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My Aperture Session: Ferns

by Tobias on September 6, 2011

My Aperture Session: FernsA screenshot of my Aperture “fern” session. Full res. uploaded so you can see the details.

I have been using Aperture (currently version 3.x) for a while to organize and do post production for my photographs trying to minimize the time I spend in Photoshop. This post doesn’t go into some of the Aperture jargon, so please pardon me if you are not privy to Aperture slang.

I have 504 photographs that I took of the small ferns (less than a foot high) that started sprouting just outside my apartment in Seattle back in May. After many hours of sorting the images, this is what I’ve ended up with:

79 stacks of images with the best pulled to the front of each stack. Only the first two thumbnails are images I have actually done any post production on. (As noted in my previous post, one stack, for example, is a set of 127 photos.)

I have it sorted by rating, so my current picks are at the top decending down to pictures I might not even use.

My next steps are to actually give more accurate star ratings, choose which images are the créme (and which are shit), then edit those images to polish them for publishing.

All this for ferns. Then again, I can’t help myself; I just love the shapes, textures and colors that fresh ferns have.

 

If you are curious to learn more about how I am using Aperture, let me know and I might take the time to go into detail. Cheers!

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“Kandid Fullfrontal Consumption”
a short film by T.bias

by Tobias on June 8, 2010

This video is best viewed in full screen mode in order to see it in HD.

“Kandid Fullfrontal Consumption” is a short film that I shot starring my (usually) vegetarian friend, Mr. Where.

I edited the video before I wrote the music.

The process that I used was quite interesting. “How do you go about editing a video with probably a couple hundred edit points all in time to music that doesn’t yet exist?!?”

How the filming came about

You might want to read this after you have seen the short film. There are some spoilers below.

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“Loose” – Plastination: New (old) Mix!

by Tobias on January 3, 2010

I was listening to my iTunes pumping in random music and it came up with a song I wrote, but something was different.

The song is “Loose” by Plastination.  I had completely forgotten that I had made an early alternate mix of the song that bumped up Jake Flood‘s amazing harmonica performance much higher in the mix.  Sadly, a lot of the production work that I put into the song was done after this mix.

I present both mixes for your enjoyment:

“Loose (original)” [MP3]

“Loose (Harmonica Mix)” [MP3]

The song is hyperbole about the Rock’n’Roll Lifestyle Stereotype™.

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