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A few of us (at least three from the photo-groups) have been exploring
the potential of "Google Plus" or "G+" and it appears that it has an expanding community of pros, photoshop pros, & talented hobbyists. I am more impressed than I thought I would be, particularly with regard to privacy issues and restrictions and limiting sharing of images. It is simple to share an image, or an album with a limited select few in a "circle" of friends, family, or photogeeks, or have them exposed to the public. Downloading can be restricted to individual images in an album or not at all. It is also easy to exclude, or ignore the obvious pain in the ass. There is much here to be inspired by and to learn from. Given some of what I have seen so far has me truly humbled with regard to my ability as a photographer. I feel secure enough that I have come out from under the covers on G+ and I am not using my Usenet nom de Guerre, Savageduck there. So check it out. http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/learnmore/ http://www.colbybrownphotography.com...hers-paradise/ -- Regards, Savageduck |
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On 2011-09-30 15:05:35 -0700, Savageduck said:
A few of us (at least three from the photo-groups) have been exploring the potential of "Google Plus" or "G+" and it appears that it has an expanding community of pros, photoshop pros, & talented hobbyists. I am more impressed than I thought I would be, particularly with regard to privacy issues and restrictions and limiting sharing of images. It is simple to share an image, or an album with a limited select few in a "circle" of friends, family, or photogeeks, or have them exposed to the public. Downloading can be restricted to individual images in an album or not at all. It is also easy to exclude, or ignore the obvious pain in the ass. There is much here to be inspired by and to learn from. Given some of what I have seen so far has me truly humbled with regard to my ability as a photographer. I feel secure enough that I have come out from under the covers on G+ and I am not using my Usenet nom de Guerre, Savageduck there. So check it out. http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/learnmore/ http://www.colbybrownphotography.com...hers-paradise/ To add to my look at G+, take a look at some of what can be found there. http://www.photoextract.com/plus-extract/2011/9/28 -- Regards, Savageduck |
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On 9/30/2011 6:55 PM, Savageduck wrote:
On 2011-09-30 15:05:35 -0700, Savageduck said: A few of us (at least three from the photo-groups) have been exploring the potential of "Google Plus" or "G+" and it appears that it has an expanding community of pros, photoshop pros, & talented hobbyists. I am more impressed than I thought I would be, particularly with regard to privacy issues and restrictions and limiting sharing of images. It is simple to share an image, or an album with a limited select few in a "circle" of friends, family, or photogeeks, or have them exposed to the public. Downloading can be restricted to individual images in an album or not at all. It is also easy to exclude, or ignore the obvious pain in the ass. There is much here to be inspired by and to learn from. Given some of what I have seen so far has me truly humbled with regard to my ability as a photographer. I feel secure enough that I have come out from under the covers on G+ and I am not using my Usenet nom de Guerre, Savageduck there. So check it out. http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/learnmore/ http://www.colbybrownphotography.com...hers-paradise/ To add to my look at G+, take a look at some of what can be found there. http://www.photoextract.com/plus-extract/2011/9/28 It looks similar in concept to Facebook. But, some of those images were quite good. -- Peter |
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On 2011-09-30 19:03:31 -0700, tony cooper said:
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:55:32 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2011-09-30 15:05:35 -0700, Savageduck said: A few of us (at least three from the photo-groups) have been exploring the potential of "Google Plus" or "G+" and it appears that it has an expanding community of pros, photoshop pros, & talented hobbyists. I am more impressed than I thought I would be, particularly with regard to privacy issues and restrictions and limiting sharing of images. It is simple to share an image, or an album with a limited select few in a "circle" of friends, family, or photogeeks, or have them exposed to the public. Downloading can be restricted to individual images in an album or not at all. It is also easy to exclude, or ignore the obvious pain in the ass. There is much here to be inspired by and to learn from. Given some of what I have seen so far has me truly humbled with regard to my ability as a photographer. I feel secure enough that I have come out from under the covers on G+ and I am not using my Usenet nom de Guerre, Savageduck there. So check it out. http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/learnmore/ http://www.colbybrownphotography.com...hers-paradise/ To add to my look at G+, take a look at some of what can