
When photographers shoot important events, digitally, they shoot pictures, edit them on the fly and then email them off, live from the event for the AP to pick up, etc. Using Automator and other programs, Apple has simplified this process for 1 Olympics photographer:
How They Did It
Capture and Ingest
After filling a flash card with images, Vincent Laforet needed only to insert it into a card reader attached to his PowerBook and immediately return to shooting.
Image Capture allowed an automatic download of the flash card images into a specific folder on the PowerBook, and its auto-run script option allowed an Automator script to be launched after all images had been copied locally.
That script separated RAW and JPEG images into two different folders, moved the JPEGs into the public folder (so others could see via AFP), copied the large JPEGs into another folder for resizing, scaled and recompressed larger JPEGs into smaller ones, and labeled the finished small JPEGs folder so that the photo editor would know that the task is complete.
Remote Transmission
Personal file sharing allowed Laforet’s picture editor in another venue to connect with the public folder on Laforet’s laptop, which had a static IP address. Laforet’s public folder mounted on the editor’s desktop for browsing in Aperture.
Optimized Photo-Edit

Jeremiah Bogert, Laforet’s picture editor, browsed the photographer’s nearly 2000 low-res images using Aperture’s multi-image viewer and Light Table features for side-by-side comparisons on a 30-inch Apple Cinema Display.
Bogert copied the final “selects†— five to ten large JPEG images — from Laforet’s PowerBook to his own computer, where he opened them to verify integrity and focus, and sharpen and crop if necessary.

Transfer
An FTP client was used to transfer six final large JPEG images to the Times for publication on the web and in the newspaper.
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