References for Photography by Duncan Holmes

Tink Kaos

I had an excellent shoot with Duncan last month, at the spacious apartment I was staying at in Largs - despite the unfortunate overcast weather/light, we got some amazing lingerie shots, boudoir sets, a few very cool colour flash portraits too. The pictures are beautiful!

Duncan is a lovely soul, very chilled, creative, great to chat to, and friendly. Would highly recommend to all models!

Tink

Aurora Phoenix

Had a really great shoot with Duncan Holmes during my Tour to Glasgow at my Hired Apartment.

Prior to shooting communication was just excellent and everything was so easy to plan and organize. We did some casual lounge wear fashion style shots as well as boudoir/lingerie.

Duncan is just a joy to work with. He’s just so relaxed and really puts you at ease during shooting. I loved his used use of natural light too. Time flew by and we had such a good shoot together.

Duncan recently send me samples from our shoot and I’m beyond impressed with the results. More than recommended!!

Joceline Brooke-Hamilton

Ahh, Duncan is a delight! He came to shoot with me at my rented apartment while I was touring Scotland, and it was such a pleasure to work with him. Professional, prepared, courteous, friendly, and great fun to spend time with. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend him to other models, or to work with him again myself. Lovely!

Megann

I’ve just returned from a last minute shoot with duncan and it went amazing and from previews of some pictures they looked fantastic🤩 he made me feel comfortable from start to finish and maintained all measures of safety with regards to covid, highly professional and I highly recommend!

Evie Siddal

I had a great time shooting with Duncan in Edinburgh today! He's a very easy-going guy and I enjoyed trying out some ideas that I'd wanted to do for a while. We got some great photos and I'd highly recommend him to any model, local or otherwise. Also appreciated his sense of humour and glad he got a slightly niche joke I made about Mary Magdalene. :)

Tink Kaos

Had a brilliant early morning shoot with Duncan in the Greenock area, starting at a loch side (those pesky midges) and a rather immense derelict farm house, shooting some sunny nudes, then drove across to the coast, flowing dresses on the beach and the forest. The images look stunning!

Duncan is respectful, relaxed, creative and easy going, was lovely to hang out and make art with this fellow. Would highly recommend to all models!

Tink

AD Ten

I have a great time shooting with Duncan . Very friendly and welcoming environment. Also the outcome of his picture was extraordinarily awesome .. great job Duncan

DeeDancer

Shot with Duncan in Glasgow last week and had a great time! He was good enough to start at 9 am for me and met me with a cup of tea at the ready!

The studio was fab and Duncan made sure I was warm enough throughout, he was super respectful and friendly.

What I saw from the back of the camera looked unreal and Duncan was adjusting lighting and helping me climb up onto the window ledge during the shoot.

Thanks for a great shoot Duncan! Would recommend!

Bobbi Castle

First time working with duncan. He booked me as part of my tour to Scotland. I went to Glasgow where he has a studio. The studio is nice with great natural light. We where shooting bridal boudoir mostly. Hr had brought along a couple of wedding dresses so i was having loads of fun getting dressed up. Then we shot a sort of casual cosy lazy sunday morning sort of thing. Duncan himself was lovely, totally normal and easy to get along with. Got me chocolate and everything. Chocolate a;ways wins with me for sure. Also lots of breaks too for coffe and getting warm again. I hope we get to shoot together again soon. Thanks a lot for a great shoot,

Evie Siddal

I had a lovely shoot with Duncan yesterday!

His pre-comms were great and the shoot itself was a lot of fun. due to just moving studio there were a couple of technical difficulties but we managed to work around them to get really varied mix of images, including ones where he directed me to imagine that aliens were invading - which was a fun departure from the classical art nudes and portraits we'd originally planned!

Duncan is a gentleman and very easy to work with. I would definitely recommend him to all models and look forward to working with him again! :)

Belle Eve

I shot with Duncan for the first time last weekend, he was a total joy to work with. A total gentleman, comms before and during the shoot where fab and over all the shoot went very smoothly.

I can only recommend.

Much love

Eve

Lauretta Hart

Had the most amazing time yesterday with this photographer and his team of a makeup artist and dress maker. He's great to chat to, gave me lifts and is a gentleman,makes you feel at ease straight away. He had lots of fun suggestions and was nice to use natural lighting from the window as well as studio lights and having a dance to some cool music with some lovely people was definately a good way to spend a Sunday!

