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Beth (the 'Mac' is silent) ([personal profile] lolmac) wrote2012-11-13 12:00 pm

LOLNaySay: 2009

Ah, but what of Jack?  He made his first appearance in the third and fourth LOLs posted.  This one from 2009 is my partner's all-time favourite (and one of mine).  It's also one of the most ambitious manips I'd done to date.


Stargate caps tend to be dark, and it was Jack's fault that I had to learn how to handle light levels.  This screencap is from the [livejournal.com profile] sg_one_a_days comm (now, sadly, defunct).  Late in 2009, I also started using caps from [livejournal.com profile] sj_everyday, which has become one of my best sources in the last couple of years!  My attempts to find a good source for Jack/Daniel themed caps, alas, have not been successful.

I mostly do manips to improve framing:  I try to keep the proportions of the LOLs consistent, and close to square, going no more than 3:4.  As a result of the manips, I now know that RDA's face is so symmetrical that you can flip it right-to-left and it doesn't look subtly wrong, which is, or should be, wrong.

Over the years, Jack has tallied up about a third of the total posts, with Mac getting about two-thirds.  This is partly because I started with MacGyver and only gradually picked up on Stargate, and more because the MacGyver screencaps give me a much wider variety of activity portrayed, which means a better range of ideas.  At present, of the 173 episodes in which Jack appeared*, I've done LOLs from 135; of the 139 MacGyver episodes, I've done 127, plus both movies.**  I also haven't done any LOLs from Continuum yet.

*Including SGA and SGU, but counting two-parters as a single item, and not counting backstage shots as episode-specific.
**Yes, I'm keeping track.  I'm a geek.  You should see my master spreadsheet of LOLdom!