Interested in Sports Illustrated photography?

This really is Panthers-related.

MP posted a link to an SI article from the Super Bowl about Jake sticking around to watch the Pats celebrate.

Reminded me of another great SI-related article from the Panthers' Super Bowl appearance, this one about the photography workflow that Sports Illustrated goes through for an event like this. Since it's obviously 5 years old, all of the technical details (what computers, what software) are all out-dated. But the process is still basically the same, and the article's just fascinating.

It is for me, anyway. But I'm a photographer. So I'm reading through the Photoshop stuff going "Oh, really?" And it's interesting as a time capsule piece about the industry conversion from film to digital, which magazines were the last to embrace.

But I think anybody can really enjoy quotes like this: "I've never seen so many guys say so many good things about their own take, and there's nothing but shit on the screen."

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r3

You never put up any photos from last years TC. What gives? You dogged my pictures (which I admitted sucked) yet didn’t provide your own. You keep saying you are a ‘photographer’ yet I see no proof ;) Got to see it to believe it.

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by Jaxon on May 14, 2009 12:13 PM EDT reply actions

Ha! Owned!

Yeah, I had a crappy lens with me last year, because I didn’t want to be bogged down with gear, just wanted to watch the goings on. I’ve still got a bunch of photos that I never processed sitting on my archive drive. I’ll dig through those and see if there’s anything worth showing to the world.

by r3 on May 15, 2009 1:19 PM EDT up reply actions