I'm still trying to figure my way around, like John. Dave
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Doug Brewer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/14/11 5:01 PM, Tim Bray wrote: >> >> I work for Google, so feel free to discount this as highly-biased raving. >> >> Having said that, Google+ is really pretty nice for a photographer: > > I've been pleasantly surprised. I don't get along well with Facebook, > especially since they cluttered it up (more), and Twitter still gives me a > headache, but G+, I dunno, seems a little more to my liking. > >> >> 1. The presentation of the photos is pretty good compared to anything >> else with "social" in the name > > yep. > >> 2. There are a lot of really good photographers already there > > and me > > , so you >> >> can arrange to have your stream filled with great shots every time you >> check in. > > true > > >> 3. There's this "hangout" thing, essentially a glorified >> videoconference, up to 10 ways, and you can screen-share. Got into >> one of those led by Mike Spinak (author of the amusing 10,775-word >> rant against the "Golden ratio" at >> http://naturography.com/the-golden-section-hypothesis-a-critical-look/) >> and in that hangout, people were screen-sharing so we could all look >> at pix together and argue about composition and lighting and so on > > I'm still a hangout virgin, and will probably remain one for the near > future. Gotta think of the children. > >> 4. The interface for uploading your pictures seems to pretty well just >> work > > Yeah, especially compared to the root canal that is FB photo uploading. > >> >> Check some of the links here out: http://goo.gl/7mSu5 >> >> Here are my albums: >> https://plus.google.com/photos/107606703558161507946/albums >> >> People here might be amused by the ones prefixed by "Backgrounds:" >> This is a total of a couple hundred pix designed for use as wallpapers >> on your mobile device. >> >> For pix I care about seriously, I still use my own blog space. But G+ >> sure makes it awfully easy. > > I'm moving toward a G+/500px combo. > >> >> Biased raving over. Return to your regularly-scheduled cormorants. >> >> -T >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
