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Offline ND

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Calling all the Google+ users!
« on: February 19, 2012, 03:26:16 PM »
Hello to my fellow G+ users! I found BBalzCO and Bgray through the forum, but are there any more of us Plus-devotees here? My own profile is https://plus.google.com/u/0/?tab=XX#117292685193496707604/posts . It's an amazing site for us lovers of photography.

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Re: Calling all the Google+ users!
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2012, 09:41:27 PM »
Thank you for that link, 1074!
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Re: Calling all the Google+ users!
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2012, 09:48:13 PM »
Thank you for that link, 1074!

Absolutely!

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Re: Calling all the Google+ users!
« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2012, 01:05:37 PM »
Well it works just fine for me, but i do understand some peoples concerns with sharing images.  I don't have the frame of mind to sit contently in my little town and just share amongst some tired old photography club. The photographers I respect all use G+ and do just fine. To each their own....
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Re: Calling all the Google+ users!
« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2012, 01:53:58 PM »
To be fair to Google, they really need "a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit" otherwise, they can't show your photos to other people. However, that doesn't mean I trust Google not to be evil.

In reality, if you post your pictures, people can keep them. The best you can do is to post reduced-size 'teasers' or spoil them with watermarking, logos or signatures. My own opinion is dramatic, and anathema to speculative commercial photographers: either share it, or don't. If your work is so good that people will pay for it, then put it in a commercial catalogue; don't put it out on a photo sharing site, and then whine if you think that someone printed it out to stick on their wall.

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Re: Calling all the Google+ users!
« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2012, 04:07:38 PM »
The article says "read before you sign up" not "don't sign up."

Just making sure we all have as much info as possible to make informed decisions by, that's all.

And to the guy who took it personally... Sheesh. Settle down, man! Nobody said anything about you, unless you own google. Do you own google? If not, and mostly likely not, take a deep breath and try to understand I wasn't insulting you or the photographers you respect... mmmmkay?  ;D
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Re: Calling all the Google+ users!
« Reply #7 on: February 20, 2012, 04:57:29 PM »
We should do a T2i forum hangout!  Hangouts are a blast on Google+.

And here's my profile...

https://plus.google.com/u/0/114974993988509334124/posts
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Re: Calling all the Google+ users!
« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2012, 03:12:38 AM »
I'm still a FB fogie.

I tried G+ and it didn't float my boat....sorry.  :o

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Re: Calling all the Google+ users!
« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2012, 03:29:52 PM »
I do the FB thing too- I just prefer the community on G+, as well as the advertisement-light atmosphere.

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Re: Calling all the Google+ users!
« Reply #10 on: February 21, 2012, 03:59:16 PM »
The best thing about Google+ is circles.

I have a circle of about 60-70 AWESOME photographers who's work I admire and look up to.

I can simply filter all my results to see just these talented ladies and gentlemen.  These people also host Google+ hangouts, which are wonderful.  Literally, you can hangout with these people and pick their brains live via your webcam....very cool.

AND - I can share this circle with others.

I promise you - if you start Google+ and adopt my Photographers circle, you'll love Google+, and you'll become a better photographer.
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Re: Calling all the Google+ users!
« Reply #11 on: February 22, 2012, 01:44:56 PM »
I HAD an account, but after several months of no activity or anyone I knew being on it, I closed the account.

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Re: Calling all the Google+ users!
« Reply #12 on: February 22, 2012, 04:50:41 PM »
I am on google+... found you guys and added you to one of my circles.  Although I started using G+ awhile ago, I haven;t been very active.  Maybe now I will be and actually straighten out my profile and complete it.

here is my profile https://plus.google.com/u/0/107264364450918186413/posts
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Re: Calling all the Google+ users!
« Reply #13 on: February 22, 2012, 04:57:47 PM »
The best thing about Google+ is circles.

I have a circle of about 60-70 AWESOME photographers who's work I admire and look up to.

I can simply filter all my results to see just these talented ladies and gentlemen.  These people also host Google+ hangouts, which are wonderful.  Literally, you can hangout with these people and pick their brains live via your webcam....very cool.

AND - I can share this circle with others.

I promise you - if you start Google+ and adopt my Photographers circle, you'll love Google+, and you'll become a better photographer.

How does someone adopt another's circle?
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Re: Calling all the Google+ users!
« Reply #14 on: February 22, 2012, 05:22:54 PM »
No one I know is on it and until they are, it simply is a waste of time for me to check in on for the most part. I am on there, but I check it once a month.