be found there. http://www.photoextract.com/plus-extract/2011/9/28 I'm not sure what the advantage is to the average amateur photograph. I don't see any samples by real people. In that batch there just what that individual considered his choice for the top 38 images of Sept. 28. There are many photo circles, some with shared images and some limited to that circle. and at all levels, some even posted by "real people". I do note that the uploaded images are resized at a maximum size of 2048 pixels on the longest side. I upload images at half that dimension to avoid causing the viewer to scroll. I hope all images aren't uploaded at that size. Images uploaded which are larger than that are downsized and they are displayed at a uniform size in a viewer which works very well, and permits the addition of comments. You also have the ability to restrict the sharing or not. I also note that joining Google+ automatically enrolls you in Picasa Web Albums and I don't do Picasa. With Lightroom and Bridge, I don't want anything else trying to control my images. Well you are more than halfway there with your new gmail address. Like you I am using LR and Bridge. Picasa was never on my radar. However I was prepared to explore the possibilities and it seems quite workable. I would never think of using Picasa for primary storage or back up, only as a tool for sharing since unless there are some changes Apple is remove my current method of web distribution with iDisc + Filechute. I am also looking at Dropbox which gives me the closest to what I have now, or Pogoplug where I would have my own "cloud" under my control. My usual IDisc+FileChute: http://homepage.mac.com/lco/filechut...ti-3977A2a.jpg Dropbox shared image: http://db.tt/f1b4zzu0 PogoPlug Information: http://www.pogoplug.com/products-pogoplug.html I will email a Picasa URL to you as I exist there in all my mundane self. I don't care for albums or photostreams or whatever you call them. I prefer linking to one image without taking extra steps. But, that's me. What extra steps? Your primary catalog is maintained on your hard drive. You are not sharing directly from your hard drive, neither am I. To share on line there will always be some sort of "extra step". I do link to a SmugMug gallery when I send family photos to relatives. They can view it like a slideshow or one at a time. I do not use any of the image sharing services. When sending images to friends or family I will either send links to those I care to share which are stored in the 20GB I have on iDisc , either as individual images, or web galleries I have produced with LR, or Bridge. I see I have that same ability with G+ &/or Picasa. All I am doing is exploring the possibilities with an open mind, and I recognize the potential. It is certainly no worse than some of the discussion found here, in some instances far superior, and educational. So if there are any other than you who would care to explore they should feel free to do so. There is no more I can do than put this out there. Of the three photo-groups alumni who have engaged in this test of G+, two of us are a little more active than the third. If they care to reveal themselves her they can, I am not going to do that. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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On 2011-09-30 19:09:58 -0700, PeterN said:
On 9/30/2011 6:55 PM, Savageduck wrote: On 2011-09-30 15:05:35 -0700, Savageduck said: A few of us (at least three from the photo-groups) have been exploring the potential of "Google Plus" or "G+" and it appears that it has an expanding community of pros, photoshop pros, & talented hobbyists. I am more impressed than I thought I would be, particularly with regard to privacy issues and restrictions and limiting sharing of images. It is simple to share an image, or an album with a limited select few in a "circle" of friends, family, or photogeeks, or have them exposed to the public. Downloading can be restricted to individual images in an album or not at all. It is also easy to exclude, or ignore the obvious pain in the ass. There is much here to be inspired by and to learn from. Given some of what I have seen so far has me truly humbled with regard to my ability as a photographer. I feel secure enough that I have come out from under the covers on G+ and I am not using my Usenet nom de Guerre, Savageduck there. So check it out. http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/learnmore/ http://www.colbybrownphotography.com...hers-paradise/ To add to my look at G+, take a look at some of what can be found there. http://www.photoextract.com/plus-extract/2011/9/28 It looks similar in concept to Facebook. But, some of those images were quite good. From what I have seen G+ is much less controlling than FB, and lets you secure your participation better than I have heard FB does. I have never used FB so I have to rely on the hearsay. That said, I am quite comfortable with my G+ experience so far, and it adds more to the dialog for photographers of all levels of competence and expertise than I have seen in the photo-groups lately. It is worth exploring if only for want of the novelty of a new experience. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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On 2011-09-30 19:59:46 -0700, Savageduck said:
