{"id":342,"date":"2016-02-13T18:22:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T18:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/?p=342"},"modified":"2016-02-13T18:22:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T18:22:16","slug":"tree-abstract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/?p=342","title":{"rendered":"Tree Abstract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/wp-content\/gallery\/gallery-16\/Tree_Abstract_TTE.jpg\" alt=\"Tree_Abstract_TTE\" \/>It was mostly about post processing this week though I did get out yesterday to find some Wood Ducks. Still I liked this abstract enough to designate it image of the week.<\/p>\n<p>This was shot at the butterfly grove in Pismo Beach. I used a low ISO and slow shutter speed to capture this while deliberately moving the camera.<\/p>\n<p>Then in Photoshop I added vibrance and saturation. Next I took it into Topaz Texture Effects and just started looking for something I liked in the presets. Once I found it I drilled down and started playing with the preset filters. I changed the texture to give it a more foresty look and changed the light leak to give a hint of a sunburst in the upper left. \u00a0Then I added a border just for visual interest. I finished it off in Color Efex Pro with an image border so it wasn&#8217;t totally squared off.<\/p>\n<p>I like that it is still obviously about trees but abstract enough that it is definitely not a straight photograph nor could it be easily reproduced. I think for photography to be art it should not be easy to reproduce, which is getting harder and harder to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was mostly about post processing this week though I did get out yesterday to find some Wood Ducks. Still I liked this abstract enough to designate it image of the week. This was shot at the butterfly grove in Pismo Beach. I used a low ISO and slow shutter speed to capture this while &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/?p=342\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tree Abstract<\/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":[2,8,6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-flora","category-nature","category-painterly"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}