References for Sophia West

Mark Davy-Jones

Sophia is totally amazing! I had a fantastic creative shoot with her last week at my studio in Ryde on the Isle of Wight. Pre-shoot communications were excellent and she arrived on time by Hovercraft, that's just two minutes walk from Studio2. Her make up was ready and executed to a very high standard. Sophia can pose to many different styles and is incredibly versatile in front of the camera. She understood the principles of the lighting techniques we were attempting and was very patient while I tweaked the setup. Throughout the shoot she was professional, enthusiastic and fun to work with. I would highly recommend Sophia and hope to see her again at Studio2 sometime in the New Year for a studio day.

RedStiletto

Sophia travelled up from Southampton as a part of her southern tour, giving an opportunity to shoot pictures together today. Sophia is a fabulous model in all departments: terrific beauty, with great enthusiasm about her craft and a lovely person to spend an hour or three with. Her recommendation goes without saying. To Sophia: next time! Clive :)

photofervor

Marvellous shoot with Sophia who drove from Southampton to Exeter! A new venue for me but it all worked out thanks to Sophia and her positive and flexible attitude – plus she looks fantastic, poses beautifully, is enthusiastic and is a delight to be and shoot with. A great day thanks to Sophia. Highly recommended :-)

Phil Thorne

I had my 4th shoot yesterday with the peerless Sophia. As always, she was a photographer’s dream to work with. She arrived on time with everything I’d asked her to bring…and worked tirelessly throughout the day in a number of different locations. As well as being totally professional and creative, she’s also a lovely, fun person to be with…making every shoot a special shoot. As I’ve said before, I cannot recommend her highly enough and very much look forward to working with her gain next year on a number of projects I’m already planning when she’s down south on tour…

frankinsella

Had an absolutely awesome 3rd shoot with Sophia yesterday at Shutterworks! :-) Sophia is one of my absolute favourite people to work with! She is always so professional, really easy to communicate and shoot with and she gives me confidence to experiment a lot and get different kinds of shots :-) her dance experience really shows and she is brilliant with any kind of movement work but she also has fantastic versatility and can cover any style of shot superbly :-) she is always on time, always has lots of awesome things to shoot in, lots of ideas to contribute to the shoot and she also brings lots of enthusiasm and a sense of fun to every shoot which means you will love every minute of working with her! :-) Sophia is the complete model! :-) I totally recommend her and hope to work with her again V V soon! :-)

Pan

I had another brilliant shoot with Sophia yesterday, when she modelled for a studio day at my home studio.

Organising the shoot with Sophia was again so easy, her communications are always prompt, clear and friendly. She arrived early and we were ready to go when the first photographer arrived for his slot. Sophia quickly established a rapport with each of the photographers who worked with her throughout the day and they were very pleased with the images they obtained.

In my own shoot with her we experimented with a couple of new techniques. Sophia threw herself into them with great enthusiasm, keen to see the results and patient as I tweaked the timing and levels. We also shot a number of images for a photographic project I am engaged in. These required her to convey some very strong emotions, which she did, perfectly.

To round off the day we shot a dance video with a short film group I belong to. Sophia had interpreted the lyrics and choreographed the dance. She showed great patience and stamina, endlessly repeating sections of the dance for different camera angles, always maintaining the beautiful, smooth lines, dancing with great elegance and grace.

Overall, then, a fantastic and productive day, marked with much laughter. I just love working with Sophia and strongly recommend her to other photographers.

bobby bobster

Had my first shoot with Sophia on Sunday at Pan's home studio.

Sophia is an excellent professional model, works without the need of directions and will willing do what is asked of her.

Fun to work with and would be a real treat to any photographer.

Would highly recommend her and would certainly like to work with her again.

Arrow Photography

Just wow...

Just got back from an awesome day at the Natural Light Studio with Sophia and i have the biggest grin ever on my face!

Sophia has been on my list to work with for about a year and dear lord it was worth the wait!!

We'd been chatting on and off for a few weeks so I can't fault comms prior to the day! She came across as friendly and professional which is always a good sign!

But in person just a whole other story! Amazing model, super awesome to be around, such a lot of fun and incredible posing ability, her dance background totally shines through!

Considering we had no plan we got through a mammoth amount of shooting and each set was better than the last. Sophia threw herself into everything and I honestly couldn't have spent the day with a better model.

Super Cool!!

Will work with again as soon as I'm able! Highly and totally recommended!

Falcieri Designs

Sophia is stunning! Her dance background means she really knows her moves and she is such fun to work with and looks amazing. Also creative, incredibly elegant and makes my designs look incredible. What more could you possibly want! Thank you so much for a fabulous shoot. I hope I get to work with you again!

John Gleeson

I'm becoming a regular contributor to this section and am very, very happy indeed to be so. Our fifth shoot today was one of our best so far with an amazing make up & hair artist and a brilliant stylist (Falcieri designs) Sophia unfortunately had been not well recently and could have easily prosponed, not a chance Sophia was her usual brilliant self and worked tirelessly throughout the shoot with her beautiful and creative posing. I have said it before but I will say it again Sophia is a genuinely fantastic model in every way and I really enjoy working with her, extremely reliable, hard working and great fun to work with. Sophia will give you amazing pictures eveytime I can genuinely vouch for that ! :)

John Gleeson

I am going to have to search the world wide web for more superlatives as this is my 4th reference and I am certain there are going to be many more! I can do no more than genuinely tell you again from the bottom of my heart Sophia is truly an incredible model and a genuinely more beautiful soul would be impossible to find anywhere on earth!

