References for Nicole Rayner

Gary Stuart

Another wonderful shoot with Nicole in a stunning location this time in an event organised by Nicole.

Nicole is always a bundle of energy and such fun to work with. Nicole is one of the nicest people i Know, a warm personality, always has a smile on her face and a bloody fantastic model to boot.

always a pleasure working with you Nicole-looking forward to the next time.

Would i recommend Nicole - Oh yer in a heartbeat.

Female Art Nudes

I attended an art nude event at Guy's Cliffe, organised by Nicole. It was a great event, at an excellent location and extremely well organised by Nicole :-)

Nicole herself was delightful, funny and great at posing - always prepared to go the extra mile to re-do shots to get the best result :-)

Nicole worked extremely well with the other models!

So, what more can I say, than definitely recommended :-) When Nicole organises another of these events, as I'm sure she will, book yourself a place!

Jann Wassell

Had a fabulous shoot at Guys Cliff organised by Nicole, and included three other models - Ayla, Ivory Flame and Rachelle. What can I say? A totally awesome day, each model worked tirelessly to provide quality images that I am very proud of, and it was a lovely fun, relaxed day. Thank you ladies, hope it's not too long before we work together again. Best wishes Jann :-)

Joe Doyle

Our first shoot finally :). What can I say? You see Ms Rayner in her fab videos, giving us a commentary on wherever she is and you think you know what to expect. No you don't! Nicole is a whirlwind of fun, craic and laughs! I am still laughing at her first story about a Deliveroo driver as we were heading to the shoot location :D As for her Irish accents 🇮🇪 😂

Beautiful, fab to work with with, never afraid to give her take on what might work all lead to cracking images from the day!

She even had me laughing at the end when she wouldn't stop the back of the camera even after arriving to another location! 😂.

If you are after a great shoot with a fab model, with a load of laughs, Nicole is your woman! Hugely recommended, thanks Nicole x

NeilH

I have lost count how many times I have worked with this wonderful beautiful awesome fun loving young lady she is at the top the very top of the modelling ladder.

I was working with her and Ivory Flame On a duo shoot at Image Red Studio so two top models made up for a perfect shoot with lots of laughs and creativity, images to follow.

Can’t wait to work with Nicole again which sadly could be next year as she is so busy I can’t recommend her enough (until Team NiNe work again)

Oh I do have Guys Cliff to look forward to.

Ayla

Worked with Nicole again on a duo location shoot with Larry James.

She is epic! Every photographer should work with her at some point.

Beautiful, funny, charismatic, passionate, talented and its an honour to model alongside her :)

Larry James

Happy me - another shoot with Nicole! This time we were joined by Ayla for a delightful duo art nude shoot in two great settings. They worked so well together to create many great poses in difficult conditions - 32 degrees, humid, no cloud and no breeze.

It was also great to get much helpful and supportive advice from two models who are gorgeous in front of the camera and also both so accomplished behind the camera and in tune with what the photographer is seeing with ideas on how to create better images.

And they are both great company. Does it get any better? - less than two weeks til we all team up again at Guys Cliff!!!!!!

Highly recommended!

Adam Carlton Photography

What can I say about Nicole! Professional, Beautiful, Fun, and Creative !

This was my second shoot with Nicole on a due shoot with amazing Rachelle Summers.

Nicole and I have become good friends over the past few months and it’s always a pleasure to create beautiful images with her.

I hadn’t shot for a few weeks and I wasn’t exactly on my game, but Nicole pushed me that little bit, I’m so glad she did, and I got some awesome images. Nicole always goes that extra mile in her professionalism to get that great set of images.

I love being in her company, she’s very funny and always great to be around !

Thanks Nicole !

DaveEdwards

Another chance to shoot – at last - with one of the most energetic models on the circuit! Nicole is a beautiful and utterly professional model, and a complete joy to work with. If, like me, you’re getting on a bit, take your Sanatogen – she has more energy than 10 models!

Working with Nicole is always a refreshing shock to the system! I’d thoroughly recommend her to every photographer who’s looking for a high-energy shoot!

JPea

I have been trying to arrange a shoot with Nicole for ages and ages and due to clashes of dates and I don't know what else, we never managed it.

It was therefore with pleasure ,that I saw I was to be shooting with her on Rachelle Summers Belles of Bedford in an interesting Victorian Hotel.....near Bedford!

Even better, I saw that the timetable gave me a generous amount of time with Nicole.

She immediately understood what I was wanting to shoot and piled in the ideas to make things work.

She is a great actress and a bubbling personality and great fun to shoot with.

When you are able to not only get results that you like but also enjoy so much, shooting with the model, your day is complete.

I can recommend Nicole to all photographers and we are arranging our next shoot together.

I can't wait.

MartinCHarvey

Nicole was easy to work, bubbly and helpful. Happy to work with her again.

Fantasy Dabblers

We went to the Bedford Belles weekend. This was the second time we had worked with Nicole. She is an adventurous model with amazing balance when posing in awkward places. She is a great character and fun to work with.

jhphotography

This year I seem to be shooting with Nicole a lot. It seems almost every month or other month I'm on a shoot she's doing or running. There's a reason most photographers will shoot again and again with certain models because they've capture some of their best images with said model, improved their photography with feedback from a model or they make a mean cup of tea. Nicole is all three :) Never boring shooting with Nicole as she's professional on set, but with have a laugh between shots or set ups and help you capture awesome images with her creative poses. As always, highly recommend.

