{"id":1792,"date":"2004-07-29T16:10:44","date_gmt":"2004-07-29T21:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=537"},"modified":"2004-07-29T16:10:44","modified_gmt":"2004-07-29T21:10:44","slug":"webcast-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1792","title":{"rendered":"Webcast Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transweb.org\/\">Transweb<\/a> site is being updated as we speak.  I just realized that I wasn&#8217;t terribly specific about what my job is here.  Basically, we&#8217;ve got photographers and writers at as many events as we can cover.  The photogs have digital cameras and they shoot between 200-400 pictures at each event.  Between events, they stop by the office and transfer the pictures to me.  I go through and pick the best shots for use on the web, then I crop, rotate, scale &amp; convert them before uploading them to the site server where the page layout crew puts them up for public consumption.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThere are roughly nine events every day, plus opening and closing ceremonies, which means that I&#8217;m going to be sorting through about ten thousand photos before the games are through.  Sorting, rotating, cropping&#8230;  I&#8217;ve got batch processes for things like converting them to web sized images, so that speeds things up a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Another advantage is that I don&#8217;t actually have to start working on things until the photographers are actually back from events.  This means I get to sleep in a bit&#8230;  Of course, I wind up staying up late at night to finish the images they bring later in the day, so I guess it kind of balances out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Transweb site is being updated as we speak. I just realized that I wasn&#8217;t terribly specific about what my job is here. Basically, we&#8217;ve got photographers and writers at as many events as we can cover. The photogs have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1792\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}