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March 08, 2006
How to Edit 40,000 Photos In A Day
From PDN Online: How To Edit 40,000 Photos In A Day. Short on tech details, long on celebrity snipes, but shows the importance of having a really robust image management system in place.
By now, technology has advanced so far that US Weekly photo editors can cover the Oscars from the comfort of a catered conference room in Midtown Manhattan. The magazine is linked to WAM!NET, a secure computer network that pulls captioned, keyworded digital pictures directly from photo agencies and sorts them all into a single database. Pictures from the big wire services like the Associated Press and Getty Images appear alongside smaller celebrity agencies like Celebrity Magic.
Fees are paid to the agencies later, based on space rates negotiated in advance. The agencies will leaf through the actual magazine, measure how much space each of their photos takes up, and send a bill. Rates vary, but typical Oscar photos cost a few hundred bucks, says photo director T. Brittain Stone.
Stone spends most of the morning running around the office to distribute printouts of fresh photos as they arrive. He estimates that 40,000 Oscar-related pictures will come in.
Posted by Joshwa at March 8, 2006 08:03 PM