{"id":397,"date":"2014-06-26T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/?p=397"},"modified":"2014-06-26T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T13:01:00","slug":"portraits-of-a-little-girl-named-ava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"Portraits of a Little Girl Named Ava"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This time I got the pleasure of photographing a young girl.  These images are still part of my current personal project.  I am loving doing some work for myself.  I feel a bit like I have my hobby back.  Before I made the decision to be a photographer I worried that the thing I did to make myself happy and distract myself from day to day life would be lost forever.  I didn’t want this thing that made me happy to become a burden.  Thankfully, for the most part, it hasn’t.  But sometimes it really helps to do some photography for me, so that the hobby part of photography is still there. <\/p>\n

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I’m finding this project a great learning experience for me.  With the pressure of pleasing a client gone I can relax and do what I need to do to create the portrait I want to create without fear of letting a client down for not having produced what they wanted.  <\/p>\n

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Photographing these children is such a joy.  Ava was a smiley, lovely little girl, who mostly did as I asked.  And as a result I got some great images of her that I’ve been able to work my magic on and create the sort of portrait I love producing.  This style of portraiture is very much my sort of thing, although its not the only thing I do.  There is a time and a place for this type of portraiture but I do feel it works so well with this age group.  <\/p>\n

I am, however, always up for suggestions and trying new things as long as I feel it is still possible to maintain my standards in quality.  Quality is something I will never sacrifice.  <\/p>\n

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She was about done at this point, can you tell?  But I still love her expression here.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This time I got the pleasure of photographing a young girl.  These images are still part of my current personal project.  I am loving doing some work for myself.  I feel a bit like I have my hobby back.  Before…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}