On 2011-09-30 19:03:31 -0700, tony cooper said: On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:55:32 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2011-09-30 15:05:35 -0700, Savageduck said: A few of us (at least three from the photo-groups) have been exploring the potential of "Google Plus" or "G+" and it appears that it has an expanding community of pros, photoshop pros, & talented hobbyists. I am more impressed than I thought I would be, particularly with regard to privacy issues and restrictions and limiting sharing of images. It is simple to share an image, or an album with a limited select few in a "circle" of friends, family, or photogeeks, or have them exposed to the public. Downloading can be restricted to individual images in an album or not at all. It is also easy to exclude, or ignore the obvious pain in the ass. There is much here to be inspired by and to learn from. Given some of what I have seen so far has me truly humbled with regard to my ability as a photographer. I feel secure enough that I have come out from under the covers on G+ and I am not using my Usenet nom de Guerre, Savageduck there. So check it out. http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/learnmore/ http://www.colbybrownphotography.com...hers-paradise/ To add to my look at G+, take a look at some of what can be found there. http://www.photoextract.com/plus-extract/2011/9/28 I'm not sure what the advantage is to the average amateur photograph. I don't see any samples by real people. In that batch there just what that individual considered his choice for the top 38 images of Sept. 28. There are many photo circles, some with shared images and some limited to that circle. and at all levels, some even posted by "real people". I do note that the uploaded images are resized at a maximum size of 2048 pixels on the longest side. I upload images at half that dimension to avoid causing the viewer to scroll. I hope all images aren't uploaded at that size. Images uploaded which are larger than that are downsized and they are displayed at a uniform size in a viewer which works very well, and permits the addition of comments. You also have the ability to restrict the sharing or not. I also note that joining Google+ automatically enrolls you in Picasa Web Albums and I don't do Picasa. With Lightroom and Bridge, I don't want anything else trying to control my images. Well you are more than halfway there with your new gmail address. Like you I am using LR and Bridge. Picasa was never on my radar. However I was prepared to explore the possibilities and it seems quite workable. I would never think of using Picasa for primary storage or back up, only as a tool for sharing since unless there are some changes Apple is remove my current method of web distribution with iDisc + Filechute. I am also looking at Dropbox which gives me the closest to what I have now, or Pogoplug where I would have my own "cloud" under my control. My usual IDisc+FileChute: http://homepage.mac.com/lco/filechut...ti-3977A2a.jpg Dropbox shared image: http://db.tt/f1b4zzu0 PogoPlug Information: http://www.pogoplug.com/products-pogoplug.html I will email a Picasa URL to you as I exist there in all my mundane self. I don't care for albums or photostreams or whatever you call them. I prefer linking to one image without taking extra steps. But, that's me. What extra steps? Your primary catalog is maintained on your hard drive. You are not sharing directly from your hard drive, neither am I. To share on line there will always be some sort of "extra step". I do link to a SmugMug gallery when I send family photos to relatives. They can view it like a slideshow or one at a time. I do not use any of the image sharing services. When sending images to friends or family I will either send links to those I care to share which are stored in the 20GB I have on iDisc , either as individual images, or web galleries I have produced with LR, or Bridge. I see I have that same ability with G+ &/or Picasa. All I am doing is exploring the possibilities with an open mind, and I recognize the potential. It is certainly no worse than some of the discussion found here, in some instances far superior, and educational. So if there are any other than you who would care to explore they should feel free to do so. There is no more I can do than put this out there. Of the three photo-groups alumni who have engaged in this test of G+, two of us are a little more active than the third. If they care to reveal themselves her they can, I am not going to do that. BTW; noodling around it seems I can also copy an image URL from G+ with a right click menu, which will give me something such as this: DNC4396A.jpg -- Regards, Savageduck |
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On 2011-09-30 21:21:07 -0700, Savageduck said:
