Lightroom Adventure - Day 1

The adventure doesn't officially begin until Friday, but photographers are trickling into Hobart one by one. Yesterday there were only five of us, British Photographer of the Year, Jackie King, National Geographic wizard, Bruce Dale, Lightroom wiz and all around innovator, Peter Krogh, brilliant Japanese photographer and documentarian, Aihara Masaaki, and our host, Mikkel Aaland. You'll see images from all five in the video I whipped together from our first foray into Hobart last night. Peter did that amazing 135 image montage of our plane landing in Hobart. The infrared images are by Bruce Dale. Many of the rest of the stills are from Mikkel Aaland. I shot and edited the video using the new Canon HV30 and Apple's iMovie '08. Thanks to Inverted Silence/Jim Kang for the song Berimbau. We've been having so much fun, and the adventure has barely begun. If you're in Hobart, please join us for our closing reception Sunday evening, 13 April at the Henry Jones Art Hotel. We'll have prints on exhibition and for sale to benefit Save the Tasmanian Devil. I spent part of the day exploring the waterfront and just got back from the Female Factory and the Cascade brewery. We're going to do some Lightroom work tonight and I'll start posting images tomorrow.

Comments

[William]

Hey Leo,

Will there be any meetup in Hobart (other than the 13th)? I heard you went in to Next Byte (Apple Store) today, I work there but only on Saturday's.

William

[James]

Hey,

Any plans on coming up to Melbourne on your down under visit? i mean its blowing a gale here, but i'm sure you'd like it.

[Paris]

I am also curious of there's to be a planned Hobart meetup. I know of quite a few people who would be interested!

-Paris.

[Nathan]

Hi Leo,

I'm with william. Any chance of a twit meetup before the 13th??

[Jenna ‘Blueberry’ Fox]

Gosh this Viddler thing is laggy in Australia. I thought it was bad when I uploaded a video earlier because it needed to encode or something, but even your video here is spending more time buffering than it is playing! Maybe their server's are overloaded by a sudden increase in Rick Rolling?

[Tim]

Hello Leo.

Welcome to Australia!!

A quick restaurant tip for Hobart, Ball and Chain bar and grill on Salamanca Pl. Unbelievable steaks. I always go there at least once when I visit Hobart.

I hope you enjoy Tasmania, it is one of my favourite places to visit.

Cheers Tim.

[Nathan]

Don't think it's viddler. I'm in australia, and it's working fine for me!

[Nathan Davies]

Leo, I love your edit on this video. Short 2-3 second grabs to a great sound track. It was so interesting I had to watch it again. The video mixed in with photo stills with panning really worked. You're a natural.
Unfortunately you have now set yourself a high bar to maintain. No pressure!
What program did you use to edit it?
I loved your DV cam in Sydney with the wide lens. I was the one that borrow it to shot some of the crowd at the end. It was a solid feeling DV camera yet light weight too! Good wide screen view finder. Anyway enjoy your trip in Tassie.

[Stuie]

Your first day in action looks great, well put together video (keep it up).

I can fully understand how you can feel "humbled" by your companions. Really love the idea of selling prints to go towards saving the Tassie Devil.

Love your work Leo.

[Seb]

Hey Leo,
Yeah, it would be nice to have a meetup other than the 13th - I'd like to meet the guy who's been filling up my iPod for the last 3 years.

Hope you like it here in Hobart (of course you will).

Also, video was pretty laggy for me.

[Jon]

I'd love to be at a meetup! Anything planned?

[Peter]

I'd like to reiterate Paris' call to meet up if you're up for it.

Awesome to have you in the state Leo

Cheers
Peter

[Carl]

Hi Leo, great video of your 1st day here in Australia.

Saw your Twitter about bandwidth being expensive... welcome to Australia! We've been getting ripped for years down here!

[rose]

G'Day Leo
Re your bandwith troubles - my local pub has free internet access. Have dinner with me and I'll tell you where !

[Julian Russell]

Beautiful film and photographs - I'm a local and it's nice to see your home through other peoples eyes.

[Israel Hyman]

Wow, Leo. That looks like a lot of fun. What a great idea to attend an event like this!

I'm looking forward to see more here. Thanks for taking the time to assemble the video and post for our enjoyment.

[Phred]

Hi Leo,

Not sure what we can do to help with your data dilemma. I could surely upload for you, uploads aren't counted towards my quota and at any rate I can buy extra data blocks at $3/GB. Only 128Kbps upload speed tho.

Unfortunately that won't help you with your normal web access or your downloads.

Anyway, nice video Leo.

Cheers,
Phred

[Joel Vodell]

Some great shots in there guys! Very Nice.

Come to Melbourne Leo!

[Phred]

Leo,

I have a plan on how to solve your data problem. E-mail me and I'll reply with my phone number.

Cheers,
Phred

[sdf]

I just found out about Lab with Leo!

sorry to see you go, leo. you'll always be a distinguished visitor to canadian geeks.

[Justin Flood]

Wow, fantastic first video Leo.

Some of the shots you guys are doing are absolutely breathtaking! Am I right that some of you are experimenting with HDR imaging on some of those shots?

Can't wait for more! Keep up the great work.

--Justin
http://www.justinflood.com

[joe weld]

female factory?

[Robert L. Thornburgh]

Leo: Be careful in the bush. Tasmanian snakes are the most dangerous in the world. I remember reading an Australian article a few years back by a woman. Both of her sons were experienced bushmen and had been bitten in separate incidents by a Tasmanian snake and both of them died. I have fished often in New Zealand with Australians, and I always ask them why they come to NZ for fishing which is excellent in Australia and their answer is inevitably Snakes!! Take care and stay out of the high grass. Bob

[Andrew]

Inspiring. When time permits, love to see shooting tips shared during the trip.

thanks

[yam]

hope you guys are having a great time down under.

I use Mikkel's Lightroom Adventure book in the classes I teach, and sure hope you all will be using LR 2.0, (out in Beta: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom/ ) for the new edition of the book!

my first reaction to 2.0 is: what, still no book (aka Aperture/iPhoto) printing!?! second: localized corrections, yeaaa!!!

thanks again for all the great work by the TWIT army!

all my best,
yam
http://www.williamtolan.com/