27 July, 2005
Pi Media Networks Tour
Pi Media is one of the biggest US commercial studios. They shoot the whole Sears catalog, among other clients.
The Pi Media Networks Tour article from The Luminous Landscape is a brief look around the Pi Media studio, and how the photographers go about their work. Interestingly, the studio has been all digital since way back in 1998.
The studio is massive – over 200,000 square feet of studio and post-production space. They employ 400 people, including 40 photographers and all the various tradespeople and professionals required to build sets, prepare models, design page layouts and prepare work for printing.
I particularly envy the standard setup that each photographer uses – a Hasselblad H1 with Phase One digital back, tethered to a cart carrying an Apple G5, Lacie monitor and Capture One software, all connected back to the servers via gigabit ethernet. That’s probably a years’ salary for most people!
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