DavidBallard

I had my third shoot with Nicole at Rachelle's Belles of Bedford shoot over the weekend which was awesome and relaxing! Nicole is a brilliant model as well as being a lovely person. We had so much fun shooting. The country house was a wonderful opportunity to create some wonderful images and Nicole was her usual friendly, professional and creative self in making this a wonderful day. Thanks again Nicole for a lovely shoot! Highly recommended x

NeilH

Nicole was part of a group of models on a photographic event in Bedford. l love working with her and have worked with on numerous occasions she is just one of the best, she will give awesome poses... you will go away looking at the back of the camera and saying to yourself did she really do that and the answer will be YES

You will have laugh and maybe cry ( tears of joy) that you have managed to book her as she is so busy.

Highly recommend but you don’t need me to tell you that as the images and the recommendations elsewhere vouch for that.

I can’t wait for the next time for us to work again as it goes so quickly. NiNe

Paul Timon

So .....

My first shoot with Nicole. We had a few conversations before she came to Ireland and we knew more or less how the shoot was going to go. Apart from the fact that she is probably the most easygoing model I have ever come across, she is constantly smiling and cheerful.

I had a particular project in mind. I wasn't sure how it was going to go but Nicole worked with me and was very willing to help make it a success.

We had a great time chatting as we shot and she brought her music with her. The playlist surprised me 'cos it was more my era and I'm 72!

My abiding memory of Nicole, besides being a very easy art nude model to work with, is "Frank". The phrase "May I be frank and earnest" will never mean the same again! Read her profile carefully to appreciate that.

Looking forward to next year.

Paul Timon

This reference is a little overdue - I apologise for that.

No matter how much communication you have with this girl *before* the shoot, meeting her will catch you off guard and surprise you! She is a bundle of joy and happiness which makes for great shots and a very relaxed experience.

Our communication before the shoot was excellent and I got very precise location data to pick her up from. She smiled (genuine) constantly and was very relaxed. I had explained to her that I was working a project and that she was my first experiment/prototype. Throughout the shoot she constantly worked with my ideas and took direction very well. While we were shooting we got the chance to chat get inside each other's heads.

I came away with a great set of photos as a learning curve to my project. I do hope to work with Nicole again. No inhibitions, hardworking, incredible poses, great!

Doug Ross

Nicole and I worked together recently during her Irish tour. Nicole is an exceptionally expressive model who uses both facial expression and body language to exquisitely convey a wide range of emotions. I had a fairly detailed “script” (with costume and props) for a number of themes to try to cover during our half day shoot. I always try to engage the person that I am working with to genuinely collaborate on how best to express the ideas behind each set. I was thrilled to find Nicole engaging in the collaborative process with great imagination and honesty from the very start. This was an exhilarating shoot in which we listened carefully to each other’s ideas and were able to respond to each other with imagination and flair. I am confident that we produced several first class exhibition quality images in a short space of time and with only a limited interior location. I look forward to doing a longer shoot with Nicole in the future. I cannot recommend her enough and strongly suggest that you will really miss a lot if you don’t collaborate with her meaningfully by planning well and dialoguing with her. Nicole is a stunningly beautiful woman with intuitive grace. What really makes her a great person to work with is that she embodies the “art” in art nude photography.

StormBringer

I spent a day being guided around Yorkshire by Nicole.

We visited a whole suite of different locations all offering something different: stone circles, castles, fields, woodland - the list goes on. We had some laughs: out-of-date sat-nav maps took us on a mystery tour, a chanting druid!! (well it was the summer solstice), a mislaid mobile, and it was confirmed that this photographer is not designed for hills - particularly those that go up!!!

When it comes to the modelling - there is very little that I can add to the many many positives below. Poses superbly without direction, but listens to my contributions and willing to hold or repeat a pose for different compositions. Committed to the shot, willing to climb and clamber, it's difficult to keep her feet on the ground. Being a photographer herself - she has a great awareness and understanding of how light works and plays.

Would I would with Nicole again, most certainly - I'm already committed to a number of events with Nicole later this year, and looking forward to each one of them. Seriously considering revisiting Yorkshire to carry on where we left off - perhaps Autumn / Spring.

Would I recommend Nicole? Hell, YES!!

Al W

This was my first shoot with Nicole and I am sure it wont be the last. We shot in her lovely apartment in York and Nicole was a great hostess.

Pre-shoot comms were spot on and Nicole was professional thoughout but also very friendly, fun and welcoming.

It was a slightly unusual shoot as we had agreed beforehand that the objective was experimentation and for me to learn a few things about some of my more recent photography equipment purchases and using that equipment with models - but Nicole adapted to all that. We had a great session covering many things photographic - which was excellent for me and gave me just what I needed. It was a bonus to get some great photos out at the end of the shoot too - but that was easy as Nicole is a very photogenic, flexible and capable model.

Now I have met Nicole I cant wait to book another shoot with a focus on creativity rather than learning - the biggest challenge will be fitting into Nicole's diary I think :)

Definitely recommended.