{"id":1950,"date":"2017-06-21T15:55:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2017-07-23T08:58:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T12:58:04","slug":"brick-window-fortress-of-louisbourg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=1950","title":{"rendered":"Brick Window, Fortress of Louisbourg"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1953\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1953\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Brick-Window.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1953\" src=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Brick-Window-997x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Brick Window, Fortress of Louisbourg\" width=\"600\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Brick-Window-997x1024.jpg 997w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Brick-Window-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Brick-Window-768x789.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Brick-Window.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brick Window, Fortress of Louisbourg (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here is a scene from Fortress Louisbourg near the town of Louisbourg Nova Scotia. \u00a0The fortress is an easy day trip from Sydney where we were staying. \u00a0There are several small towns (such as <a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=1933\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Port Morien<\/a>) and lighthouses along the route that offer photographic opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>I thought about making this a black and white image, but liked the red in the shutters. \u00a0I converted the image to black and white using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/nikcollection\/products\/silver-efex-pro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google&#8217;s Silver Efex Pro<\/a>. \u00a0I then used a <a href=\"https:\/\/helpx.adobe.com\/photoshop\/using\/masking-layers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">layer mask<\/a> in Photoshop to expose the red shutters. \u00a0That looked a little awkward, so I also exposed the red bricks around the window at the top and bottom of the image.<\/p>\n<p>I think this makes for two interesting areas for the viewer to explore. \u00a0First is the red brickwork and the shutters. \u00a0The second is the black and white stone wall. \u00a0The mix of black and white and colored areas also creates a little depth in the image.<\/p>\n<p>Fortress of Louisbourg: N45 53 27.65 W59 59 08.59<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a scene from Fortress Louisbourg near the town of Louisbourg Nova Scotia. \u00a0The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[537,9],"tags":[504,505,314,506,351],"class_list":["post-1950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nova-scotia","category-outdoor-photography-tips","tag-brick-window","tag-fortress-of-louisbourg","tag-nova-scotia","tag-photoshop-layer-mask","tag-silver-efex-pro"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1950"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1967,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions\/1967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}