Vince shoots raw he even had to fight the NY Times to let him shoot raw when away and on assigment.
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I had read Vincent's comment in a write-up where he was describing his work flow - I believe it was for Apple and was a description of capturing something like 25,000 images on Hawaii for Canon's use in a 30D brochure. The same comments were made in a article by Eamon Hickey on Rob Galbraith's site:
[a href=\"http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=7-6454-6928]http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_pag...cid=7-6454-6928[/url]
The pertinent bit:
"Laforet shoots JPEGs almost exclusively. He almost always uses one of the manual white balance presets or dials in a direct Kelvin temperature (and in non-aerial work will sometimes check a test shot on his laptop to verify the color temperature). He turns in-camera sharpening off, and uses Color Matrix 1.
Laforet favors JPEG files for the obvious reasons: speed of processing/editing and smaller file size. 'I tend to shoot a lot,' he says, explaining that vibrations and the position of obstacles such as the helicopter's skids and rotors are impossible to predict. 'So you counteract that by hammering [the motor drive]. Sometimes everything is moving so fast, you can't really see what you're shooting, and you just hope you get one good frame in there.' At the same time, 'you've got to be careful [about overshooting]. Editing aerials is really time-consuming, because it's all about little details. And I'm almost always doing it on deadline.'
In a more recent post on Digital Photo Pro (
http://www.digitalphotopro.com/art/still-a-photographer) Vincent says: "'I shoot RAW, no exception.' Regardless of for whom he's shooting, Laforet always acquires images in Camera Raw, not RAW + JPEG, because of the way he integrates Apple Aperture into his workflow. "It would just be a waste of time," he says. "My basic workflow is to shoot the highest quality you can. I then import my images into Aperture with an Automator plug-in."
But then see an Apple Pro profile where his capture is described as RAW + JPEG:
http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/laforet/index2.html"Capture and Ingest
After filling a flash card with images, Laforet needed only to insert it into a card reader attached to his PowerBook and immediately return to shooting.
Image Capture allowed an automatic download of the flash card images into a specific folder on the PowerBook, and its auto-run script option allowed an Automator script to be launched after all images had been copied locally.
That script
separated RAW and JPEG images into two different folders, moved the JPEGs into the public folder (so others could see via AFP), copied the large JPEGs into another folder for resizing, scaled and recompressed larger JPEGs into smaller ones, and labeled the finished small JPEGs folder so that the photo editor would know that the task is complete.
Remote Transmission
Personal file sharing allowed Laforet’s picture editor in another venue to connect with the public folder on Laforet’s laptop, which had a static IP address. Laforet’s public folder mounted on the editor’s desktop for browsing in Aperture.
Optimized Photo-Edit
Jeremiah Bogert, Laforet’s picture editor, browsed the photographer’s nearly 2000 low-res images using Aperture’s multi-image viewer and Light Table features for side-by-side comparisons on a 30-inch Apple Cinema Display.
Bogert copied the final “selects” — five to ten large JPEG images — from Laforet’s PowerBook to his own computer, where he opened them to verify integrity and focus, and sharpen and crop if necessary.
Transfer
An FTP client was used to transfer six final large JPEG images to the Times for publication on the web and in the newspaper."
So he shoots - ... perhaps deelig has the most up-to-date info.
Back to the tilt-sift - here's a recent Laforet tilt-shift for Newsweek from the summer games - second image down:
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/olympicpix/...10-seconds.aspx