On 2011-09-30 19:59:46 -0700, Savageduck said: On 2011-09-30 19:03:31 -0700, tony cooper said: On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:55:32 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2011-09-30 15:05:35 -0700, Savageduck said: A few of us (at least three from the photo-groups) have been exploring the potential of "Google Plus" or "G+" and it appears that it has an expanding community of pros, photoshop pros, & talented hobbyists. I am more impressed than I thought I would be, particularly with regard to privacy issues and restrictions and limiting sharing of images. It is simple to share an image, or an album with a limited select few in a "circle" of friends, family, or photogeeks, or have them exposed to the public. Downloading can be restricted to individual images in an album or not at all. It is also easy to exclude, or ignore the obvious pain in the ass. There is much here to be inspired by and to learn from. Given some of what I have seen so far has me truly humbled with regard to my ability as a photographer. I feel secure enough that I have come out from under the covers on G+ and I am not using my Usenet nom de Guerre, Savageduck there. So check it out. http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/learnmore/ http://www.colbybrownphotography.com...hers-paradise/ To add to my look at G+, take a look at some of what can be found there. http://www.photoextract.com/plus-extract/2011/9/28 I'm not sure what the advantage is to the average amateur photograph. I don't see any samples by real people. In that batch there just what that individual considered his choice for the top 38 images of Sept. 28. There are many photo circles, some with shared images and some limited to that circle. and at all levels, some even posted by "real people". I do note that the uploaded images are resized at a maximum size of 2048 pixels on the longest side. I upload images at half that dimension to avoid causing the viewer to scroll. I hope all images aren't uploaded at that size. Images uploaded which are larger than that are downsized and they are displayed at a uniform size in a viewer which works very well, and permits the addition of comments. You also have the ability to restrict the sharing or not. I also note that joining Google+ automatically enrolls you in Picasa Web Albums and I don't do Picasa. With Lightroom and Bridge, I don't want anything else trying to control my images. Well you are more than halfway there with your new gmail address. Like you I am using LR and Bridge. Picasa was never on my radar. However I was prepared to explore the possibilities and it seems quite workable. I would never think of using Picasa for primary storage or back up, only as a tool for sharing since unless there are some changes Apple is remove my current method of web distribution with iDisc + Filechute. I am also looking at Dropbox which gives me the closest to what I have now, or Pogoplug where I would have my own "cloud" under my control. My usual IDisc+FileChute: http://homepage.mac.com/lco/filechut...ti-3977A2a.jpg Dropbox shared image: http://db.tt/f1b4zzu0 PogoPlug Information: http://www.pogoplug.com/products-pogoplug.html I will email a Picasa URL to you as I exist there in all my mundane self. I don't care for albums or photostreams or whatever you call them. I prefer linking to one image without taking extra steps. But, that's me. What extra steps? Your primary catalog is maintained on your hard drive. You are not sharing directly from your hard drive, neither am I. To share on line there will always be some sort of "extra step". I do link to a SmugMug gallery when I send family photos to relatives. They can view it like a slideshow or one at a time. I do not use any of the image sharing services. When sending images to friends or family I will either send links to those I care to share which are stored in the 20GB I have on iDisc , either as individual images, or web galleries I have produced with LR, or Bridge. I see I have that same ability with G+ &/or Picasa. All I am doing is exploring the possibilities with an open mind, and I recognize the potential. It is certainly no worse than some of the discussion found here, in some instances far superior, and educational. So if there are any other than you who would care to explore they should feel free to do so. There is no more I can do than put this out there. Of the three photo-groups alumni who have engaged in this test of G+, two of us are a little more active than the third. If they care to reveal themselves her they can, I am not going to do that. BTW; noodling around it seems I can also copy an image URL from G+ with a right click menu, which will give me something such as this: DNC4396A.jpg Aah! That doesn't work in UseNet as it does in email. I will have to experiment further. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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On 2011-09-30 21:26:40 -0700, Savageduck said:
