{"id":103,"date":"2013-05-17T22:43:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T22:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/?p=103"},"modified":"2013-05-17T22:43:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T22:43:07","slug":"dutch-iris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Iris"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, school is over and I have no one to answer to but myself this week.\u00a0 Everyone seems to like my flower pictures best so I headed back down to the Botanic Gardens in Albuquerque to see what was in bloom.\u00a0 The Irises definitely had center stage but I also found some poppies and columbines to shoot.\u00a0 I was headed for a kind of edgy look with a detail extractor and bleach bypass filter in Nik Color Efex Pro.\u00a0 Then I added a Tonal contrast softening filter and it really made the Iris pop but in a very realistic way.\u00a0 Before taking the image into Nik I had added a Gaussian blur filter then masked out the part over the flower using a radial gradient on the layer mask.\u00a0 That gave me the blurred background but sharp flower I was looking for. The final touch was a lightening vignette around the edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, school is over and I have no one to answer to but myself this week.\u00a0 Everyone seems to like my flower pictures best so I headed back down to the Botanic Gardens in Albuquerque to see what was in bloom.\u00a0 The Irises definitely had center stage but I also found some poppies and columbines… Continue reading Dutch Iris<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-macro","category-nature","category-nik","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}