Sports Illustrated Digital Workflow
Rob Galbraith has a fascinating article on the digital workflow of SI's photography team. It talks about the unspeakable benefits of digital over analog cameras to a magazine that sorts through 1 million photos a year.
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But Fine, who is Sports Illustrated's Director of Photography, has a monstrous job in front of him, and there's no such thing as too much computer. He's chewing through SI's take from Super Bowl XXXVIII, 16,183 digital pictures shot in Houston's Reliant Stadium by eleven of the magazine's staff photographers over the course of about six hours. It's 11:00pm, an hour-and-a-half after the game has ended, and Fine is stashed in SI's media trailer outside the stadium with six other SI employees. The photographers, their work done, left half an hour before.
