References for Tara Mawer

ShakerMaker

I shot with Tara for the first time last week. I knew she would be good from the images in her portfolio but she surpassed my expectations!

Preshoot comms were perfect, she understood exactly the type of images I wanted to create.

Tara's a really talented model, she posed with style effortlessly over and over again, she worked hard to get the shots I wanted and she added her own flair to the images.

She's absolutely beautiful which makes getting great images a breeze, and she's also a lovely, fun and down to earth person which makes working with her an absolute pleasure.

100% recommended, I'll be working with her regularly in the future, no doubt about it :-)

syd.miles

I managed to nail down a shoot with Tara after many months of trying to get our diaries aligned.

When we finally put a date in the diary, Tara’s pre-comms were spot on, and she kept me updated with her journey as we arranged to meet at a local train station.

We exchanged numbers and I sent over a mood board to help Tara understand the kinda images I was looking to create.

Tara is pleasure to work with and takes direction well; as well as being more than capable of posing herself.

Our 4 hours just flew by as we went through a few different sets, she bought a suitcase full of clothes too.

She also was up for being a guest on my fragrance channel, with minimal prep, she was a star.

I really look forward to working with her again and comes highly recommended from me.

Syd

Elle J

I have met Tara a few times now and it was great to get to pose with her during a shoot at The Boardroom with Rapture Photography, Phil Lynam, TK300 and Sister of Sinister as the mua.

It was really great to work a bit together as a duo. We posed really well together and she moved with me as we posed. She is great fun to work with and I had such a fantastic day. Thanks for a great day lovely x

asnphotography

I worked with Tara for the first time at my Studio in Nottingham. She's drop dead gorgeous, I picked her up from the train station at the agreed time she arrived on time. She came well prepared with outfits to compliment the ideas we'd discussed in messages. She understood exactly what I wanted to achieve from the shoot. She required no direction and took it with ease when requested. She's such a lovely person to talk to and work with. I really enjoyed working with Tara and I am looking forward to our next shoot

Thanks Tara for your time and effort.

Rapture Photography

Our latest shoot was our third and, my god, was it an epic???

It had been a few months since we had last worked together but this more than made up for the time lapse.

We had a full day at The Boardroom in Derby with an amazing MUA (Sister of Sinister), two other models, two other photographers and two huskies!

My plans were incredibly ambitious and I feared they could have fallen apart. No such fear with the awesome and beautiful Tara.

Tara worked hard all day and created many, many phenomenal images. The FPIs will no doubt be piling up, and rightly so! Tara is pure gold.

So lucky and grateful that Tara was able to spend her valuable day off with us. Her skills and natural beauty are top class.

Always a delight to work with Tara and she comes with the very highest recommendation xxx.

TK300

I had the huge pleasure of working with Tara for the first time at a meet up of creatives organised by Rapture Photography at the Boardroom Studio. The incredible makeup artist and stylist, Sister of Sinister made up Tara to be a Fire Demoness, she looked amazing.

This girl rocks, works hard to get the images you want, an amazing array of poses, some insane that give that editorial look, Tara can portray emotions very well, she is down to earth, funny, easy to talk to, an all-round beautiful person and model.

I have to say through this shoot, I now have some of my favourite photos to date and Tara was instrumental in that Ohh and Tara has the best arm tattoo I have ever seen.

100% recommended. And I’d absolutely love to work with Tara again.

Thanks for a great shoot Tara.

Dave E W

I shot with Tara in Birmingham, exploring the city looking for locations to shoot. This was a bit of an impromptu shoot after I found myself back in the area for a few weeks. She was great fun to work with and quickly adapted to each shoot location without prior knowledge of the specifics. Her posing is great, she pretty much free posed the whole shoot and worked with some direction when we were looking for something specific. I really enjoyed exploring the city with her and I have lots of images that I’m really pleased with.

Communications were great with Tara leading up to the shoot and she arrived really well prepared despite the limited direction from me. We had kept in touch leading up to the shoot and adjusted our plans due to the weather.

Tara is a great model; I highly recommend working with her and I’m looking forward to shooting with her again soon.

Cheers Tara!

Saracen House Studio

An absolute pleasure to meet Tara for the first time on Sunday for her shoot with Vish Patel at our studio. Right from the start, Tara was professional and friendly, clearly passionate about creating beautiful images and just brilliant to have in the studio.

