{"id":3207,"date":"2013-11-11T10:49:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T19:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=3207"},"modified":"2013-11-11T10:49:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T19:49:03","slug":"foliage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=3207","title":{"rendered":"Foliage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall, I got on a foliage kick. \u00a0Finally, after many years of dismissing foliage imagery as &#8220;beneath me,&#8221; I thought, okay, it does look pretty spectacular, and maybe MF3d would be a good way to capture the beauty of some of our foliage here in Central VA. \u00a0So for a couple of weeks I went around shooting foliage. \u00a0Most of the shooting was digital video, actually, and there&#8217;s a video I ended up publishing on YouTube, best seen on a 3DTV in HD: \u00a0<em>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g1mU646qYeM<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But some of the trees I found were SO spectacular, digital could not do them justice. \u00a0One of them is in the view I&#8217;ve put in this folio &#8220;Foliage.&#8221; \u00a0I loved the structure of the tree, and the many different colored leaves that it had on display: lots of yellow and red, to be sure, but also greens and browns. \u00a0The mid-morning sun was backlighting the leaves to brilliant effect. \u00a0 I had first been attracted to this tree, because it was dropping leaves. \u00a0I was trying to get video of leaves coming down towards the camera(s). \u00a0But then I noticed the tree for its own sake&#8230; \u00a0The next day I went back to the tree, bringing the Sputnik and some rolls of Velvia, and it really captured the colors beautifully.<\/p>\n<p>This view is almost as it would be if you were lying on your back underneath the tree. \u00a0And I could have done so all day! \u00a0Who needs TV, with trees like this right outside? \u00a0The tree was in a busy part of UVA campus called &#8220;The Corner,&#8221; but you&#8217;d almost never see anyone taking notice of it. \u00a0Truth be told, I had not noticed this tree until this fall, when I was really looking for foliage imagery, and I&#8217;ve been in that general area thousands of times over the past 30 years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starosta.com\/mf3d\/foliage_MFT72.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall, I got on a foliage kick. \u00a0Finally, after many years of dismissing foliage imagery as &#8220;beneath me,&#8221; I thought, okay, it does look pretty spectacular, and maybe MF3d would be a good way to capture the beauty of some of our foliage here in Central VA. \u00a0So for a couple of weeks I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,76],"tags":[383,47,386,382,385,323,12,384,114],"class_list":["post-3207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a26","category-folioa","tag-autumn","tag-boris-starosta","tag-color","tag-foliage","tag-leaves","tag-nature","tag-sputnik","tag-tree","tag-velvia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3210,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions\/3210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}