{"id":6339,"date":"2019-10-01T14:59:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T14:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/?p=6339"},"modified":"2019-10-01T14:59:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T14:59:07","slug":"hiding-in-a-palm-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/?p=6339","title":{"rendered":"Hiding in a Palm Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sydjohnson\/48826153998\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48826153998_8bc8188e7c.jpg\" alt=\"Image of a little bluebird female in one of my big palm trees. \" width=\"580\" height=\"385\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think this is a little <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Eastern Bluebird (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Eastern_Bluebird\/id\" target=\"_blank\">Eastern Bluebird<\/a> female who was helping me while I cleaned up my flower beds in my front yard. Not much was done in Lightroom, and Photoshop added Viveza 2 filter to sharpen her up a bit. The light was really dark in the palm tree, but really bright behind her so it was hard to get that looking correct. A Curves Adjustment Layer was used for this. Just a slight painterly effect was added in Topaz (see sidebar for website link) Studio 2&#8217;s Impression filter. Then in PS on a few New Layers,  mainly just painted in some lines in the foreground palm fronds as they were really blurred. The Camera Raw filter was used to further tweak the color in the HSL panel. Topaz Lens Effects&#8217; Soft Olive Green Vignette preset was added. That was it!&#8230;..Digital Lady Syd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think this is a little Eastern Bluebird female who was helping me while I cleaned up my flower beds in my front yard. Not much was done in Lightroom, and Photoshop added Viveza 2 filter to sharpen her up a bit. The light was really dark in the palm tree, but really bright behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,767],"tags":[726,735,99,827,250],"class_list":["post-6339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photoshop-filters","category-topaz-studio","tag-camera-raw-filter","tag-topaz-impression-2","tag-topaz-lens-effects","tag-topaz-studio-2","tag-viveza-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6339"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6344,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6339\/revisions\/6344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}