As a make up artist as well as model, her look was flawless and perfect for the style of shoot Vish was doing in our natural light boudoir.

Cannot recommend Tara highly enough; would love to have you back for a shoot Tara, see yiou again soon!

@vishpateluk

So I shot with Tara at the beginning of October 2019 at Saracen House Studio in Milton Keynes. Pre-comms were excellent, with Tara replying promptly, politely and answering any questions I had. I provided details of what genres I wanted to shoot and a mood board and she quickly confirmed you could happily accommodate.

A few days before the shoot we kept in touch to confirm everything was okay and that travel arrangements were sorted. On the morning of the shoot we once again sent text messages to ensure all was okay and what time she would be arriving. I met Tara at the train station and gave her a lift to the studio.

The first thing that impressed me was how bubbly and friendly she is. Honestly I've shot lots of people but you can instantly tell when someone is your kind of person and she was so easy to talk to and fun.

When we arrived at the studio I gave her a quick tour and showed her the space and what ideas I had. After having a quick drink / some tea we quickly got to shooting. Tara is so confident in front of the camera and requires no help posing. For someone whose only been shooting a year she is amazing, and I'm not even joking. Her hair and makeup were all done to a very high standard and she constantly adapted to the different poses and lighting.

Shooting with Tara is an absolute joy, honestly, this is probably my favourite photo-shoot of the year. She's so bubbly and easy to talk to. People who know me know I'm a man of opinions and even we managed to get along fine. Oh did I mention her cool tattoos?

We tried a number of outfits with me even using props like LEDS or objects around the studio. There was a cool light which was a recent addition I love that she was happy to give it a go even if it could have been silly. As a photographer I love models who just know what to do and require no real guidance and Tara comes across as someone whose been shooting for years.

So yeah overall, what do I think of Tara? FANTASTIC!

Malibi

My First shoot with Tara, and definitely not my last.

The 4 hours flew and before I knew it was over and I wished I had more time...

Communications were spot on and we both knew what was expected.

I picked her at her accommodation, where I was early and drove to our hotel location. Her make-up was done to a very high standard and brought with her little travel bag of outfits.

Tara was such a delight to shoot with,she has a very polite, friendly and very professional. I did ask for some intriguing poses, and Tara was very quick to understand my ideas and flowed into suitable poses, without much further direction. Every shot was a winner and I can't thank her enough.

Thank you Tara.

I very much 100% recommend Tara, and I can't wait for our 2nd shoot.

hojoimages

Thank you Tara for being at the shoot today; part of a team for a special shoot with a German TV company; Tara arrived ready and looked great; very professional throughout the shoot. Tara had to wear quite a large costume and at times a hood in the heat of the day; yet she carried on, which the TV crew and the designer were appreciative of.

Lots of people about but that did not effect Tara at all.

would defiantly recommend Tara for a shoot, wonderful.

Thank you so much for all your hard working the heat and still looking great.

Howie

Belle Noire aka Black Beauty

What a joy to work with you!!! As soon as I arrived a thought oh...I should of wore more make up Haha. More perfect in person that in her port!

Really easy to chat to, work alongside and spend the day with.

Complete professional! Not afraid of a challenge and certainly knows how to get a good shot! Book This Girl!!!xxx

EarlGreyHot

Worked with Tara recently shooting corsets and harnesses from some amazing designers and managed to squeeze in a great amount of different looks. Tara is one of my favourite people to work with but recently, her poses and expression have really excelled, no matter what style I've thrown at her.

She is effortlessly cool, beautiful and easy to work with, marvellous company and everything looks good on her. A model dream!

Recommend to anyone and everyone!

Zoom Out

I told Tara I wasn't going to bother leaving her another reference, but having just looked through today's shots, I felt compelled to do so! Tara is THE perfect model. Her poses, expressions, make up skills and stylings are all exceptional and I've never known anybody to be quite so consistently photogenic. The fact that she is only 19 and already this talented is really exciting. This was our third shoot and the best so far. I saved up some of my most favourite and unusual conceptual ideas to try out with Tara because she has a way of turning these vagaries into art. I'm so happy with how they came out! Tara is also great to work with; funny, polite, patient, considerate and open minded. And she brought me more biscuit tea and cookies!

