Getty gallery

Last chance tomorrow to see the Getty Archive motor sport exhibition at their galley in London:chflag:

thanks for the plug happy snapper. next up is an athens olympic exhibition, if anyones interested.

Went to the the Gallery today, well worth the visit :winner:

i shall pass on your compliments jase. i have a le mans picture on the wall, but i still haven't seen it yet...i hope they've not dismantled it totally before i pass by tomorrow morning!

Which was your picture kdr?

a 917 and a GT40 going past the main grandstand at the legends race in 2003. i think it made it on to the wall...it was in the final selection anyway. when i went there this morning they were all down off the wall and covered in bubblewrap..so i can't be 100% sure!

Yes sure they were there, wait know and see whats next..

our athens olympic exhibition is next. its very good. even if you're only interested in motorsport it would be a good one to view if you're in london before xmas, especially as its only a hundred yards off oxford street! a few of the snappers we had out in athens also cover a lot of motorsport...so you might see some cycling panning pictures!

Originally posted by jase
Went to the the Gallery today, well worth the visit :winner:

:chflag: Yes it was great, smaller than I'd imagined but very good (when we finally found it....!)

Originally posted by Piglet
:chflag: Yes it was great, smaller than I'd imagined but very good (when we finally found it....!)
Try holding the map the other way up or just hand the map to Jase:beer:

Originally posted by Piglet
:chflag: Yes it was great, smaller than I'd imagined but very good (when we finally found it....!)

i'm scared to tell you its actually now about 5 times the size of the building it used to be in!

alas, kdr, I'm 3 or 4000 miles too far away to have come, would've loved to though.

djb i'm afraid theres no link on our website to see all the motorsport exhibtion images online...but i made one up yesterday for the athens olympic exhibition which previews tonight. will post the link maybe tomorrow, if anyones interested they can have a look.

shall keep an eye out. Too bad I didn't get the details of the Athens show beforehand, talked recently with my sister who lives in Wales and she's off to see London for 3 days and I would have given here the address.

cheers

djb we've only done a sort of flashplayer version of some of the athens exhibition, it requires flashplayer i'm afraid. heres the link anyway...its quite cool if it works, you have to click on "launch gallery"

http://corporate.gettyimages.com/athens2004/BestOfGames/index.html?camefrom=creativelid

Originally posted by kdr
djb we've only done a sort of flashplayer version of some of the athens exhibition, it requires flashplayer i'm afraid. heres the link anyway...its quite cool if it works, you have to click on "launch gallery"

http://corporate.gettyimages.com/athens2004/BestOfGames/index.html?camefrom=creativelid

I have just had a look and there are some fantastic pictures :winner: I would recommend everyone to take a look.

thanks rob. to any sports photographer of any discipline, the olympic games should be the ultimate goal.



afer le mans of course. ;)

K, thanks for the link, it works, but am home with a slow phone hookup so will check it out tomorrow at work, not patient enough at 11:30pm to wait for the 4.7mbs to load.

K, have been up to the ying-yang with post-prod here at work and that along with the usual family stuff has had me running off from work as soon as I can, and hence only now took a peek at the Olympics link.

Yup, you said it, colour, crowds, intensity, you name it and its there. Are obviously many that stand out, neat gallery sequence, works well. Liked the torch carrying runner at a slow pan with the fortuitous flash thrown in, I've had that happen a few times and its always a nice surprise. All the rest is just plain inspiring to look at and a nice edit job.

I briefly went through to see if any were taken by anyone with a name resembling a K or a D or a R, but didn't see them all. Were any yours or were you there as an editor? Just the editing job must be one hell of job. This year sometime there was a good web article about the people involved in editing the last Superbowl for Sports Illustrated mag. I believe, gave a good idea of what was involved, numbers of shots gone through and how they went at it hammer and tongs.

cheers

i was at the olympics as an editor...then back out two weeks later to the paralympics in a more editing/liasion/photographic role. both were extremely satisfying and very hard work in their own way. my athens paralympics images are on the getty site if you look for a K and an R !

i read that piece on s.i. via sportsshooter.com - very interesting and pretty much like our operation. for instance i think we took roughly 10,000 frames at the opening ceremony alone. i got one of those lucky flash pictures at the paralympic opening ceremony as well...i really feel whoever fired it off should get a credit also!

i read that piece on s.i. via sportsshooter.com - very interesting and pretty much like our operation. for instance i think we took roughly 10,000 frames at the opening ceremony alone. i got one of those lucky flash pictures at the paralympic opening ceremony as well...i really feel whoever fired it off should get a credit also!

kdr..

