







This is my simple setup for on-ice editing. I have one or two cameras (usually with a 70-200 and a fish eye lens). Today, I shot with the 70-200 and used a Pocketwizard, which is hanging off the glass, to fire a remote camera behind the far goal.

Now, with the ever increasing immediacy of the Internet age, They want me posting images at each break. So that means that, when the buzzer sounds at the end of the first period of hockey, I have 14 minutes to download my photos (I shoot full RAW), go through them, edit, resize them and upload to Team USA. And I need to do this so that I am ready to start shooting again at the start of the next period. No pressure!





This is the setup in my "hotel" room. There I am using a Wacom Cintiq Companion Hybrid tablet for fine tuning images. I am also using Western Digital Passport Ultra drives to backup in 3 different locations.





Here is my routine:





* At the buzzer, I eject the Lexar memory card and put it into the USB 3.0 reader

* Photo Mechanic comes up asking for a folder name to download to and asks for IPTC info.

* I have already created a folder with the appropriate name (usually something like "20140212_Hockey_USA_vs_Canada_Women")

* I enter the IPTC data (something like "USA vs Canada (Women) Hockey"

* I start reviewing the photos as they are downloading, and try to find the best of the bunch

* I mark the best with a color rating, so that I can filter for just those.

* I go through all the photos from that period and then filter to show only the winners.

* I quickly go into Photoshop to tweak each of the best (exposure, contrast, crop...) and save the file appended with "Edit_"

* After I have done this to the best, I need to caption them with the names of the athletes. For this I have created a document called a replacement code file with every player on Team USA, men and women. I can type in "/26w/" and Photo Mechanic will insert "USA Hockey's KENDALL COYNE (#26)"

* Before sending the photos off to the team or the wire service, I have a preset in Photo Mechanic to resize the photo, and all the FTP info is pre-stored. One touch of the button and off they go.

* I then eject the card from the reader, pop it back in the camera and start shooting the next period.





Usually, by the time the game is over and I am finished with everything, the images have already been posted on the USA Hockey Olympic page and the wire service





Oh - and somewhere in between each of the events, I sit down to write a blog.















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Wow - how things have changed in just a few years! As you all probably guessed, all of us Olympic photographers have short deadlines. When I first shot the Olympics, my contract allowed me 12 hours to go through the photos and get them back to the team. When I photographed the Summer Olympics in London, my deadline was shortened to 2 hours. That means that I would have to go through thousands of photos, pick the best, edit them and submit them to the team within a couple of hours.