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So it's been a week since I got back from NYC and PPE. This is a belated entry because I came back elated but exhausted. It didn't help that it was minus 5 C and snowing here in our home...

I'm holed up in hotel in Amsterdam, madly trying to finish the book based on the Lightroom Tasmania Adventure. Working with the images from Tasmania has been absolutely awesome. Great stuff. And Lightroom? Well, it's awesome too. (I'm also on...

There are just two weeks left for a chance to win free trip onboard Qantas airlines to Tasmania! Sign up here. All of you who followed the Adobe Lightroom Adventure on the O’Reilly site know what a treasure Tasmania is. It’s photographers and travelers’ paradise and the Adventure team all came back thinking we had just been on a trip of a lifetime.

I've been playing with the Lightroom 2 public beta (free here) and finding some things I really like. Take the new Clarity, for example. Clarity controls are found under the Basic pane in the right panel of the Develop module. Traditionally, Lightroom's Clarity has been used for local contrast enhancement and gives dull images a "punch". With Lightroom 2, Clarity can have a reserve effect, a negative Clarity if you will. Negative values, (up to -100) when applied to a photo of, say, a face can give skin a smooth silky look (You can use reverse Clarity with the new localized adjustment tool as well). I was curious how negative Clarity might work on some of my Tasmanian landscapes and I was pleasantly surprised. Tasmania already has a romantic feel to it, but this simple adjustment really brought out the romantic quality even more, as you can see by looking at my Romantic Tasmania web gallery. I've also prepared a simple video that walks you through what I did using the public beta on one of the images. I'll post that shortly.

As a team member in Tasmania, trying to follow the activities of 24 photographers shooting over ten days could make one downright mad. One was likely to just get the crazy stories in bits and pieces - or hope to see an image or two. But of all of the photographers, what Bruce Dale was up to each day was the most mysterious to me. Bruce, long time national Geographic staff photographer (30 plus years I understand!), would dissolve each day into the Tasmanian landscape, to return at night with an impressive breadth of subjects. Not only did Bruce have stunning landscape images, but also intimate and rich visual stories of the people of Tasmania: A pirate wedding Bruce was invited to for example, or the slaughter of a pig - subjects only obtainable to photographers with the master key to all of the proverbial doors a photojournalist might want to enter! Bruce has put together a Lightroom gallery showing a bit of what he was up to in Tasmania, and it is stunning to say the least. The gallery shows off a bit of the photographic and journalistic skills a rich and full career at National Geographic can cultivate. You need to check it out! After seeing the gallery, I even more sorely regret not trying to tag along with Bruce like young grasshopper on one of his deep Tasmania day missions to learn what I could!

Lightroom Adventure Gallery 1 Lightroom Adventure Gallery 2 Team Photographers at Work Mikkel Aaland: Romantic Tasmania Mikkel_Aaland: Site Inspection Trip Melissa Gaul: Hobart Area Melissa Gaul: Tombstones Marcus Bell Jeff Pflueger Catherine Hall Robert Edwards Charlie Cramer Winston Hendrickson Bruce Dale

Lightroom is capable of much more than just organizing and developing a whole slew of images. It's really easy to create and post beautifully designed web galleries. We are presenting our images from the adventure in a variety of ways, including posting them to Digital Railroad. Click here to go to a page web gallery links and web galleries created using the Lightroom Web module.

Years ago, when I was illustrating a book on Shinto, the Japanese religion, I came up with a photographic style I called Sumi-e after the black ink, gestural art painting technique. This was long before Photoshop, and I used a...

Leo Laporte put together an awesome video from day one of the adventure featuring the photography and first day antics of Bruce Dale, Peter Krogh, Jackie King, and me. Check it out. Nice work Leo!...

April 1, 2008--Just two hours to go until we land in Sydney, Australia. It's still dark outside but I know the vast Pacific ocean is just below. Leo Laporte is asleep in the seat next to me.(See photo below. Click...

A few weeks ago I took a Qantas flight from San Francisco to Sydney to check out the locations for our adventure. I’ve never been to Australia before and frankly I dreaded the long flight. It turns out my fears...

The second Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Adventure is about to begin! In a little more than a week we are headed almost literally to the end of the world, to Tasmania, a small island off the southern coast of Australia. Tasmania...

Cologne, Germany--I'm winding up a week at Photokina, the world's largest photographic trade show held every two years here in Cologne. I spent a good deal of the week as a guest in the Adobe booth, talking up our Adobe Lightroom Iceland Adventure and showing off some of the tips and tricks we learned on our week long adventure in Iceland this summer.

Adobe announced the release of Lightroom Beta 4 today at Photokina. This version is a substantial update for both Windows and Mac users. I've been testing various builds of Beta 4 on a Mac since the Iceland Lightroom Adventure, and I can tell you from experience, that it's worth the download.

At the Photoshop World Keynote in Las Vegas yesterday, the guest Adobe representatives actually spent the bulk of their time showing the crowd new, cool features of not Photoshop but the "complementary product" designed particularly for photographers, Adobe Lightroom.

If you've been following the Adobe Lightroom Adventure to Iceland, you know that we've published a dozen galleries from members of the team. Viewing them, you might realize that some of them are using the current template available in Beta 3 for the Mac, and then others are, well, using something different.

On the first Saturday in Iceland I joined the group as they migrated north to Reykholt. This wasn't the easiest of decisions because I had a wedding waiting for me in the other direction, south of Reykjavik. But getting me back and forth would have proven difficult. I was disappointed, but figured something else would materialize.

Among my many eye-opening experiences in Iceland, I had a revelation about printing while participating in the reception at the Reykjavik Apple Store that final Friday. Instead of mounting our stacks of 13" x 19" prints and properly hanging them on the wall, we used removable Scotch tape and placed them haphazardly on the giant glass windows that illuminated the room. We also left some in stacks on counters where visitors could shuffle through them at their own pace.

San Francisco: Most of the team has packed up their gear and flown home safely from Iceland and the adventure. Many have already boarded planes and left for other destinations. John McDermott is off to Texas for a shoot. Richard Morgenstein --home for a day--then on a plane to shoot in LA. As I write John Isaac is enroute to Brazil. George Jardine is off to China. Addy Roff remains in Iceland, taking some well-deserved R & R with her family.

Reykjavik: Friday night's wrap-up party at the Apple store was a smashing success, just like the rest of the adventure. For me, the story of Iceland's Petar Jonasson, one of the 150 or so attendee's, highlights the evening, and epitomizes the entire week.