On 2011-09-30 21:21:07 -0700, Savageduck said: On 2011-09-30 19:59:46 -0700, Savageduck said: On 2011-09-30 19:03:31 -0700, tony cooper said: On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:55:32 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2011-09-30 15:05:35 -0700, Savageduck said: A few of us (at least three from the photo-groups) have been exploring the potential of "Google Plus" or "G+" and it appears that it has an expanding community of pros, photoshop pros, & talented hobbyists. I am more impressed than I thought I would be, particularly with regard to privacy issues and restrictions and limiting sharing of images. It is simple to share an image, or an album with a limited select few in a "circle" of friends, family, or photogeeks, or have them exposed to the public. Downloading can be restricted to individual images in an album or not at all. It is also easy to exclude, or ignore the obvious pain in the ass. There is much here to be inspired by and to learn from. Given some of what I have seen so far has me truly humbled with regard to my ability as a photographer. I feel secure enough that I have come out from under the covers on G+ and I am not using my Usenet nom de Guerre, Savageduck there. So check it out. http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/learnmore/ http://www.colbybrownphotography.com...hers-paradise/ To add to my look at G+, take a look at some of what can be found there. http://www.photoextract.com/plus-extract/2011/9/28 I'm not sure what the advantage is to the average amateur photograph. I don't see any samples by real people. In that batch there just what that individual considered his choice for the top 38 images of Sept. 28. There are many photo circles, some with shared images and some limited to that circle. and at all levels, some even posted by "real people". I do note that the uploaded images are resized at a maximum size of 2048 pixels on the longest side. I upload images at half that dimension to avoid causing the viewer to scroll. I hope all images aren't uploaded at that size. Images uploaded which are larger than that are downsized and they are displayed at a uniform size in a viewer which works very well, and permits the addition of comments. You also have the ability to restrict the sharing or not. I also note that joining Google+ automatically enrolls you in Picasa Web Albums and I don't do Picasa. With Lightroom and Bridge, I don't want anything else trying to control my images. Well you are more than halfway there with your new gmail address. Like you I am using LR and Bridge. Picasa was never on my radar. However I was prepared to explore the possibilities and it seems quite workable. I would never think of using Picasa for primary storage or back up, only as a tool for sharing since unless there are some changes Apple is remove my current method of web distribution with iDisc + Filechute. I am also looking at Dropbox which gives me the closest to what I have now, or Pogoplug where I would have my own "cloud" under my control. My usual IDisc+FileChute: http://homepage.mac.com/lco/filechut...ti-3977A2a.jpg Dropbox shared image: http://db.tt/f1b4zzu0 PogoPlug Information: http://www.pogoplug.com/products-pogoplug.html I will email a Picasa URL to you as I exist there in all my mundane self. I don't care for albums or photostreams or whatever you call them. I prefer linking to one image without taking extra steps. But, that's me. What extra steps? Your primary catalog is maintained on your hard drive. You are not sharing directly from your hard drive, neither am I. To share on line there will always be some sort of "extra step". I do link to a SmugMug gallery when I send family photos to relatives. They can view it like a slideshow or one at a time. I do not use any of the image sharing services. When sending images to friends or family I will either send links to those I care to share which are stored in the 20GB I have on iDisc , either as individual images, or web galleries I have produced with LR, or Bridge. I see I have that same ability with G+ &/or Picasa. All I am doing is exploring the possibilities with an open mind, and I recognize the potential. It is certainly no worse than some of the discussion found here, in some instances far superior, and educational. So if there are any other than you who would care to explore they should feel free to do so. There is no more I can do than put this out there. Of the three photo-groups alumni who have engaged in this test of G+, two of us are a little more active than the third. If they care to reveal themselves her they can, I am not going to do that. BTW; noodling around it seems I can also copy an image URL from G+ with a right click menu, which will give me something such as this: DNC4396A.jpg Aah! That doesn't work in UseNet as it does in email. I will have to experiment further. Let's try this. DNC4396A.jpg -- Regards, Savageduck |
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On 2011-09-30 21:28:56 -0700, Savageduck said:
On 2011-09-30 21:26:40 -0700, Savageduck said: LE SNIP BTW; noodling around it seems I can also copy an image URL from G+ with a right click menu, which will give me something such as this: DNC4396A.jpg Aah! That doesn't work in UseNet as it does in email. I will have to experiment further. Let's try this. DNC4396A.jpg Nope! Next attempt; https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-V...2/DNC4396A.jpg or http://tinyurl.com/42to5u9 -- Regards, Savageduck |
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"tony cooper" wrote in message
... I'm not sure what the advantage is to the average amateur photograph. I don't see any samples by real people. Brand name, number of subscribers, and access control. Beyond that the rest is just bull****. Personally, I'd rather these protocols were handled at a low level instead of just handing your assets over to yet another monopoly to monetize. -- Charles E. Hardwidge |
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