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1,028,000 Digital Photographs

Posted by michael on from the quantity-beats-quality dept.

cdneng2 writes "Rob Galbraith has an in-depth article on the digital photo process of Sports Illustrated. The article walks through SI's digital workflow of Super Bowl XXXVIII as it sorts through the 16,183 digital pictures shot by eleven of the magazine's staff photographers and the process all the way to the cover of the magazine. Sorry, no Janet Jackson or swimsuit pics in this article."

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  1. Re:Well, they could do one thing to help by Rakshasa+Taisab · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Storing the image with in a lossless format like PNG will not result in any loss of information. What you get from the CCD is what you store in the PNG, no image processing done.

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  2. come on.. by apdim · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I was expecting something like the way the photos are processed, kind of cropping, sharpening and this stuff. Instead the article goes on to specify what brand of computers or use card readers they use and how many images they capture before they have a good shot. Not worthy of reading definetely.

  3. hope they made backups on DVD-Rs/tape/etc. by MoFoQ · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    especially if they happen to use *cough*faulty*cough* drives (deathstar, some WD's, etc.).

    I wonder what sort of camera they used.
    If they were digital, wat sort of storage device (CF, SD, SM, MS, microdrive, paper&pencil, etc.) was used for the cameras (knowing the model of the camera will lead to the type of media)?