{"id":654,"date":"2025-12-15T16:57:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~HannahB\/?p=654"},"modified":"2025-12-16T18:22:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:22:23","slug":"the-elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~HannahB\/the-elements\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~HannahB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Wind-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A portrait landscape photo. The subject is a brown leaf hanging off of a branch with many green leaves. In the bottom left corner, a recycling bin is visible. The background features a trellis with winding branches. The background features motion blur.\" class=\"wp-image-655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~HannahB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Wind-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~HannahB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Wind-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~HannahB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Wind-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~HannahB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Wind-1140x760.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~HannahB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Wind.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">25mm | 1\/4000 | f5 | ISO 25600<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prompt for this photo was &#8220;the elements&#8221;, and I chose to represent wind in my photo. I went outside, and tried to look for something that would be easily swayed by the wind. I found this browned leaf that hadn&#8217;t yet fallen, and took a few photos of it as it as the wind pushed it around. Then, I took the image to Photoshop. Using Photoshop, I used layer masks to adjust the lighting and make everything more visible. I also made the leaf a bit brighter than the background so it would stand out. Most importantly, I applied motion blue masked to everything but the leaf to give the effect of motion. If I were to take this photo again, I would like to experiment with different shutter speeds to see if I can capture natural motion blur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prompt for this photo was &#8220;the elements&#8221;, and I chose to represent wind in my photo. I went outside, and tried to look for something that would be easily swayed by the wind. I found this browned leaf that hadn&#8217;t yet fallen, and took a few photos of it as it as the wind pushed it around. Then, I took the image to Photoshop. Using Photoshop, I used layer masks to adjust the lighting and make everything more visible. I also made the leaf a bit brighter than the background so it would stand out. Most importantly, I applied motion blue masked to everything but the leaf to give the effect of motion. If I were to take this photo again, I would like to experiment with different shutter speeds to see if I can capture natural motion blur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~HannahB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~HannahB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~HannahB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~HannahB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~HannahB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~HannahB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~HannahB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~HannahB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~HannahB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~HannahB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}