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Before<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n After<\/strong><\/p>\n One of my retirement resolutions was that I would visit all the museums in Santa Fe.\u00a0 Nearly two years on I thought it was about time I got started.\u00a0 Plus, I needed somewhere more interesting than my neighborhood to test drive the new Canon EOS M. So when I learned the International Folk Art Museum allowed photographs but not flash or tripods I thought “Great, I can see how the little camera does at high ISO’s.” Well, it was dark in that museum and I ended up having to crank the ISO up to 6400 to get any kind of reasonable shutter speeds, even wide open.\u00a0 Yes, the pictures are a little noisy at full size but for this image I think a small intimate print is the way to go anyway.<\/p>\n I liked the image of the Kokeshi dolls out of the camera but it was a little hazy from shooting through a glass display box and the background was a little boring too.\u00a0 So, I took the dolls into Nik and added a detail extractor, a bleach by-pass filter, which to my surprise really took care of the hazyness, and a brilliance warmth filter to bring out the colors.<\/p>\n It happened that they had a display of Japanese kites going and I had photographed them and really liked the bright colors but could not see how I could use them as a stand alone photograph.\u00a0 Then I wondered if I could take a piece of the colorful kite and use it as a background for the dolls.\u00a0 So I cropped out a piece of the kite and resized it to the size of the doll image.\u00a0 Then I brought it in as a layer and masked out the dolls.\u00a0 It took a bit of work, especially around the edges but I like the result and now I feel like I have created my own art and not just photographed that of someone else.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before After One of my retirement resolutions was that I would visit all the museums in Santa Fe.\u00a0 Nearly two years on I thought it was about time I got started.\u00a0 Plus, I needed somewhere more interesting than my neighborhood to test drive the new Canon EOS M. So when I learned the International… Continue reading Japanese Kokeshi Dolls<\/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":[2,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-mexico","category-nik","category-still-life","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","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=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"kokeshi_dolls2\"](\"http:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/wp-content\/gallery\/gallery\/kokeshi_dolls2.jpg\")
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