home and drove us to the hotel he was staying at for part of our shoot. He very kindly helped me with my bags and immediately offered me refreshments whilst discussing shoot ideas.

Just recently I have been having some further health problems with my stomach and of course this has been having a massive affect on my confidence. On speaking to David about this I found him to be an absolute godsend to speak to. I had obviously mentioned this during pre comms and David wanted to know exactly how it was affecting my confidence so that we could work around this to get the best angles whilst managing to make me feel as comfortable and confident as I could.

We shot some beautiful sets in the hotel room which I have worked in before, with the beautiful old style vintage furniture as props and backdrops I was able to easily use these to my advantage. David, staying in this room for 2 nights had managed to assess the room beforehand, how the lighting fell on the room and moved throughout the day and also to work out the best features to work with, he is if nothing but a perfectionist.

Once we had everything we wanted (even though we could have shot all day in this room, ideas were flowing!) we moved on to the second part of our shoot on the beach of a beautiful nature reserve nearby.

Whilst the walk turned out to be a little far from the car to the beach front, we finally managed to make it. Our ideas were to get some lovely sunset shots, however, the sun was very strong and only cast shadows shooting toward it setting in land, so we settled on a serene set nestled in the sand dunes which I was more than happy with looking at them after the shoot. David was also very happy as he has never done a beach shoot before. Unfortunately, the wind decided to change direction and became very cold out in the open, but once we started to walk back in land it was surprising how the wind died down!

We finished up our shoot alongside some beautiful fields on the path back to the car, chasing the sun back, which was the perfect end to the day for me.

Looking at the images on the back of the camera in the warmth after our shoot blew my mind! Lots of lovely images, lots of nice images and some wow images that we've never seen before done by others, which we are very proud of. And of course he dropped me off home after the shoot too like a gent 🙂

David is wonderful to work with, a true, honest and caring gentleman as a person and as a photographer he is very creative, visual and a perfectionist. We both worked so well together because we both like to take our time and pay attention to detail, get it right there and then. As a person David is also understanding, compassionate and all wrapped into a great sense of humour!

Working with David has been a pleasure and an honour and I would easily and happily work with him again. I would 100% recommend working with him to other creatives who take their jobs seriously because he will work to get the absolute best out of you.

Thank you so much for travelling so far to work with me and having faith that I could deliver the shots that you set out for. It was an absolute pleasure and I really hope to work with you again in the future.

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Amber Belle

We had our first shoot recently at the X Factory. I really enjoyed our shoot - we had lots to talk about and I was made to feel at ease from the minute we met.

Our shoot went so well that we even extended it for an hour longer! We have discussed shooting in the future and I will look forward to this :)

I would absolutely recommend to other models.

Bluu Sinn

I shot with David for the first time on my short tour in Birmingham. We shot a range of styles from my hotel room.

Great first coms and very easy to get along with.

I would absolutely recommend him to any model

10/10

Thank you again

Lauren

Melanie Bond (Butler)

David and I shot for the first time on Sunday in the Bluebells in the Cotswolds. Davids pre comms were good and he was a friendly photographer from the start. David was very chilled out and positive when I met him. We went to the Bluebells and tried out ideas together. David has a good eye for detail and thinks about the whole shot - framing the image and other aspects. I liked this as David made sure the composition of the shot was always good and flattering for myself. His knowledge of shooting was good and I found the direction he gave very helpful and again flattering. David was creative on our shoot and also very open to my ideas. He was respectful at all times. I felt relaxed around David like we had shot before. David showed me back of camera images and they look really good and I am keen to share some. Definitely a good first shoot with David, I would shoot with him again if the opportunity arose and would recommend him to other models of course :)

Thank you for a great shoot David x