Taffy

A year ago I wandered around the house just taking random photographs. This was the best of those pix, but since it would have been the daily photo project's third cat in just over a week, I went with something else.

The "something else" was a picture of the model warship that lives on our dishwasher. It claims to be H.M.S. Victory, but it really doesn't look anything like Nelson's flagship. That pic has an odd mix of light and dark, and of sharp and soft edges. It came out pretty much like what I intended when I framed the shot, and I rather like it.

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Most of the outtakes I've been posting were processed in Bibble Pro on the day they were taken. I tossed them into a folder named "366 Outtakes," from which I'm mostly extracting this project's images. The Taffy photo does not fit that pattern.

Because the bulk of the outtakes were processed the day they were taken, they usually followed whatever processing protocol I was using for most photographs at the time. In this case, the Victory photo was processed using Bibble's Andrea plugin to look as though it was taken with FujiFilm Neopan 400 and printed on Kodak Polymax II paper, as I discussed on March 3. (Just so you know: I can tell you this because Bibble tracks the last changes I made to any specific photo, not because I remember these details. I really need to expand on this, but that's not happenin' today.)

Since I post-processed Taffy's photo just a couple days ago, it didn't get that treatment. Instead I just used a few tricks I'd learned to improve its sharpness and ignored the Andrea plugin completely. Had I processed it similarly to the 366 Snaps pic, it would definitely have a softer look.

Over the course of the year I got a lot of practice using Bibble, and (as I've noted before) have substantially changed my workflow.

For the record, both pix were subsequently "improved" in Photoshop Elements by applying Unsharp Mask and adding the skinny frame. Bibble's equivalent features are weaker than the PSE offerings, so that's my general practice.

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

Number of project photos taken: 27
Title of "roll:" Assorted Stuff
Other photos taken on 4/5/2012: I tried again to photograph the courting turkeys. And shot a few flower pix.

Flower pix, most of you likely already realize, are going to be an ongoing theme in this space.