Already planning shoot number four. If this reference doesn't make you book her immediately, nothing will!

Rapture Photography

Tara came highly recommended. No, I mean HIGHLY recommended. Muse like level of recommendation!

So I did what any self-aware newbie to the wibbly-wobbly world of model photography would do. I hid behind the sofa for three months and wouldn't come out until coaxed by a trail of biscuits (Hob Nobs, since you ask).

Arghhh!!! What had I done with those wasted months? I could have been shooting Tara, that's what!! Hey ho!

My dealer (he only gets the good s***!) needs a name check - the mighty Phil Lynam at the glorious Boardroom in Derby. I mention this because he's a man of very high standards so I knew that if he said I had to work with Tara then I damn well had to, so stop hiding young man and get your box brownie down from the loft!

So, my grand idea . . . let's meet in a strange town and shoot outdoors. What could go wrong? In terms of comms and punctuality, absolutely nowt! Tara's clearly highly intelligent, very well brung up and can read a map. The weather, however, had other ideas. It lashed it down, only stopping when it was time to go home.

Not to worry because not only is Tara DROP DEAD STUNNINGLY GORGEOUS, she's also a right trooper. Not a word of complaint, only empathy that my dream of a glorious midsummer dusk to twilight urban shoot was now October grey and soggy. I'm afraid that I dragged Tara to a series of disappointing location after disappointing location (I need to sack my chief scout!).

Even though the elements were agin us, I got some wonderful shots and it was a fabulous chance to get to know Tara a little (this is a collaborative thingy, right?) and plan future epic shootery!

I didn't feel that my skills were up to the task of capturing Tara's beauty. I still don't but she's such an incredible model that she can coax wonderful imagery out of even the most amateur photographer.

It's not even fair to say that Tara has a certain 'je ne sais quoi' because it's clear what Tara has got - immense skills, beauty, personality and ambition. I'm very lucky that she's close so I can book her easily. Tara is going places so I intend to work with her as much as possible before she's so far out of my league that she's only spoken of in hushed tones amongst togs who mourn for simpler times.

BOOK HER NOW!!* MIC DROP

*Don't book her, please, or I won't be able to!!

[My god, this was a rambling one, even by my standards - apologies, dear reader]

Adam John Photography

This lovely young lady is a delight to work with. This was our third shoot together, but the first outdoors. She's professional, confident, bubbly personality and just a joy to work with. Full of ideas and happy to work with mine too; beautiful make up, a selection of outfits that went well beyond the brief.

I'd thoroughly recommend spending some time with Tara - you certainly won't regret it, either from the time spent in her company, or the magical images that come from her.

The Boardroom

What an incredible talent Tara is. She’s the model I have shot the most with since I started shooting a year ago. The reason I shoot so much with her is she is a total professional, always happy to go-for-it, whatever crazy ideas I come up with.

Her makeup is always on-point, which makes editing a breeze, her knowledge of beauty and the latest cosmetics techniques is extensive too.

She has a fantastic “superhero” figure, with poise and elegance, and poses beautifully.

Our latest shoot was a couple of days ago, I was looking to test out some new lights and gels, and Tara was able to help at short notice. I ended up getting some of my favourite shots so far.

A truly lovely person, and great value for a model of her abilities.

Thanks again Tara, for making me look good :)

StarskPhoto

Great shoot with Tara yesterday :-)

Excellent pre-comms and came fully prepared with a range of outfits that fit the brief. Tara has a lovely range of expressions / poses and takes direction well. She is also very easy to talk to and the time just flew by.

A true professional and an absolute pleasure to shoot. Very highly recommended!

Gavin.

Tara was in the studio today we did a mix of things, she has a great look, she's keen and produces great work.

She has great cheek bones and a jawline to die for, she brings a vibe to beauty that few can manage.

It was a pleasure to have her here and I will be delighted to welcome her back, I'm happy to reccomend her.

MeUus

My second shoot with Tara.

Shooting at the beautiful Harlech beach in Wales. Tara was just simply captivating and we had a beautiful day creating beautiful images.

So love Tara’s professional abilities, she makes creating photography so cool and a very cool lady to be around :)

Thanks Tara again