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As some of you know I received an early invite to test out and participate in Google's latest entry into the social networking world Google+. I did an early comparison piece between Google+, Facebook, Flickr, 500px and Twitter the week before last. I wanted to write and update my thoughts on Google+ for photo sharing now that I've gotten a few weeks under my belt, as well as share with you all my own strategy for sharing photographs going forward.
Google+ completely changes the photo sharing game. Not just a little bit -- alot. This may be the most significant shift in photo sharing that we've seen since the introduction of Flickr. There is more engagement going on with photographs on G+, more ways to share photographs on G+, and it is growing at a rate that blows my mind away. Photos are elegantly presented as large oversized thumbnails in stream views (in contrast to Facebook's stingy microscopic photo thumbnails that I've never quite understood). When you click through the photo you get the most elegant lightbox view (on black) of any photo sharing site out there today.
Here are some tips for those of you who would like to maximize your photo sharing potential on Google+
1. Post your photos directly to Google+. This is probably the number one most important thing to do to promote your work there. If you post a link to Flickr, a link to your blog, a link to some other site, you get a small little thumbnail at best. If you upload your photo *directly* to Google+ you get a massive oversized thumbnail (is that like saying jumbo shrimp?). The larger your work is presented, the more likely it is to be engaged with. Even better, photos posted to G+ don't count towards your Picasa storage limits so Google is effectively giving you unlimited photo sharing on G+ for free. What a deal.
2. Get the balance right. You don't want to post too little or too much to G+. Your photos posted to G+ have a limited life. In the first hour that you post your photo it will receive 50% of the attention. In the next 3 hours 25% more, in the next 6 hours 10% more. In the next 24 hours 12% more. After a day and a half your photo will likely be buried. So it's important to regularly be adding photos to your stream. On the other hand, if you inundate people with too many photos (like 10 in a row within 10 minutes) people will drop you faster than a hot potato and you will lose visibility -- there's a fine line between sharing photos and whoring photos. Find a rate for uploads that feels right. At present I'm uploading about 5 photos a day to G+ spread out throughout the day and night. This feels about right to me.
3. Share your best work. Don't upload *everything* you take to G+. If you want to archive all your work use Flickr or Picasa. Save G+ to showcase some of what you feel is your strongest work. This will encourage other people to share your work and promote it more.
4. Don't use watermarks and signatures on your work. Don't hate me for this one. I'm so tired of haters. If you want to watermark the crap out of your work, go for it. It's your work, do WHATEVER you want with it. YOU own it. It's YOURS. Don't shoot the messenger. I'm just saying that watermarks, sigs, logos, etc. look *especially* bad when people pull up your photos in the large lightbox view. I've noticed that photos that are mared up by watermarks tend to not do as well on G+.
5. Make sure you understand sharing and make your posts *public*. Alot of people make the mistake early on of only sharing their photos with their circles without even realizing that they are limiting themselves. This means that your photo goes out to *alot* less people. This would be the same as marking a photo as private on flickr so that only your friends and family could see it. These photos will get alot less attention because most people *can't* see it due to Google's privacy settings. When people first start using G+ if they are browsing in a circle of their contacts and they share a photo from that screen, it limits the photo to only that circle. If you want your photo to be seen, make sure when you post it that it says "public" when you are sharing it.
6. Invite people from your other social networks. Post on your Facebook Wall about your Google+ stream. Offer to send invitations to your contacts there. Tweet links out to your G+ stream. Post it on your blog or tumblr account. Most importantly, post to FLICKR your Google+ stream so that your photo sharing contacts on Flickr can add you on G+. There is no easy way to transfer flickr contacts to G+ other than by word of mouth. It's up to you to get the word out to your other photo sharing channels and get them to follow you on your new G+ account.
7. Engage with people who engage with you. Pay attention to the +1's (fave/like) your photos receive. Pay attention to the comments. Go check out the people that are faving and commenting on your stuff. Social networks are largely about reciprocation. If they are a talented photographer consider adding them to a circle. If you like some of their work fave and comment on it too. Don't just post your own stuff. Engage with the community there.