I like those shots of yours on the Getty site from The London International Horse Show yesterday.. Very nice colours.. Do you have to do the post production yourself or do picture editors do that for you (unless they're like that out of the camera, of course, in which case my apologies for the insult!!!)..

Regards

david

thanks...my first time shooting horses(that has a familiar ring?!)....i didn't really get the ins and outs of it till later...ie...you could stand and shoot in the corner of the competitors area if you were wearing a dark suit and tie.

my colleague sent his pictures in via a phone card, i used a line in the press room. i captioned in fotostation and then gave them a very very small tidy up in photoshop before sending them to our picture desk. they probably worked on them a little, they have properly calibrated screens so can correct...errr...correctly. they obviously did a good job as the originals were shot at approx 1000asa, 400 @ 2.8.

thats about the limit of my technical knowledge i'm afraid!

kdr..

I've shot a few donkeys in my time!! (and for the benefit of the tree huggers.. not really..)..

We're looking at 3G datacards at the moment, are you guys using them?

i still use an older nokia card, but more or less everyone else has been upgraded to the vodafone 3G card and swear by them. i'm still playing catch up with the technology, the trouble is by the time i learn something...they've invented something new!

as we don't do pure press stuff, we still just use firewire card readers and a laptop, or sometimes shoot tethered, so I am a real luddite when it comes to what you're discussing (plus, i think cell/mobile use is much more advanced in Europe than here) What sort of final file sizes do you transfer to the phones before sending them off? I'm assuming you're shooting jpegs, not raw, but then even if you were converting them to jpeg from raw, a 5x7@300 at jpeg 10 is still about a meg or 1500k, even saved at 8 its around 800k, and thats still for a 5x7, not a 6,6x10 6mb camera original, less obviously for a 4mb, and more for Mk11 8 mb. Is this the sort of file sizes that you send off with the cell phones and what sort of times are involved to send off an "X" kilobyte file. Just curious as its an aspect of deadline press photography that I've never dealt with, and I really should at least go from a capital "L" Luddite to a plain "l" luddite......

cheers from a really bloody cold Montreal, -25c at the moment, yesterday it was around 0c, so go figure, thats December for you, up and down like a toilet seat.

djb..

Upto about 1Mb jpegs converted from raw after post production are the norm for transfers.. Lucky in that quite a few circuits over here now have wireless or hard wired broadband access, that makes things easy peasy.. Eleswhere, it's 56k dial-up modem and wait.. I never use GPRS, too slow, but will be looking at 3G mobile network cards..

info on Vodafone 3G cards (http://www.vodafone.co.uk/cgi-bin/COUK/portal/ep/browse.do?channelPath=%2FVodafone+Portal%2FBusiness+Services%2FVodafone+Mobile+Connect+Card%2FMobile +Connect+Data+Card+Range%2F3G+GPRS&BV_SessionID=@@@@1342583624.1103583492@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccjadddfmiggkgcflgcegjdgnfdffo.0)

kdr..

I think we'll be looking at 3G very carefully this year, at least for Europe.. having said that, uplink is still only marginally faster than dial up.. it's downloading that's fast on these cards..

So, roll on proper wireless access throughout..

oh my head is hurting with all these numbers. you'll have to forgive me...i still shot around 20 rolls of velvia at this years le mans! so i am also one of those luddites!

i have a d1x and d1h, i think when i send the jpegs they're usually down to between 4 - 7 mb depending on the crop and how grim the weather is. i did rugby a fortnight ago and sent across 8 images via gprs, probably took around 30 minutes...can't quite remember, it was cold, i was sending them from the touchline and my legs went numb!

does any of this make sense?!?! forget the photography training...snapping is easy compared to this!

again, forgive the questions, but am I right in thinking that the series of unfortunate events goes as such, one shoots, gets the jpegs or raws into a laptop, muck about with them as one wishes, save as jpegs at desired compression (normal up to now for me) and then you transfer your finals saved as jpgs to your phone? and then dial your home base and send them in, captioned etc.

