{"id":254,"date":"2013-02-17T18:07:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T18:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/?p=254"},"modified":"2014-11-20T07:48:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T07:48:50","slug":"a-man-and-a-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/selected-images\/a-man-and-a-tree\/ ","title":{"rendered":"A Man and a Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_0006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"699\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_0006.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_0006-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_0006-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_0006-160x160.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_0006-600x600.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_0006-80x80.jpg 80w, http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_0006-320x320.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This was taken in Yokohama on my trip to Japan in 2010 (see the original image below), at exactly the same place and one minute before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/international-exhibition-images\/a-woman-and-a-man\">A Woman and a Man<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to create a dreamy, Japanese feeling in the final image.<\/p>\n<p>The original was first straightened then cropped to a square format. The Nik \u2018Pro Contrast\u2019 filter was applied, then \u2018Darken\/Lighten Center\u2019 was applied with the centre positioned near the top right hand corner to lighten the right hand side of the image. This was done 5 times. A layer mask was used on the last two applications to balance the image the way I wanted it. The image was then sharpened using Photoshop \u2018High Pass\u2019 filter. Nik \u2018Glamour Glow\u2019 was applied and adjustments were made using \u2018Viveza\u2019. Finally \u2018Bleach Bypass\u2019 was applied and a layer mask was used to bring back some of the detail.<\/p>\n<p>This image has had 12 International acceptances including a Diploma at 47e Challenge du Photo-Club Esch Salon Mondial 2011<b> <\/b>and an acceptance in the Royal Photographic Society International Projected Image Exhibition 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Nikon D700, Sigma 24-70mm lens at 70mm, ISO 200, f\/2.8, 1\/640sec<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-522\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/A-Man-and-a-Tree-Original.jpg\" alt=\"A-Man-and-a-Tree-Original\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/A-Man-and-a-Tree-Original.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/A-Man-and-a-Tree-Original-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; This was taken in Yokohama on my trip to Japan in 2010 (see the original image below), at exactly the same place and one minute before A Woman and a Man. I wanted to create a dreamy, Japanese feeling in the final image. The original was first straightened then cropped to a square [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}