Charissa's model reel at Fleming Photos — a Dallas portrait studio session with careful light, deliberate wardrobe, and the quiet confidence a serious model brings to camera. Captured in BTS by Semper Fi Media as part of the ongoing Fleming × Semper Fi partnership — cut into the short-form content portrait studios actually use to book their next client.
How we shot it.
The Challenge
Fleming Photos books models for real client work — and the studio needs content that reflects the craft going into those shoots. Not a phone-filmed clip cut into a template. Not a different cinematographer each session trying to match what the last one did. Something that reads on Instagram the way Stan's portraits read in print: deliberate, serious, professional.
The Approach
Carissa's session was one in a run of 15+ shoots Stan Fleming and I have done together since Summer 2023. We treat every Fleming session like a second-unit production. I'm on set before the first subject arrives, reading the room — where Stan's working the light, where the wardrobe changes happen, which angles give me the shot without ever appearing in his frame. The rule's the same every time: stay out of the photographer's way, capture the work that never ends up in the client's gallery, deliver a cut that makes the studio look exactly as serious as it is.
Craft Notes
Sony FX3 on cinema primes, available light wherever possible, lav and boom on any talking moment. No separate lighting setups — if Stan built the scene, the scene stays his. Color graded warm to sit inside Fleming's brand language, not mine. Deliverables cut for Stan's exact platforms: vertical reels for Instagram, horizontal pieces for the studio site, native-aspect everything. Turnaround fast enough that the content lives in the window where the shoot is still fresh.
Why This Matters to Your Project
If you're a DFW photographer or studio reading this: Fleming's first call to me in Summer 2023 was a one-shoot booking. Session fifteen wasn't a booking at all — it was a standing assumption. That's the difference between hiring a vendor and building a content engine for your studio. If you want what Fleming has, the door is open. One call. Two sessions. We find out if it works.
On set, lit, and in the grind.
On set with Stan — Fleming Photos, Dallas.
Cinema rig between takes.
Second-unit at work.
The scene Stan built.
Warm light, quiet room.
Fleming Photos × Semper Fi — session in progress.
BTS frame you don't see in the final reel.
Studio work, real craft.
Carissa's session, in motion.
Partnership in the room.