8. Try some hangouts with other photographers. I've hosted a few hangouts so far. It was great hanging out with Scott Jarvie who is one of the top wedding photographers out there. Trey Ratcliff seems to always be hosting them. Popular ones will fill up quickly (hangouts are video chats limited to 10 people) -- but keep trying to get in those or maybe even set up one of your own. Don't be shy on a hangout. Talk about photography. This is a great opportunity for you to virtually network with some other great photographers. It's easy. Drop in, drop out. Make sure you've got your clothes on though, this is not Chatroulette.
9. Write good titles and descriptions for your photos. If you enter a description in for a photo in Lightroom or whatever other photo processing tool you use and write it as the photo's caption, it will automatically populate into Google+ when you upload it. You'll still need to manually add a title or headline. Make your titles interesting and engaging. Don't upload something as DSC10989. Give it a good strong title. Don't overkill on the caption, but a nice one or two sentence caption can be nice.
10. Be early. Don't wait to get involved with G+. Get yourself an invite and signup NOW. Photo Sharing on G+ feels alot like the earliest days of Flickr. It's the early frontier. Many of Flickr's most popular users are popular because they got on the site EARLY and built a following before there was as much competition. Right now there is a huge brand new audience, HUNGRY for great photography on G+. It is early still and people are figuring out who to follow. Get involved and super active early to help build your own audience there. If you wait six months, or six weeks, or heck, six days as fast as Google+ is growing, you'll miss out on some of the strongest, fastest early growth.
Bonus Tip: check out who your other photographer friends have added to *their* circles. You will likely find alot of people you know to add by doing this.
One final note. I've been asked by TONS of people about what the Google TOS means for photographers. There is a lot of FUD flying around out there about that now. As a policy I no longer comment about anything copyright related, so please don't ask about that here or on G+. I won't answer any questions about it. I will point you to an insightful post on the topic though written last night by Vincent Mo (who works for Google) on the matter.
If you don't have an invite to Google+ yet and want one, either email me tom(at)thomashawk.com or flickrmail me your email address and I will try and invite you. I'm doing the best I can to keep up with the invite requests, so bear with me if it takes some time to get it out to you.
Also if you are already on Google+ and want to follow my work there you can do that here.
Место отправки - Ковров - maps.google.com/?q=56.36031691,41.327176346&z=16 от marina_antre оригинал - www.instagram.com/p/-4XR4wluBw/
Notice the check marks noting accomplishments on the path to global domination.
By the way, this is board is a joke created by Google employees but, as you can see, some things come true. Anyone can pick up a dry erase marker and make changes.
Bahia Honda State Park, Florida Keys, Florida.
Sunrise through a Mangrove tree. You can also see a portion of the old Seven Mile Bridge in the frame.
You can also follow my work on My Website | Google+ | tumblr |
2015 april fool's day maybe only today lool
www.google.co.jp/maps/@35.7818482,139.6722061,18z/data=!1e3
2014
考えたら引越した直後でNET つながってなかったんだなぁ
2013
www.flickr.com/photos/momomuller/8609161394/
2012
when i flap my wings i make a loud buzzing noise.
Thanks to Epitree for reminding of the name. I looked it up on google ...over 2500 different types and of interest to me was this u tube clip
m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=tjLiWy2nT7U&desktop_uri=%2Fwa...
From David Attenborough
Exact name ......nothern cherrynose (Macrotristria sylvara) ..thz ozzicada :)
Dr Vinton Cerf, Vice President & Chief Internet Evangelist, Google, speaks during World Congresson Information Technology WCIT at Kuala Lumpur May 21 2008.
When he talk, everybody listen, the plenary hall was pack with people, I really enjoy listen to him as much as photographing him, talking about the future of the internet. I was so lucky to watch him in person, not to mention photographing him..
More about him, just Google it... :-)
I don't use flash for this shot, available light only...
2010.3.23
Today is the day of Google without China, in the face of shameless BaiDu, I can only smilence( smile+silence)...
Good luck,Google.
1900x1200:
club.tgfc.com/attachments/forumid_41/20100324_91e298d3f94...
