DATELINE ROCHESTER: Home sweet home.  It's been a little over a week since the flame of the Olympic torch in Beijing was put to rest and the Olympic Flag passed on to the city of London.  So between this blog, written for the slightly geeky and statistically minded, and one to follow for the more photographically inclined, here are a few facts, figures and pictures of the events. 

Over the course of 17 days, the photographs came from 43 different events/sessions, covering 22 different sports or disciplines. Two of the events were the Opening (which lasted forever) and Closing (which was short and sweet) ceremonies.



The total number of pictures shot was in excess of 23,000 - an exact count is tough because the total number is actually 20,326 saved images plus the number of shots that were "chimped" (see definition below) in the camera.  Those 20,326 images accounted for 357.53 gigabytes of data which is comprised of the NEF/Raw + JPEG and XMP files for each image.

Never being one to be accused of tightly editing, 6132 images were selected and run through Photoshop for cropping and correction, then compressed down to 4.03 gigabytes of data and transferred via FTP to Rochester and other points for storage. 

Gymnastics takes the award for the most images captured at 2503 with the Women's All-around winning the highest number of images shot in a single session with 863. Field Hockey was lowest with 74 (we arrived at the game with 10 minutes to go).

The average number of images per session came in it at 473. Counting all of the different ways the images were edited, manipulated, compressed and saved, the total gigabytes of storage was 553. The prediction in the first blog was 700 gig.  That was meant to be total storage; in any event, the number came up short.

And despite a valiant effort on behalf of my colleague and IT guru Ken Harvey, we were never able to transfer all of the raw files to Rochester - even running multiple FTP streams simultaneously 24/7.  We learned a lot about total bandwidth and useable bandwidth.

So here are some of my favorite images of the event with more to follow tomorrow.







































Somewhere between jet lag and reality
Richard
The Photon Wrangler

Definition:
Chimping is a term used in digital photography (especially when using a digital single-lens reflex camera) to describe the habit of checking every photo on the on-camera display (LCD) immediately after capture.
Usage behavior varies depending on context and the person, but common uses include:

• When a photographer's sounds and actions of reviewing frames on-scene appear similar to the actions of an excited primate (Oooh! Oooh! Aaah!)
• When the photographer is completely absorbed in the act of analyzing, admiring or proudly showing a photo off to others

Origin of the term:
The term 'chimping' is attributed to Robert Deutsch, a USA Today staff photographer, in September of 1999 when writing a story for the SportsShooter email newsletter.

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