G+ and Photography

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Many people jumped on G+ and lately - because they don't have all their friends over there, they think its dead. Which is so far from the truth. For now, certain sectors are absolutely booming and I think the largest one is Photography. Most professional Photogs hated Facebook for its interface and that it didn't protect your work (Google doesn't assume it as its own property - only that if its offensive/etc it may remove or edit it - and I doubt they'd edit a photo, they'd just remove it) So when G+ came out, this area EXPLODED because Photogs were both unsatisfied with Facebooks TERRIBLE image quality and also FB's privacy issues.

 

 

If you are into Photography you owe it to yourself to create a G+ account and start searching for Photo circles. If not, you can PM me and Ill circle you and share my photography circle which has like about 200 people in it. I am astounded daily by the content that is in that stream and more importantly, the conversations about photography and the knowledge that is shared there. I have learned more in the last few months with G+ than in years before. Its an ocean of information all right there in one place.

 

From within the Circle of Photogs I have there's always someone sharing their circle of photographers and its not uncommon for people to have 1,000s of people in multiple circles all for photography. (I think 500 per circle is the max). There's a few pro's who have circles dedicated to helping starving artists make it big. There's one pro - Trey Ratclif who is famous for his HDR work and he has a hangout every week it seems. Explaining how he works, his work and taking questions and answers. I've seen a few hangouts get to 200 people.

 

 

Simply put if you love photography you should be over there. If even just to browse the pictures that some of these people come up with (Some of the wedding stuff Ive seen is mind boggling good - some incredible work out there) or to gain knowledge and understanding of photography. Its pretty crazy how fast this part of G+ exploded.

 

You can find me at https://plus.google.com/u/0/107203122441051099654/posts//p/pub

 

 

Its as much a tool now to me as Google.com is and just searching.