Other team members were responsible for cropping, colour correction and adjusting brightness, or captioning and sending images to clients and the Getty Images website. The team was kept busy – during the Rugby World Cup™ final, for example, they received over 2,000 images from photographers.
"During a live match it's very pressurised, but it's a fantastic job because we get to see these amazing images live," says James. "It's a privilege. We get to see history being made – for instance, images of a winning try, penalty or drop goal – before anyone else. We're also helping to create history by editing the photographs and sending them out to clients worldwide."
From the many thousands of Rugby World Cup 2019™ images that James saw, there are some shots that stood out from the crowd. Here, he selects his five personal favourite images from an exciting and incident-packed tournament, and tells us why he found them special.