{"id":11174,"date":"2017-01-04T20:06:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T02:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=11174"},"modified":"2017-01-04T20:06:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T02:06:53","slug":"skywatch-friday-crossroads-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=11174","title":{"rendered":"Skywatch Friday &#8211; Crossroads Sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Skywatch Crossroads-Edit.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/31962521232\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/282\/31962521232_ebac595cb6_z.jpg\" alt=\"Skywatch Crossroads-Edit.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Logan has a friend who lives out south of town in the middle of nowhere. I don&#8217;t mind taking him for a visit because there almost always good photo ops at various places on the way including this crossroads where the main road turns. For some reason I like to take pics of the sunset with car headlights. It seems to me that it adds a little bit of motion to a set piece. I&#8217;m just a lowly picture taker so what do I know<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still learning how use Lightroom and Photoshop and I am definitely in the &#8220;Why had I not done this earlier?&#8221; mode. I really like how the various parts interact. I can open up and do basic edits in LIghtroom and then pass it easily to PhotoShop where I can send it to a Topaz filter. And like magic it sends to the Topaz edits back to Photoshop and Photoshop sends them Lightroom and in Lightroom I can publish directly to Flickr. It works so smoothly it is almost scary.<\/p>\n<p>Next I&#8217;m going to learn layers in PhotoShop. I&#8217;m interested in layering images on top of each other. Just of the heck of it at first but I also want to see what I can do creatively with the techniques.<\/p>\n<h1>Oh well, enough for all that. I&#8217;m linking with <a href=\"http:\/\/skyley.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skywatch Friday<\/a>.<\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Logan has a friend who lives out south of town in the middle of nowhere. I don&#8217;t mind taking him for a visit because there almost always good photo ops at various places on the way including this crossroads where the main road turns. For some reason I like to take pics of the sunset [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1408,1899,1887,1449,1898,1886,1343,1271,1317,883],"class_list":["post-11174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skywatch-friday","tag-digital-art","tag-flickr","tag-lightroom","tag-oklahoma-skies","tag-oklahoma-sunset","tag-photoshop","tag-skies","tag-skywatch-friday","tag-sunset","tag-topaz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11175,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174\/revisions\/11175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}