{"id":916,"date":"2013-11-17T11:19:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T16:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=916"},"modified":"2017-07-23T10:06:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T14:06:28","slug":"white-oak-falls-once-again-with-texture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"White Oak Falls Once Again With Texture"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_915\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-915\" style=\"width: 408px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Falls-with-texture.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-915 \" src=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Falls-with-texture-680x1024.jpg\" alt=\"White Oak Falls with Texture\" width=\"408\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Falls-with-texture-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Falls-with-texture-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Falls-with-texture.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">White Oak Falls with Texture (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the same image from the previous post except this one includes a &#8220;texture&#8221; layer in Photoshop.\u00a0 Note the &#8220;swirly&#8221; pattern on the foreground rock, the rocks along the left side, and the sky in the upper right corner.\u00a0 This pattern comes from an image of a dead tree with lots of grain.\u00a0 In Photoshop you can blend layers containing the waterfall and the knotty tree to add the appearance of texture.<\/p>\n<p>Using the Opacity and Blending Mode settings, you can vary the amount that the knotty tree pattern shows through on the waterfall layer.<\/p>\n<p>Next time you go shooting, take some images of interesting textures for use in post processing.\u00a0 If you are shooting old barns, take close up images of the wood slats.\u00a0 If you are shooting old buildings, close ups of the bricks make a nice texture.\u00a0 In this case the use of a wood texture complements the landscape image.<\/p>\n<p>Another tip is to use side lighting on your texture images.\u00a0 This increases the sense of texture.\u00a0 A reflector is a good tool for adding side lighting.\u00a0 <a title=\"Cowboy Studies Reflector\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cowboystudio.com\/product_p\/triangular%20reflector.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cowboy Studios <\/a>makes some nice, inexpensive reflectors that fit nicely in my camera backback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the same image from the previous post except this one includes a &#8220;texture&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[175,235,236,234],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virginia","tag-photoshop","tag-shenandoah-national-park","tag-texture","tag-white-oak-falls"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","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=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2098,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/2098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}