{"id":2274,"date":"2015-02-09T15:29:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T23:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/?p=2274"},"modified":"2015-02-09T15:29:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T23:29:45","slug":"goldstream-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/goldstream-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldstream image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was at Goldstream Park the other day trying to get inspired\u00a0 ;-). As I came around a corner, I saw a heron on the side of the creek. First I took a quick shot&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2279\" src=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/alanklughammer.com_.20150208-_AKP6339-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"alanklughammer.com.20150208-_AKP6339\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/p>\n<p>but I was not really happy with the composition. I thought the trees were too cut off, the line of reeds lead the eye out of the frame, and overall, the image was kind of weak.<\/p>\n<p>I then backed up and tried a vertical. Now the trees give much more sense of place, the heron is still quite small, but it is not really the central subject of the image.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/alanklughammer.com_.20150208-_AKP6341-Edit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mouseover aligncenter wp-image-2275 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/alanklughammer.com_.20150208-_AKP6341-Edit-267x400.jpg\" alt=\"alanklughammer.com.20150208-_AKP6341-Edit\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" oversrc=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/alanklughammer.com_.20150208-_AKP6341-267x400.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I spent some time on the image to enhance the impression I had at the time of the image, highlighting some parts of the image, increasing contrast in other areas. I also removed an out of focus branch from the right hand side that was distracting. If you hover your mouse over the image above you can see the before image.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I have tried to make this image an impression of the morning. There was a quality to the light and a sense of scale that I want to emphasize. I am not sure if this comes across in a small web scale image, but once I do a bit more work, I will try making a large print for an upcoming show.<\/p>\n<p>For those who are interested, here is a screenshot showing the layers and masks I used&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2280\" src=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-09-at-3.19.56-PM-198x400.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-02-09 at 3.19.56 PM\" width=\"198\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at Goldstream Park the other day trying to get inspired\u00a0 ;-). As I came around a corner, I saw a heron on the side of the creek. First I took a quick shot&#8230; but I was not really happy with the composition. I thought the trees were too cut off, the line of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,16,15,7,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adv-retouch","category-medium","category-lessons","category-photography","category-retouching","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}