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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 gordyf · · Score: 4, Informative

    From what I understand, cameras that use a RAW mode are saving all the output from the CCD, without any processing at all. You can then load it into a program and apply exposure compensation, lighting adjustments and whatnot, rather than having the camera do the image processing.

    Saving as a PNG would require turning the raw CCD data into an image, which is defeating the point.

  2. Mod Parent Troll by corren · · Score: 4, Informative

    Can you say RTFA?

    ...and to two HP Proliant DL380 servers with dual-Xeon 2.4GHz processors, 1.5GB of RAM, and twin Ultra-III SCSI hard drives. (One of these servers, attached to a Sony CPD-G520 21" monitor, is Steve Fine's editing machine.)