I wanted to give an update an update on my seminar yesterday. But first, a few news updates. The big one? My taking Strobist’s April Fool’s joke hook, line and sinker. Overclocking your strobe isn’t as possible as his post made it sound (at least without some serious electrical knowledge and the courage to crack open the case of your light)- very nice . Check out his update – the fact that he put effort into it makes me feel a little better for falling for it (I blame it all on the humidity in Orlando – it fogs the brain).

Secondly, and much more importantly, at least 3 different folks are reporting that Lightroom 2 Beta will be formally announced at the Photoshop Keynote this morning. This is GREAT news! I’m very excited to see what will happen. In the meantime, check out some of the new features over at the Lightroom Journal.

In short, the seminar was great and just what I expected. It was Joe McNally (author of the Moment it Clicks) and Moose Peterson providing brain dumps to the 50-person class. We started in the classroom for a few hours with Moose talking lenses and wildlife/landscape and Joe talking flash. After some trouble with the buses and weather, we were able to get out on location and do some shooting in a beautfil garden behind a local art museum (we had full access to the garden and 4 models that came along for the ride). The location was plenty large (several acres) and gorgeous.

I won’t go into all the details now, but it was amazing to shoot the grounds and the models with two of the greatest photographers around. It felt like we were on assignment with them.

We spent nearly 4 hours following them around/self guiding ourselves around the garden. When they were instructing, they would wait for some light (good or bad), adjust for it, shoot it, all the while explaining what they were doing and why. Then, they’d change the scene, the light would change and it would all start again.

I’ll provide a more detailed post about what I learned in the next day or two. I planned on doing it now, but I want to go play around with Lightroom 2 Beta before this morning’s Keynote starts!