[Imc-g8-2005] G8 picture desk thoughts

[Anarcho Babe]

It would be great to have people who take on particular responsibilities 
and preferences.


The problem with the picture desk is that I see lots of different digital 
cameras approaching with various means of storing the pictures, so the main 
priority as I can see it would need to be a variety of means of getting 
these pictures off the storage device safely and quickly, then to 
manipulate them so they are at least smaller and compressed down to about 
650 pixels width/height and max 100 kb in seize each, but also run 
workshops on how to crop the pictures, make faces unrecognizable and 
similar, and also inform about creative Commons Licenses/Copyright.
I do think we would have more to worry about public access to the picture 
desk than the Indymedia photographers themselves.

I don't think a server/ftp solution would be possible.

Indymedia Scotland has a media gallery:
http://scotland.indymedia.org/media/index.php

Also uncompressed and unsized pictures are compressed and resized 
automatically via the media gallery.

cheers Ulla


On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 19:12:16 +0100, mini mouse <mini_mouse at riseup.net> 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In a previous e-mail I suggested I might be able to help out on a picture 
> desk, which seems to be have interpreted by some people as me saying I'd 
> run it!
>
> I don't necessarily have a problem with that, but there may be people 
> better qualified and more experienced - or more to the point may already 
> have this under control.
>
> So I'm certainly not voting myself in charge here (!) but I'm happy to 
> put a few things up for consideration to see where it goes.
>
> Firstly, I think the job can be split into two zones (maybe more, chip 
> in!)
>
> 1) Assistance to indy photographers under stressful conditions
>
> 2) Creating a pool of photographs for use by sympathetic media.
>
> 1: Photographers will almost exclusively be shooting digitally, and 
> anyone capturing compromising pictures (define as you will) will be 
> worried about confiscation. They will also have limited capacity on 
> datacards, and they will want to be able to publish quickly.
>
> Some will have their own laptops, many will prefer for whatever reason 
> not to.
>
> In the latter case we could offer a service in copying and burning their 
> data to CD, or even uploading compressed files to an FTP server off site. 
> Depending on server space we could offer them individual passworded 
> directories so they can access and edit when they have time.
>
> The important issue here is to enable photographers to get their data 
> safely away from where it can be confiscated.
>
> 2: Many indy photographers might subscribe to a pool arrangement where 
> their pictures could be used by sympathetic publications on a copyleft 
> basis. Their worry would be that if they got a unique and saleable 
> "scoop" they'd be ripped off by Fleet Street using it for free and 
> without credit. So some thought required there.
>
> That aside, we could connect their laptops (where they have them) and 
> free-use workstations (need CD drives & software, natch) one way to a 
> server containing a central pool of photographs. Anything they placed 
> there would be available for us to "publish".
>
> We could create a website (who has access and how do we control it?) 
> where those pictures are displayed sequentially (directories for each 
> hour/period of realtime) and, because we require the photographers to add 
> metadata (training?) have it searchable by pre-defined keywords.
>
> We have no way what the volume might be, so should there be a picture 
> editor with the mandate to decide what goes up? Or can we guarantee we 
> have enough space for that not to be an issue?
>
> Where this picture desk is I don't know. Photographers are most likely to 
> need zone 1 near Gleneagles itself where there are few safe facilities to 
> sort things out themselves. Maybe this satellite truck can be of some 
> assistance?
>
> The second role would be best sited at the permanent base, wherever that 
> is.
>
> Anyway that's it for now. Please chip in if you have any thoughts or 
> experience in all this.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
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