I don’t get to work with trained models often, but when I do, it’s actually quite a treat. They just know how to move their bodies, and many of them have trained themselves to listen to the camera’s shutter, so they move with every beat of the shutter’s release, which makes for continuous variety in images and great model portraiture.
This is Sacha Rose Cramer, a long-time model, and a signed one at that with Ice Model Management. Sacha is an absolute dream to work with. She understands her body so well, and she knows what works for her or not, and doesn’t fully rely on listening only to the photographer. She has ideas and concepts, and knows how she wants the outcome to look.
This shoot was basically my first shoot with my Fuji X-T1. When I started my Fuji journey, I knew it would be different to the other brands I’ve sho, and I knew it would take some getting used to. It helps when you’re a little green with your equipment, but your subject just makes your life so much easier, and almost every photo is of good quality.
I always love to look for shadows, or reflections, or anything that provides some contrast within one image.
It’s become a strive and a mission within every shoot of mine, to look for those little things that might just make a portrait, something different. Modeling portfolio photography isn’t what I do naturally and usually, but it does stay portraiture at the end of the day, and working with people, is where I am happy.
It takes someone quite confident to be able to know that in some photos you are able to portray a vulnerable, sensitive look, and in another sultry and sensual look, and Sacha perfects that.
I have added her profile from Ice Model Management to this blog, as she is someone to look up.