Apple - Pro/Photo - Kevin Foley, pg.2
Not a bad set up for taking digital photos (Story from Apple.com):Turning on the Spotlight
Today, the 100-percent pure digital photographer uses a 16-megapixel camera and depends on Macs — now equipped with Mac OS X Tiger’s new features such as Spotlight — for assignments that take him all over the world.
“Sometimes, for editorials, my clients make the choices from the original file numbers — usually it’s something like ZX045D6934,” Foley explains. “The good news is that all I have to do is copy and paste that file number into Spotlight, and it will search all six Macs and external drives in our office and tell me exactly where the file is. I just copy the file to my desktop and I’m on my way retouching. Even better, Spotlight comes up with a preview of the RAW file and I know for sure that’s the image I want — which is so much better than trying to fumble through DVDs.”
Archive Management
On assignment, Foley shoots about 23 gigs of information a day — 100 to 120 frames per subject — which he copies from his PowerBook onto a 400-gig external drive. Then he burns a DVD of the day’s shoot.
