Inside my car editing and transmitting after the HHSAA Div. II girls volleyball championship…

With all this digital photo business, we are able to send our pictures direct from the event venue. Which is great, we can spend more time shooting, and can still make the paper’s deadline. This works well for spot-news stuff and sports which usually run pretty late at night.

Every photographer has his or her own way of working under deadlines, but I’ll share how I go about it.

As I’m shooting an event, say last night’s v-ball championship, while I’m shooting, I’ll take mental notes of good plays, etc., as they happen. When everything is over, I’ll run out to my car (or sometimes, depending on the event, run to a corner in the gym) and get started.

I download my CF cards to my laptop, and then open the files using the Photoshop browser (a lot of people use Photo Mechanic, too), and start sifting through looking for pictures. At the same time, I’ll fire up my wireless air card, and open an FTP client. After I find a picture, I’ll crop it, do very light (if any) exposure/color correction (our laptops aren’t the greatest when it comes to doing corrections — it’s best left to the person working the desk in the office), add the caption to the File Info dialogue box in the file, and toss that image into the FTP bin.

Lather, rinse, repeat…

…until I’ve sent all I need to send for the night. It usually takes me about 15-20 minutes to edit/send 5-10 photos (saved at about “8″ or “9″ in the jpeg quality scale).

Once everything is sent, I call the photo desker in the office, who will then take the photos off the FTP, and put them into the system at the office.

Of course, sometimes I have more time, and other times I have less, but the workflow is generally the same for most situations.

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