David, when you mention how the downloading on the 3G thingee is faster, is it the transfer from laptop to phone that has improved, so the transfer rate has increased greatly from previous phone memory? and not just from a faster wire (meaning usb2 vs firewire or regular usb) but in the way that a newer hard drive has faster transfers from one machine to another (from our laptops to the new G5, via old firewire, 1 gig takes only about a minute now compared to I think twice that for the old G4 being used before).

GPRS? is this an anacronym for a type of mobile transmission? and you seem to infer that it is slower than a 56k modem. Again, from my lack of mobile knowledge, I would have thought that a wireless mobile transmission or hard wired 56k would have the same amount of speed. But then again, this 3G selling point seems to be the live video sending, so the transmission must be a heck of alot faster (thanks for link btw) Around here, 56k is usually about 4 or 5k/second, and yes of course, any sort of easy-peasy broadband is the way to go.

If you're both sick of my questions, I understand if you don't feel like reexplaining the wheel. With the commercial stuff I work with, we never have to send things in "right now", we'll set up web galleries for clients to look at and select, and then email 5x7 size jpegs, or FTP them, or burn a CD and courrier it over, so thats about it, and of course some traditional film work that still happens sometimes (2 1/4)

K, these last fews years have brought so much more to learn hasn't it? I'd have to say that I enjoy it, but being in a small 2 person business, I do all the post-production, archiving, general Mac organizing (updates, problems, keeping an eye out for all the new things) a good chunk of the editing, oh and mustn't forget, some shooting too...

djb...being part of a larger business we have people that set everything up for you so that its (fingers crossed) ready to go. someone with a bit more "hands on" experience will hopefully be able to explain how it all technically works and whats the best method.

this is really just the "live" side of things...much of our day to day is the same as yours...lightboxes, cds, emails, etc. but as you say theres more things coming on board every day...wifi etc etc. i think somewhere one of these threads started with a question about photography itself...........!

i think somewhere one of these threads started with a question about photography itself...........!

true true true, enough of the techno babble...
so I'll finish by seconding what the other David said about your horse competition shots, a beautiful venue to shoot at, 400@2.8 notwithstanding, and a nice mix of the inside ambiant and the outside that allowed you to make those shots showing the windowed ceiling, like the horizontal of the horse and rider rounding a pylon or something with the roof/blue sky above, really nice shot. not to mention the closeup of the jumper, good stuff.

happy holidays too

Hi KDR,
Could I please ask a question about the Getty Images Gallery, I work in Newman Street which is at the end of Eastcastle Street so I walk past the gallery on the way to work every day. Unfortunately I start at 8am and finish at 8pm so I'm stuck at work when the gallery is open. During the Motorsport exhibition the blinds were down out of opening hours so I was unable to see many of the pictures in great detail (and without looking like a criminal casing the place!) but with the Olympic exhibition the blinds are never closed. Just wondering why this is??

Sorry about the really long post for a question about a past event. From what I could see they were great pictures (liked the NASCAR pitstop picture)

Thanks, Paul

tuscanR - sorry i have no answer to that one. i'll ask them in the new year if theres any reason.

Thanks for the reply KDR, sorry if I'm a bit slow at responding stuck on nights at the moment.

if anyones interested theres some interesting IRL portraits on the gettyimages.com site at present. just look under the name robert laberge in the search box. if this post constitutes advertising could one of the mods please remove it.

a dark studio, release cable, some glow-sticks and the lack of ritalin and presto, you too can make Derek Manning look like a magician! (now you see me turning right, now you don't---sorry, I know, bad joke)

Pretty cool stuff, some work better than others, but are certainly different than the standard driver mug shots aren't they?

(and yes, crossing the runoff road at the Porsche Curves was done with a timed dash and a breath of relief once humped up the banking on the other side, if a brake failure happened, it wouldn't leave much time would it?)

cheers, and always appreciate any plugs to interesting shots.

a dark studio, release cable, some glow-sticks and the lack of ritalin and presto, you too can make Derek Manning look like a magician! (now you see me turning right, now you don't---sorry, I know, bad joke)

Pretty cool stuff, some work better than others, but are certainly different than the standard driver mug shots aren't they?

i liked the scott dixon one best...it really works well the red lights with the red overalls. robert the photographer(another canuck djb) actually asked me what was the chances of getting schumi to pose for the same type of shot. eerrrrrrr....i'll get back to you on that one was my reply!