{"id":8778,"date":"2012-10-19T12:22:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T17:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/?p=8778"},"modified":"2012-10-19T14:47:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T19:47:06","slug":"abstract-blur-blend-before-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/abstract-blur-blend-before-after\/","title":{"rendered":"Abstract Blur Blends {before &#038; after}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">michelle shefveland. <a href=\"http:\/\/cottagearts-net.stores.yahoo.net\/nask8xphartb.html\">photo art blends 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cottagearts-net.stores.yahoo.net\/sifa3sc.html\">simply faith 3 scrap.words<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Our brilliant maples are a wonderful subject for playing with abstract motion blur photography techniques. This year I captured the shot below as we were being hit with 40 mph gusts one chilly day last week. The stunning red leaves did not have a chance of staying long this year!<\/p>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_1_placeholder<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">michelle shefveland. camera specs: canon 7d, canon 50 mm\/1.8 lens, iso100, tv mode: 1\/8 second shutter speed, f\/22<\/span><\/p>\n<p>See our abstract blur photography tips and ideas on our blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/?p=4309\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To add texture, color, and the photo transfer edge, I added two layers of #01 from Photo Art Blends 1 (darken and soft light blend modes were applied), adjusting the aspect ratio from 8&#215;10 to 8&#215;12, keeping the 4&#215;6 composition intact. These blends have no designs in which transforming proportions in this manner would be problematic.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the layer palette looked after adding a Simply Faith Scrap.Word to finish the piece.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_2_placeholder\n<p>Note&#8230;Full step-by-step PDF instructions are included with each set of our <a href=\"http:\/\/cottagearts-net.stores.yahoo.net\/phto.html\">Photo Art Blends<\/a>, to help you with more advanced techniques of adjusting texture with masking or erasing, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another abstract blend using similar techniques (used #17 from set 1 on overlay blend mode 75% opacity)<\/p>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_3_placeholder<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">michelle shefveland. <a href=\"http:\/\/cottagearts-net.stores.yahoo.net\/nask8xphartb.html\">photo art blends 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cottagearts-net.stores.yahoo.net\/silo3sc.html\">simply love 3 scrap.words<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>See more Before &amp; Afters on our blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/?cat=58\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Happy creating! Michelle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>michelle shefveland. photo art blends 1, simply faith 3 scrap.words Our brilliant maples are a wonderful subject for playing with abstract motion blur photography techniques. This year I captured the shot below as we were being hit with 40 mph gusts one chilly day last week. The stunning red leaves did not have a chance of staying long this year! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-before-and-after"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8778"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8800,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8778\/revisions\/8800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}