So I finally got around to uploading my photos from the New York Comic Con 2009 on Flickr. It’s taken so long because I couldn’t get a dedicated weekend to spend the time necessary to go through them all, but with this weekend’s stormy weather, up they went.

Anyway, you can see the entire set here:
http://tinyurl.com/nycc09

To give you an idea of the reason it took so long, for two straight days…
- I went through and converted all the pictures from RAW to JPG, adjusting the images as needed before converting
- Then I added my signature frame and copyright tag to all of them
- Then once that was completed I went through image by image and deleted any I didn’t like or that were too blurry or had other problems (down to 512 from a little over 600).
- Then I batch uploaded them to Flickr on private settings (only I can see them) which took two tries as the first batch had a problem and quit after 230 were uploaded. Total upload time was something like 15-20 hours (flickr uploadr is SLOW! but nessecary) as the batch was something like 2.9 gigs worth of photos.
- Once everything was all on Flickr I created a set for them and organized them in the set
- I then went through and added a first layer of tags that were universal to all the pictures (New York Comic Con 2009 etc)
- I then went through and did a second layer of tags for any pictures featuring Cosplayers and one for panels
- I then enetered a third layer going picture by picture, sometimes in small batches adding specific tags and descriptions for each photo’s contents (i.e. naming characters, panelists, people, places etc.)
- After all this was done, I removed the privacy option and added them to the global flickr area so anyone could view them

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