Every single thing from the minute you will make contact with Sophia will be meticulously dealt with after four times working with her I can hand on heart vouch for that. Professionally I honestly think she is amongst the very best, the sheer variety of work she can do is astonishing, she has never been late, always answered every single message almost straight away, is always unbelievably enthusiastic, brings the most beautiful outfits and lingerie, her posing is amazing and she always knows exactly what her body is doing and how she looks, her figure would start a war and make Helen of Troy look positively normal, she is genuinely interested in the image outcome and is absolutely committed to making sure you get the very best pictures you can., I could go on and on !

Today we shot such a wide diversity it was almost unbelievable, one minute Sophia was on a horse, not much later we were attempting some natural light stuff and Sophia was wearing the most beautiful lingerie set, all a normal day for her and all done just brilliantly.

As someone to work with again I truthfully say there cannot be better, hardworking yes absolutely but oh my word what a beautiful fun, happy person to be around. Take it from me Sophia is an incredible model and a beautiful person, I honestly doubt I will ever find a better person to work with. I very much look forward to the next shoot! :)

Horoma Photography

Sophia was kind enough to come over and model for an art deco statue experiment that I had planed. Sophia's skill with dance was a great benefit to the shoot and it helped to create the grace and elegance that the shoot demanded. She threw herself into the concept and work hard to get some fantastic images.

Really pleased with the results we achieved and I am very happy to recommend her to others.

Credenza

I had a very productive and enjoyable time working with Sophia at Martin G's well-equipped studio in Clacton, and at the nearby beach. Sophia is wonderful to work with, totally dedicated and professional, and at the same time easygoing and friendly. She quickly understands what the photographer wants and produces a never-ending flow of varied and quality poses, with a dancer's poise and style. And she has a perfect figure and flawless skin tone.

She is everything a model should be, and I look forward to working with her again. Very highly recommended.

Oneimage

Sophia is a name for a goddess, not only does she have the body of one, she also moves like one.

Shooting her was fun and it was very easy to get beautiful images. She has lovely sensual movement from her dance background and I was extremely happy with everything we did.

Sophia is a fantastic model and I hope to shoot her again some day.

Highly recommended. :)

John Gleeson

If I could choose between winning the lottery and another days shooting this incredible model I would pick the latter hands down every time!! I consider myself very lucky indeed to get to work with this amazing, fun, hardworking, beautiful Lady, she is genuinely unbelievable in every way and photographing her is truly an absolute joy. Today we did a number of completely different themes and some were really difficult but none of it all phased her, her patience and professionalism is completely off the scale and she worked extremely hard throughout the whole shoot.

I hand on heart promise you she will go way above what is required to help you get the pictures you want. It is simply great fun working with her!!! I genuinely cannot wait to work with her again, you'll be seeing a lot more of my writing in this reference section!!

Sophia is a brilliant model in every way make no mistake ! :)

Kate Chalkley Makeup

I worked with Sophia on an Autumn inspired shoot, and she really was a pleasure to work with. She is the perfect client for an MUA as she is so patient, calm, friendly, and just allows you to do what you feel is right.

From the finished images I can see that she worked so hard that day and that nothing was too much trouble! I would happily work with Sophia again and would recommend her to anyone else considering her for any upcoming work!

Teresa

Had another great shoot with Sophia yesterday. We just love working with this young lady. She always give 100% to the shoot. And she even gives some of her idea's to the shoot which is great. She such a fun girl to work with and can't wait to work with her again at the end of the month.

WritingPhotography

I enjoyed working with Sophia very much. She was very welcoming and encouraging all through the shot, which was really good as I still consider myself a beginner.

Before the shot we exchanged quite a few emails to discuss details and ideas through pinterest, so when I arrived there, she had already worn make up and was ready to shoot. She had completely understood the type of atmosphere that I wanted to create, and not only her poses, but also her facial expressions were exactly what I had in mind. She poses very well without direction. Actually all her poses are really amazing.

Whereas all of this seemed effortless, I know that there is a great preparation behind it. Sophia is obviously a very experienced professional and knows how to give her body the attitude that will make her look good in every image -- and if she doesn't it's the photographer's fault!

Thank you Sophia for working with me. I'm already looking forward to working with you again.

100% recommended!

Andrew Dobell

Sophia was the chosen model from a commercial casting that I ran for a shoot.

She was a great model with excellent communications throughout. She arrived on time and worked hard on the shoot to get the images that we needed to capture.

The client is thrilled with the results.

Highly recommended.

Andrew Dobell

I had a great shoot with Sophia today.

She had great communication throughout the build up to the shoot and turned up on time despite having to travel a long way through busy traffic.

Sophia took direction well and was professional throughout the shoot, happily doing her best to get into the poses I suggested.

I got some great shots and I'm looking forward to editing them now.

I hope to work with her again in the future.

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