{"id":4540,"date":"2011-08-06T03:43:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T10:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/?p=4540"},"modified":"2013-05-14T15:08:38","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T22:08:38","slug":"rocky-mountain-iris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/rocky-mountain-iris\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocky Mountain Iris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/20110806.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Rocky Mountain Iris\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/20110806-188x125.jpg\" width=\"188\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a>When I photographed this scene, it was glaringly bright so I knew it wouldn&#8217;t make a good print. But the flowers were wonderful so I shot anyway figuring I&#8217;d have a good memory of it. I also had in mind playing with the image in various creative software with hopes I could rescue it. <strong><a title=\"Topaz Simplify\" href=\"http:\/\/www.topazlabs.com\/simplify\/\" target=\"_blank\">Topaz Simplify<\/a><\/strong> did a great job toning down extreme hightlights. I adjusted just to the point where the super bright highlights disappeared. I then applied <strong><a title=\"Nik Glamour Glow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.niksoftware.com\/cepnx\/usa_img\/new_filters\/glamour_glow.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nik Glamour Glow<\/a><\/strong> to soften even more and bump up the color. Still not great so I decided to try <strong><a title=\"Dynamic Auto Painter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediachance.com\/dap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dynamic Auto Painter<\/a><\/strong> on it. I love this software because it allows you to save your creation as layers for future work. Voila! Fun process \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I photographed this scene, it was glaringly bright so I knew it wouldn&#8217;t make a good print. But the flowers were wonderful so I shot anyway figuring I&#8217;d have a good memory of it. I also had in mind playing with the image in various creative software with hopes I could rescue it. Topaz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[310,4,88,7,33,53],"tags":[302,798,366,987,792],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4540"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5724,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540\/revisions\/5724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}