{"id":37,"date":"2006-09-18T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T05:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beautifulyouth.com\/b\/?p=37"},"modified":"2006-09-18T21:33:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T05:33:00","slug":"understated-natural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beautifulyouth.com\/b\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Understated Natural"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beautifulyouth.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/paul1-775373.JPG\"><img style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beautifulyouth.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/paul1-772431.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>This past weekend, I had the privilege of shooting Paul, one of our newer models. Paul has always come across as quiet, composed, dark, and somewhat mysterious. This shoot proved no different.<\/p>\n<p>It was a quiet, sunny (yet not <em>too <\/em>hot) afternoon, and we shot the first part of the shoot in our sleepy downtown area, against a backdrop of an almost iconic brick wall. I&#8217;ve been wanting to shoot with that wall as a backdrop for some time now, and with Paul, I finally got the chance.<\/p>\n<p>Paul was a complete natural, and aside from being a tad distracted (<em>embarrassed?<\/em>) by a couple that happened to be passing through the park area where we were shooting, he was completely relaxed and we had a great time. Paul did have a bit of a bang-up on his bike a few days before, and bore the marks of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beautifulyouth.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/paul2-716300.JPG\"><img style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beautifulyouth.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/paul2-714846.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>cycling misfortune on his elbow and forehead.<\/p>\n<p>After that, we drove about a half mile, where I picked up my newest &#8220;toy&#8221;, a green-and-gold muslin backdrop that Paul would test out. It is a collapsible muslin 8&#8217;x15&#8242; backdrop that soon proved to be quite a challenge to fold and hang. After several attempts, we finally got the backdrop to stand against a tree, and we resumed the shoot.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the shoot went well, and we look forward to more quality work from Paul in the future!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend, I had the privilege of shooting Paul, one of our newer models. Paul has always come across as quiet, composed, dark, and somewhat mysterious. This shoot proved no different. It was a quiet, sunny (yet not too&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/beautifulyouth.com\/b\/?p=37\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beautifulyouth.com\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beautifulyouth.com\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beautifulyouth.com\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beautifulyouth.com\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beautifulyouth.com\/b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beautifulyouth.com\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beautifulyouth.com\/b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beautifulyouth.com\/b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beautifulyouth.com\/b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}