{"id":410,"date":"2010-04-21T10:12:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T16:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/?p=410"},"modified":"2021-08-18T18:42:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T00:42:59","slug":"creating-a-mood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/portrait-still-life\/creating-a-mood\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a Mood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First I photographed the puppet as a standard portrait:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-411\" title=\"puppet against white fabric\" src=\"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/puppetwhite-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"puppet against white fabric\" width=\"600\" height=\"776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/puppetwhite-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/puppetwhite-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/puppetwhite.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then I wrapped it in black fabric and startled it with a spotlight pointing up towards the face!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-412\" title=\"puppet wrapped in black fabric\" src=\"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/puppetblack2-680x1024.jpg\" alt=\"puppet wrapped in black fabric\" width=\"600\" height=\"903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/puppetblack2-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/puppetblack2-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/puppetblack2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I took this image and used Photoshop to paint around the face and hands with black.&nbsp; Then I used the perspective tool (Edit &#8211; Transform &#8211; Perspective) to distort the proportions.&nbsp; Finally, I used Curves to saturate the colors.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-413\" title=\"transformed in photoshop\" src=\"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/puppet72rgb.jpg\" alt=\"transformed in photoshop\" width=\"370\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/puppet72rgb.jpg 370w, https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/puppet72rgb-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2010,&nbsp; Alice Gebura,&nbsp; All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First I photographed the puppet as a standard portrait: Then I wrapped it in black fabric and startled it with a spotlight pointing up towards the face! I took this image and used Photoshop to paint around the face and hands with black.&nbsp; Then I used the perspective tool (Edit &#8211; Transform &#8211; Perspective) to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[51,20],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portrait-still-life","tag-photoshop","tag-visual-interpretation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4815,"href":"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/4815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}