Would definately work with him again and 100% recommended. Thanks Duncan!

Stella Star

I was up in Scotland on tour and had my first shoot with Duncan at Pavilion Studios.

We worked really well together! It was a super relaxed shoot and I felt like I could get involved with my ideas which was awesome. We came up with some cracking images and worked through quite a few different sets!

Duncan is a gent with a great sense of humour and a talented photographer.

Would happily work with Duncan again!

Highly recommend.

LJ x

Aurora Violet

I enjoyed my fourth shoot with Duncan at the recent 'Scottish body art collective' body paint day in Livingston as part of a collaborative day being painted by artist Lynn Fraser.

Duncan along with another two photographers were there all day and took behind the scenes images and images of of all the painted models separately and as groups.

Duncan was as usual so friendly and professional. A lovely person and a fantastic photographer. He took some wonderful images from the day and it was a pleasure to work together again.

I highly recommend Duncan to all creatives. Can't wait till next time.

Thank you Duncan,

Aurora :)

Aurora Violet

I recently enjoyed my third shoot with Duncan, this time doing a solo boudoir shoot in an apartment in Glasgow I had hired for two days.

Firstly Duncan arrived in the early evening to shoot with me in Glasgow city centre during a snow storm taking on the elements which I appreciated so much.

Secondly the apartment I had hired was falsely advertised and was not as great as it said so there was dodgy lighting, there were a few broken things, no heating but Duncan managed to find a fan heater for me, overall the flat was usable for the images we wanted to get and did have some lovely big mirrors, a mirror table and some nice top bedding for boudoir shots so Duncan made use of what he could and ended up capturing some of the loveliest images of me.

Thirdly I would just like to say Duncan is an amazing photographer and very nice to chat with but not only that he takes very unique and beautiful boudoir images.

We had such a productive shoot and Duncan was very aware of the apartment being quite cold and always making sure I was warm enough which I was due to the life saving fan heater which warmed the place up very nicely.

Our time flew by and I can't wait to work together again in the future at some point.

So highly recommended, until next time Duncan.

Aurora :)

Aurora Violet

I had the pleasure of a second shoot with Duncan doing a duo day with the gorgeous Miss Sassy Su at a hotel shoot in Glasgow and it just flew by.

It was a few years ago the last time I met and worked with Duncan at a body painting event which was full of models and photographers so it was great getting to work with him in a slightly less crowded atmosphere this time.

Duncan responded to our casting and his communications were excellent, he arrived on time and was so organised. He had some fab ideas and between us all we got some wonderful images that I love.

Our shoot was short but sweet with a lot of laughing and Duncan is so professional, experienced, highly motivated and he is so respectful of the models also. He is very talented and enthusiastic and I love the fact he likes to portray a story within the images. Such a lovely man and it was great getting to shoot together again along with Miss Sassy Su.

Highly recommended, do not miss the opportunity to shoot with Duncan.

Thank you once again and I look forward to next time.

Aurora :)

Saskya

Second shoot with Duncan this December on my Duo day with Aurora Violet in Glasgow. This time it was a very different theme from our flamenco dance theme. We did a mixture of casual fashion, boudoir and nude. Duncan is easy to shoot with and had some great ideas throughout the shoot. Would highly recommend him to any creative. Hopefully we can shoot again in soon.

Tiny Tigress

Duncan was great to work with, and the photos were great! He got the images back to me really quickly, and I would definitely work with him again and recommend him to others.

Bad Dolly

While on tour in Edinburgh with Jezebelle I had the absolute pleasure of a shoot with Duncan, who was on time with lots of ideas, a great light kit and a wonderful attitude :) He was fun and laid back, he made the most of each set without overshooting it and I really enjoyed working with him.

He was great at giving direction but also let us free pose too, the perfect mix!

Really highly recommend Duncan to other models and cannot wait to see the images, thanks for a wonderful morning with lots of laughs! x

Carla Monaco

Duncan booked me on my tour of Glasgow last Monday :).

We shot at Duncan's studio space which is easy to get to, just across the street from the station.

Duncan is lots of fun and great company, easy to work with and a skilled photographer.

I also foot my bag of jewellery at the studio but Duncan was kind enough to post it back to my home, which was lovely.

Highly recommeded

Carla :)