Adobe Iceland Adventure: Practical Lesson #4

Fosshotel Reykholt : The adventure is going very smoothly. Everyone on the team is filling their Sandisk cards with great photos and we are quickly getting up to speed using Adobe Lightroom to edit and process and print our images. However, there is one problem: lack of sleep in catching up with me and I'm starting to make stupid mistakes and see the glass as half empty. Derrick, legs shown here, is also suffering.

Right now, Monday night at 11 pm, most of the team is in the conference room provided by Fosshotel Reykohlt. We've set up 2 Epson 2400 printers and a Epson digital projector. (Thank you Epson!) Adobe's George Jardin and Melissa Gaul are giving instructions on how to use the output module of Lightroom and I desperately want to hear what they have to say.

Last night we ran into some snags trying to print images to share at our Friday night wrap/closing party at the Apple store in Reykjavik. We couldn't figure out how to add additional lines of descriptive text with Lightroom's Print Identity plate. George and Melissa promised to provide answers. But I'm so fried, I just want to just lay on the bed and relax and think about the day.

My group started shooting at 8 am. Derrick and I had been up most of the night trying to upload images to the site and post our blogs. Besides Derrick and me, it was Richard Morgenstein and Martin Sundberg in the van. We headed toward the fishing town of Stykkisholmur, thinking we'd grab the ferry to Flatey, an island about an hour trip away. Again, it took us forever to go a short distance and we quickly realized we wouldn't make any of the scheduled ferry trips. We stopped at every river, horse, waterfall and sheep, piling out of the van like an army on a mission.

Fatigue, however, made me clumsy and forgetful and my picture taking went badly.