Adobe Iceland Adventure: Practical Non-Lesson #4

We are at Fosshotel Nesbud, and the weather has gone from good to fantastic. (As you can see by the photo I took this morning shown here.) All the Icelanders want us to stay a few weeks longer: they believe we've pleased the Viking gods with our visit and that explains the first good weather of the summer. I'm exaggerating a little...but we've had amazingly good luck. I'm actually hoping for a little rain tomorrow so the team will be inspired to hang out in the conference room and print with the Epson printers and prepare images for the our big Friday night bash at the Apple store in Reykjavik.

Everyone continues to get proficient with Adobe Lightroom and impressed with its capabilities as well. Most of us come from a Photoshop/Bridge background and we are tough customers. But Lightroom is satisfying us nicely and I can see most if not all of the photographers realizing the potential of this ground breaking software.

Best of all is the speed we are learning to tag and edit and print our photos. None of us want to sit around all day in front of a computer, especially here in this scenic rich country. (If I sound full of hyperbole, it's because it's midnight and I'm surrounded by a lot of photographers satiated from a superb day of shooting. Their energy is infectious.)

Not only are we freed to shoot, but the application makes sharing images so easy we are actually spending a lot time discussing and appreciating the content itself. As you can see by the posted web galleries, we are shooting a huge variety of subjects and everyone's style is distinct.

Derrick and I are gathering tips and techniques from everyone and soon we'll compile them in a PDF titled, "Hot Tips From the Adobe Iceland Adventure", or something like that. After that I'll put together all the lessons we've learned along with the stunning images into a book.

If it rains tomorrow we'll have time to post more images. Don't change the channel!