The First Little House on M43

I took four photographs last March 3: Two virtually identical pics of this house, and two poorly-framed images from elsewhere in the village. Clearly I was in a hurry, though I don't recall why.

Since I'm planning to discuss this photo in a week or so I'll forego an explanation today. Besides, I need today's space to begin a discussion about my photo workflow.

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The photo-a-day project changed my usual workflow. By the end of the year I'd moved most of my photo processing from Photoshop Elements to Bibble Pro.

When I started the 366 Snaps project I'd been using Bibble Pro (now Corel AfterShot Pro, though I've not yet upgraded) for about four years. For color photographs I'd been using Bibble mainly as a photo-sorting device (I generally used Photoshop Elements for color post-processing), while for black and white pix Bibble was my primary processing tool.

Sean Puckett's Andrea plug-in--which has long come bundled with the program (it was originally called Andy)--is a tool to filter (overlay?) your digital photo to mimic specific films and papers. When the project began my post-processing of monochrome photographs relied heavily on this plug-in.

For the project's first few months I usually restricted my processing choices. Most of the early snaps, including the image of this house I posted last March, were processed to look as though they were shot using FujiFilm Neopan 400 film and printed on Kodak Polymax II paper. Since Andrea further permits mimicking several common film-processing options for the Neopan film, and offers five filters you might use while printing on Polymax II, this combination gave me considerable latitude. One early sub-project was exploring that (restricted) range.

That's enough for now. I'll talk more about Bibble, and my changing workflow, later. (Perhaps a few months later. But I promise I'll return to the topic.)

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This photograph is an original photo from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps.

Number of project photos taken: 4
Title of "roll:" Around Mulliken [time to stop remarking on this common title....]
Other photos taken on 3/3/2012: none.