{"id":12459,"date":"2011-07-20T04:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=12459"},"modified":"2011-07-20T06:17:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T13:17:44","slug":"the-ghost-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2011\/07\/20\/the-ghost-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ghost Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

Needs a bit of help.<\/i><\/p>\n

The Ghost Tree is located on wonderful 17 Mile Drive at Pebble Beach, right at the entrance to the viewing area for the Lone Cypress, of which I wrote here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s right on the edge of the Drive, surrounded with clutter. A fence here, the road there and that awful sign.<\/p>\n

A few moments with Photoshop CS5, using Content Aware Fill<\/a> and Lens Blur<\/a>, plus a bit of messing with Curves to add punch to the poorly lit subject, and the result is transformed. A final touch-up with the clone stamp tool and the out of focus highlights are gone. <\/p>\n

Here’s the after and before, in Lightroom 3:<\/p>\n

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And here’s the final thing:<\/p>\n

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Ghost Tree. Panasonic G1, kit lens @ 25mm, 1\/160, f.8, ISO 320, processed in CS5.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

Getting all high falutin’ about image manipulation? You like Adams<\/a>‘s work? He did much more of this sort of thing in the darkroom. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Needs a bit of help. The Ghost Tree is located on wonderful 17 Mile Drive at Pebble Beach, right at the entrance to the viewing area for the Lone Cypress, of which I wrote here. It’s right on the edge of the Drive, surrounded with clutter. A fence here, the road there and that awful … Continue reading The Ghost Tree<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12459"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12473,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12459\/revisions\/12473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}