357/365 - Jim - Mad Men

( f/5.6 24mm 1/125 sec ISO 200 Nikon D300 )

I was having some trouble thinking of something to photograph today. It was raining outside, so that wasn't an option. I've done other TV shows, so I just did an Amazon search for TV shows. This is one of the very few that didn't have the characters on the front, so I grabbed my white shirt and a tie and did my best to stage it. I haven't ever watched a whole episode of Mad Men, but I think Courtney said it was good. Here is what I copied it from.

160/365 - Jim - House Foto

( f/11 24mm 1/125 sec ISO 200 Nikon D300 )

Ok, this is my attempt at the TV show House logo. In the show it starts as a head x-ray and then quickly fades to the face of Hugh Laurie and House is displayed across the screen. I modeled it after this photo. I started out by taking a screen shot of the head x-ray from hulu. Then using Photoshop Elements, I did a Gaussian blur and then used layers to put my face in there.

133/365 - Jim - Fringe Hand

( f/8 56mm 1/125 sec ISO 200 Nikon D300 )

This is the second Fringe photo I have done. The first one was of an apple. This one is copied from this photo. To repeat myself, it's a great show and I recommend it. Now to tell you how I did it. I used a piece of Plexiglas in front of a black background. I put baby powder on my hand and made my print with an extra space between my pinky and ring finger, then added another ring finger in between. I used a flash from behind the plexi with a grid spot on it so the light did not leak onto the background. After I got the shot I processed it in Lightroom and gave it a cool blue look. Then in Paint Shop Pro I added the yellow lights. And yes, I have a crooked pinky...

044/365 - Jim - Fringe

( f/11 70mm 1/160 sec ISO 200 Nikon D300 )

Theme is TV Show. This is the first of many hopefully. I want to take some logos from TV shows and reproduce them as a photo of my own. If you haven't watched the show Fringe, you should check it out. It is the latest show by J.J. Abrams and deals with fringe science such as telepathy, reanimation, etc. So far it has been really interesting. For this photo I cut an apple in half and poked it onto a boom connected to a light stand. I wrapped the boom with black foam because it is silver and would have reflected. Once I had the shot, I started on the post processing. I turned it blue, added the babies (click the image to see it close up), and finally added the yellow glowing things. This is what they show sometimes right before they go to commercial.