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Best Tunes of 2012

My favourite/most played albums from 2012:

  1. Alt-J – An Awesome Wave
  2. Yeasayer – Fragrant World
  3. Bloc Party – Four
  4. Half Moon Run – Dark Eyes
  5. The Maccabees – Given To The Wild
  6. Miike Snow – Happy To You
  7. Plants and Animals – The End of That

Looking forward to some new releases from:

  1. Frightened Rabbit
  2. Local Natives
  3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
  4. The Knife
  5. James Blake
  6. Phoenix
  7. Arcade Fire
  8. Devendra Banhart
  9. The National (Fingers crossed we’ll see them release their new album this year)

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Timber Creative Portfolio App – Now available in the iTunes Store

My app is now available in the iTunes store, please take a moment to check it out (click here).  Thanks for the support!

Timber Creative – Portfolio of Interactive Designer Tim Foster from Timber on Vimeo.

Tools used:

  • Adobe Digital Publishing - Single Edition
  • Adobe Edge
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Viewer App
  • DPS App Builder
  • iPad Retina
  • iPad Mini
  • Xcode

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Adobe Digital Publishing

After 6 months of research, experimentation and client demos I finally took the time to finish building my portfolio app. It is now available via the iTunes Store, my portfolio was created and distributed through Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite. Throughout my research into this new product I have experimented with almost every tool set and distribution software out there, but in the end I always came back to Adobe’s tools. They’re far superior in quality and reliability, unfortunately they’re also the most expensive. Here is a breakdown of the most popular Digital Publishing Software now on the market:

 

What I am Reading (Top 5)

  1. The Red Bulletin (The most interactive experience)
  2. Fast Company (Great content, suffers in Interactivity)
  3. Adobe Inspire Magazine (Fully utilizes the capabilities of Digital Publishing)
  4. National Geographic (Great content, weak user experience)
  5. Bike (Exact replica of print edition not a true Digital Publication)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Time-Lapse Tips: Patience

I recently started creating time-lapse videos, more as a hobby then a profitable venture but it has been a blast and a great way to slow things down and relax.  The most important thing I have learned is patience, you really need to put the time in and experiment to capture the vision and style you’re looking for.  Nothing feels worst then spending 2 hours attempting to catch a sunset and the clouds roll in and next thing you know you’ve wasted 2 hours that you will never get back.

Here are a few essential tips that have helped me the most so far:

  1. Editing your photos: I prefer to edit my images before creating the video, I feel like I have more control over creating the look and feel I want in Lightroom then in After Effects.  With Lightroom you can create a custom User Preset > Choose an image from your time-lapse and go to > Develop > in the left side at the top of your Presets panel click the plus sign (+) create the preset name and save it to the User Presets folder > Go back to your library and select all the images from your time lapse > In the top right you will see Quick Develop > Click on Saved Preset > User Presets > Select your custom preset and it will automatically apply to all the select images > Export your edited photos > now you’re ready to create the video.
  2. Creating your video:  This is probably the easiest step, with Quicktime Pro you simply open Quicktime go to File > Open Image Sequence and select an image from the folder that contains all the images you want to compile, select how many frames per second (24 is standard) and Quicktime will do the rest.

Equipment & Software:

  • Canon EOS 7D
  • Canon EFS 15-85mm Lens
  • Tokina SD 11-16 F2.8 (IF) DX – Ultrawide Lens
  • Giga T Pro II by Hähnel Timer
  • Manfrotto Carbon Fiber Tripod
  • Adobe Lightroom
  • Quicktime Pro
  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Adobe After Effects

Example: 10 seconds intervals

At first look the Giga T Pro looks like a simple tool to use but the manual is weak and so is any instruction online.  If you want to use it for a time-lapse you simply plug it into your camera > Turn your camera on > Next turn the Giga T Pro on > Choose the INTVL2 setting – the display looks like this 00(hours) 00′(minutes) 00″(seconds). If you’re shooting in intervals of 10 seconds, simply change the seconds and click play and your camera will start shooting.

Here are a couple examples of my first experiments:

How not to surf at Martinique from Timber on Vimeo.

Duncan’s Cove, NS – Time Lapse from Timber on Vimeo.

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