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So, a two newspaper wireless job tonight.
To enlighten the new sports photographers out there looking to do this, I was shooting live with images being FTP'd to a picture desk. I was on a twin deadline. First batch of images with all data written in by 10.15 so half time was ideal. The first paper is due out in the South West Saturday am.
The second deadline was 11.15pm as this was Bristol Evening paper which actually hits the shelf AM and has three incarnations during the day. So, speed the essence of the evening here. All shot on a D3 @ 6400 ISO with a 300mm F/2.8 lens which netted average shutter speeds due to poor light. However, work with what you have. Though I did have one card slot capturing JPEG, the other RAW in case of emergencies such is the D3's ability.
Overall, job done but entirely frustrating in that you have a camera as capable as the D3 and you have to drop you res and file sizes soooo much just so they can be sent on the UK's sloooowwww wireless service. Talking about editing these images down to under 1mb as they would simply take forever to send. To some it is a moot point as 72 dpi (newspaper print) renders it irrelivant but I would rather see these standing up as best they can.
Funny thing about shooting FA Football is the foibles involved - for example very few newspapers want take stock/individual images for print as this is classed as an icon image and the FA suggest that it costs revenue as fans cut them out of the paper. However, papers and clubs can ask for stock of certain players which they can reuse and never pay you for. It is a funny old game to paraphrase a once famous pundit.
Anyway, another shift in the bank and pennies towards a holiday - or a Canon 5D Mark II......????
To enlighten the new sports photographers out there looking to do this, I was shooting live with images being FTP'd to a picture desk. I was on a twin deadline. First batch of images with all data written in by 10.15 so half time was ideal. The first paper is due out in the South West Saturday am.
The second deadline was 11.15pm as this was Bristol Evening paper which actually hits the shelf AM and has three incarnations during the day. So, speed the essence of the evening here. All shot on a D3 @ 6400 ISO with a 300mm F/2.8 lens which netted average shutter speeds due to poor light. However, work with what you have. Though I did have one card slot capturing JPEG, the other RAW in case of emergencies such is the D3's ability.
Overall, job done but entirely frustrating in that you have a camera as capable as the D3 and you have to drop you res and file sizes soooo much just so they can be sent on the UK's sloooowwww wireless service. Talking about editing these images down to under 1mb as they would simply take forever to send. To some it is a moot point as 72 dpi (newspaper print) renders it irrelivant but I would rather see these standing up as best they can.
Funny thing about shooting FA Football is the foibles involved - for example very few newspapers want take stock/individual images for print as this is classed as an icon image and the FA suggest that it costs revenue as fans cut them out of the paper. However, papers and clubs can ask for stock of certain players which they can reuse and never pay you for. It is a funny old game to paraphrase a once famous pundit.
Anyway, another shift in the bank and pennies towards a holiday - or a Canon 5D Mark II......????
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