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So if you didn’t know, I was in Montreal for the weekend.. It was my first trip there, and well, yea.. Interesting city, a wee bit colder than I prefer in April (especially after a week in Miami for Conference) and of course Bal en Blanc.

After a crazy night/party that went through noon on Monday, I flew back to NYC on a 3pm flight, had a bit of sushi for dinner, and passed out at 7:30pm, roughly 38 hours after I awoke. I took some 800 pictures (after a delete sweep) and a half hour of HD video.. There will be 2 sets up very shortly, one for the “Event” and one for the “Guests”. All you lovely people who asked me to have their pictures taken (in French for the most part, so I was guessing!) fall into that guests category. And I’d like to thank you for making me run out of cards for the first time in years. You are most definitely the most photo friendly crowd I’ve shot that I can remember..

p.s. If you’re the one I gave my card to right as Armin was finishing (against the fence in the front of the trance room, find me on facebook please (it’s not hard).. Everyone else, sorry, but I keep my facebook friends to people I know in person..

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Mostly Done..

Posted on April 7th, 2009 by Peter

Ok, so these are done.. enjoy!

These are still in the queue.. I might have some time Thursday to get to them, not sure yet..

3-22 - @ Love
3-22 - @ Rebel
3-28 - Ultra Music Festival Saturday

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What’s taking so long?

Posted on April 6th, 2009 by Peter

People often wonder why it takes so long to get photos up.. So let me go over the process I go through, so you can understand where the time goes..

Delete sweep, nuke anything blury or with multiple shots of the same thing
Ratings pass (rate photos 1-5 stars, 2+ get posted)
Rating >= 2, fix lighting, straighten, crop as necessary
Export for peterdrier.com
Export to Facebook
Process into photo gallery, can do many galleries at once
Upload to peterdrier.com

Steps 3,4,5 are very processing intensive, and my poor 2.5 year old laptop really doesn’t like the new awesome 21 megapixel photos that my camera puts out.. And lets not even think about doing the HD video on it..

Thankfully, I have a new computer coming tomorrow. Once it’s all setup, things that took hours before should take minutes, literally.

FYI, all the sets I listed previously are somewhere between step 3 and 6. I have about 2 hours blocked off every night this week to get these done.

Thanks for your patience..

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They’re coming..

Posted on April 5th, 2009 by Peter

It’s 60 degrees outside, and I’m not out there thanks to this little backlog of photos I’ve built up.. But I’m getting through them and they should all be set by the time I go to bed tonight.. Here’s the list:

3-22 - @ Love
3-22 - @ Rebel
3-24 - Miami Randoms
3-25 - Deadmau5 @ Gansevoort Miami
3-25 - Josh Gabriel @ South beach house party
3-26 - Francois K @ Flawless House
3-26 - Anjuna Night @ Karu & Y
3-26 - Minus @ Karu & Y
3-28 - Ultra Music Festival Saturday
3-29 - Sunday School for Degenerates
4-04 - NewMindSpace Pillow Fight @ Wall Street
4-04 - Armin @ Roseland Ballroom

Between all of those, I started with about 5000 originals.. Do the math, and throw in my poor 2.5 year old laptop, and well the going is slow.. Cheers, Peter

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WMC ‘09 is over..

Posted on March 31st, 2009 by Peter

If you’ve come looking for photos I took over conference, it’s going to be a few days. After deleting the obviously bad ones, I was left with some 3000 photos and 6 gigabytes of video. And there are certain special folks (Betty, Soraya, Armin) who have to get their photos first for various reasons. So be patient and they’ll be here asap. -Peter

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