I have had a couple of sets done in London and here are my thoughts on my experiences:

Joes Glamour - the backgrounds were bizarre (black and white lino and a english coutry garden backdrop??!!), same poses and backgrounds for all girls, and the retouching was too much and I looked really fake! My shoot was in a tiny studio in a  basement flat in earls court.

Michael in Chelesea  - I think he is escort exposure but i had a different website for him which I have forgotten. Pictures and experience were overall better than Joe's. Big proper studio  in Chelsea and female makeup artist stayed so I felt comfortable, but poses/backgrounds are same for each girl pretty much.

Moto - 1moto.com - in East London studio. (area felt a bit dodgy, would get a cab to the address). My friend had them done here and quality, choice of backgrounds and props etc was about the same  as Michaels, and I think about the same price range.

Gary Silver - not in London but thought I might as well add it. My friend used him in Brighton but felt he missed the mark quite a bit and she wasn't keen on these photos, some london agencies didnt feel they were good enough as there was too much going on with props and not enough flesh.

The verdict from my friend and I - Alec Fasani or Ella for our next sets London is so competitive and  there is nothing worse than  wondering if we would be earning more from better photos!

I have had a couple of sets done in London and here are my thoughts on my experiences:

Joes Glamour - the backgrounds were bizarre (black and white lino and a english coutry garden backdrop??!!), same poses and backgrounds for all girls, and the retouching was too much and I looked really fake! My shoot was in a tiny studio in a  basement flat in earls court.

Michael in Chelesea  - I think he is escort exposure but i had a different website for him which I have forgotten. Pictures and experience were overall better than Joe's. Big proper studio  in Chelsea and female makeup artist stayed so I felt comfortable, but poses/backgrounds are same for each girl pretty much.

Moto - 1moto.com - in East London studio. (area felt a bit dodgy, would get a cab to the address). My friend had them done here and quality, choice of backgrounds and props etc was about the same  as Michaels, and I think about the same price range.

Gary Silver - not in London but thought I might as well add it. My friend used him in Brighton but felt he missed the mark quite a bit and she wasn't keen on these photos, some london agencies didnt feel they were good enough as there was too much going on with props and not enough flesh.

The verdict from my friend and I - Alec Fasani or Ella for our next sets London is so competitive and  there is nothing worse than  wondering if we would be earning more from better photos!

Do you mean Jon Silver in Brighton? I have a photoshoot in June with him if so.

Ellas photos are lovely but yes very pricey , i had a set done ages ago probably a bit out of my budget now.

Friend of mine has a shoot on tuesday that sounds pretty good. Her female agent has arranged it for her because she has been messed around with photographers in the past (and I think is going to be there on the day to make sure she gets the shots she needs)
 its a young photographer (male) who used to shoot for the adult channels and some fashion stuff, stylist, hair & make up all in some fancy Mayfair nightclub, think she is paying around ?450-?500

If anyone wants to see her photos PM me as she should have them back next week so I can send a link to her website xxx

Can we keep the agency namedropping for PMs, ladies? Stay on topic, please.

No need to remove photographer's names. We don't have any policy against that. I think Amy was actually talking about agencies, but I don't see the name-dropping. Possibly in CeCe's post before she edited it?

No need to remove photographer's names. We don't have any policy against that. I think Amy was actually talking about agencies, but I don't see the name-dropping. Possibly in CeCe's post before she edited it?

Yes, that's exactly what I meant although as Anika says I can see why the post doesn't make a lot of sense now. The thread is about photographers and whether they're any good, and whilst there's nothing wrong with swapping details by PM if you think that someone having worked for Pimp #3 rather than Pimp #4 lends them credibility of some kind (rather than just posting links to their photography sites) that's fine, but we don't need to read actual names on here as giving the agencies some free publicity/kudos that isn't what the thread is about.

At no point in my post do I appear to have misspelt 'agencies' as 'photographers', so why anyone would think I was asking them to remove photographers names is going to have to remain a mystery. Thanks for clearing it up CeCe (and if anybody is going to write about a photographer being a sleazy, overpriced lech with BO, or whatever, I do suggest you keep that to PM too ).

At no point in my post do I appear to have misspelt 'agencies' as 'photographers', so why anyone would think I was asking them to remove photographers names is going to have to remain a mystery.

Alright, alright! I literally didn't see the word "agency" in your post, is all, 'specially as CeCe had edited hers before I noticed any agency names in there, too. No worries then.

In the rather clearer light of 10am, anyway, I think I'm going to take my own advice and just share a photoshoot with someone who is also grumpy and stingy. That way, I'll have some backup for any potential NO MORE AIRBRUSHING arguments, potential additional help with posing so that I don't look like a colossal thigh monster, and I don't even need the 'tog to do anything beside take pretty pictures anyway since I can airbrush stuff myself.

So, yeah - anyone who might fancy splitting the cost of maybe a day-rate hotel room (if needed) and a photographer here in London, send me a PM! Oh - I'll definitely need a make-up artist since I never even use liquid foundation on myself, let alone to a studio finish level. You can have all the tog's airbrushing work that's included in the shoot, though, cos I'll just do mine at home.

I'd love to have some photos done by Ella. I think I've read on the Guild of Harlots that she doesn't let you choose which pics to airbrush any more. Does anyone know if that's true (it's possible my memory's playing tricks on me), although looking at the photos on her  new site  I'd be quite prepared to trust her. Definitely worth saving up for.

I had a shoot yesterday with Ella and have nothing but good things to say about her.  She fit me into her schedule within a week, and let me come round to her place first to chat about the shoot prior to going ahead.  She was also extremely discreet and didn't ask questions, very experienced, professional and respectful.  I was a total mess on the day of the shoot  but she managed to get good results out of me despite the fact I was in such a state I couldn't even finish the shoot with my final outfit!

I went for the ?350 shoot and was at her place for a good 3 hours.  She listens to what you want from your shoot and knows which poses look good and doesn't take too many shots - I've walked away from some shoots with 100s of photos (most of which are useless) to whittle down to the final shots, but from Ella I got 80 to cut down to 8 for retouching - she does let you chose which you want.