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The Rundown...
May 10, 2007So...how many "keepers" did i end up with from Austin?
Well, I shot nearly 650 the entire two days. Now, that's three golf teams on two different courses and two tennis doubles teams (because I can't be in two places at once...or three places).
Now, I know the good folks out in Vernon and Holliday will fire off e-mails and Sound Offs to the sports dept. because they didn't have any pictures in the paper. But neither did most of the tennis teams that were ran out of the first round.
It's a simple question of logistics. The 3A tennis was way out in Lakeway, quite a distance from the more centrally located UT campus in proximity to the golf courses.
Plus, they were pretty much playing at the same time as the Rider teams in the semi-finals and finals. Sadly, the choice to cover the city school was an easy one.
Sorry.
Anywho, 650 dosen't sound like a lot of photos compared to what I shot during the UIL state soccer tournament. And it isn't. But there is a reason.
Golf isn't a constant action sport. It's a pick and choose your spot kinda sport. Plus, trying to scatter-shoot 15 golfers isn't fun or easy. I much prefer the Texas/Oklahoma Junior where I'm basically only responsible for shooting the leaders and can follow them on the course.
Okay...so 650 total shots.
I turned in 39 shots for publication. Those were the best of the keepers and tryign to get at least one of everybody I could.
Now...after going through and editing out the ones that were out of focus, or missed peak action, I'm left with 356 photos.
These are what I would consider the keepers. Not all of them peak action, but all of them good enough to provide a file photo of a particular player for later if need be.
Why save so many you might ask...because you never know what you'll need at some point. Best example lately, Archer City pitcher Andrew Swinhoe who was injured in a car accident a few weeks ago.
I happened to have a good photo from last year, and we ran that in the newspaper to accompany a story about him. Basically, it saves the day to have file art that you can find.
Which brings up the other point...
I am going to put as much of a caption on all 350+ photos as I can, including names and whatnot. We don't have a good archiving system up here at work, which really sucks when you need it.
But I have a good system at home, and can search through my entire database of photos (some 130 gigs of files currently) and pull up any photo with a certain keyword I need.
For example, if I need a shot of the Rider QB...all I have to do is type in "Rider quarterback" into my program and all of the photos on my system matching that in the caption info will come up.
Brilliant...I know. But thats probably how it should be done period.
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