New one for Google's 'Think Quarterly' publication - the 'Rebrief Project' sees classic ad campaigns re-imagined for the digital world
I met this guy on my train ride home on Friday.
"6 ft. 7 inch Jew will freestyle rap 4 U."
"Google: Slacker Prophet"
Have you checked out Google Analytics? I have been using it for about two months on my blog, and it is very interesting to track...
Sure, it's not about quantity, but I do like the graphs :)
Google showed this in honor of soccer. Many games are played by teams from around the world and lots are being played in the stadium one town over from us
These are from a while ago, but I was scanning film and thought I'd share.
One of the Google bus protest in San Francisco where they were protesting the buses because of gentrification.
Google AI Overview
The image shows a banana plant (genus Musa), which is actually a large perennial herb, not a tree.
The plant has a false "trunk" or pseudostem, formed by the overlapping leaf sheaths.
The large, paddle-shaped leaves can grow up to 8 feet long.
The plant produces a hanging stalk with flowers (the purple bud at the bottom) that develop into a bunch of fruit.
The fruits shown are green, indicating they are not yet ripe for typical consumption as a sweet banana, but might be plantains, which are starchy and used as a vegetable.
After flowering and producing fruit, the main stem dies, but new shoots (suckers) grow from the underground rhizome to form new plants.
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit—botanically a berry[1]—produced by several kinds of large treelike herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, cooking bananas are called plantains, distinguishing them from dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a peel, which may have a variety of colors when ripe. It grows upward in clusters near the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible seedless (parthenocarp) cultivated bananas come from two wild species – Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana, or their hybrids.
www.promusa.org/Morphology+of+banana+plant
We took an all-day photography tour with Oahu Photography Tour. It was a lot of fun. I recommend it highly.
Our second stop was at Waimea Valley Botanical Garden.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waimea_Valley
Waimea Valley is an area of historic cultural significance on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii. The valley, being an important place in Hawaiian religion, includes several historical structures including stone terraces and walls constructed during the time of the Hawaiian monarchy. The nutrient-rich volcanic soil combined with a rainy environment provided the resourceful Hawaiians of the area the opportunity to create one of the most prosperous farming communities in all of Polynesia. The area had complex fish ponds, domesticated animal pens, various large farming beds, and was famous for the cultivation of pink taro root stock, a coveted item to the Ali`i (the Hawaiian elite).[1][2] Much of the garden floor was once cultivated for taro, sweet potato, and bananas, with new crops and orchards introduced by Europeans after their arrival.
Formerly known as the Waimea Valley Audubon Center and the Waimea Arboretum and Botanical Garden, the Waimea Valley is a historical nature park including botanical gardens. It is located at 59-864 Kamehameha Highway, Haleiwa, Oahu, Hawaii and is open daily except for Christmas and New Year's Day; an admission fee is charged.
www.waimeavalley.net/admission
Hawaii 2025
Oahu 2025
Over the last three days I've posted three circles of 500 each of all of the photographers that I'm currently following on Google+. For the most part these are active, engaged photographes on Google+ and represent some of the people that you may want to get to know if you want to participate more in the Photo Community that has emerged on Google+.
The Google+ Photography Community is the most active, engaged, positive group of photographers I've ever seen anywhere on the web. I'm constantly blown away and humbled by the quality of the work that people post there day in and day out. More than just the work, the photographers that I've met on there, that I've hung out with on there, that I've hung out in real life with on there (HIRL), are such amazing people that I've been so fortunate to have gotten to know.
Alot of people ask me how they might get more involved with Google+. I'd say that you can start with checking out these folks and I think you'll find most of them are pretty easy to get along with and interact with. You can check out these circles here:
1,500 Kick Ass Photographers on Google+ (A-G, Part 1 of 3)
1,500 Kick Ass Photographers on Google+ (G-O, Part 2 of 3)
1,500 Kick Ass Photographers on Google+ (P-Z, Part 3 of 3)
Thanks to each and every photographer that I've gotten to know at Google+!
I love google hybrid maps. I have a new area from which to shoot the gwb, albeit from dawn 'til dusk. I'll eventually post another shot from directly under the bridge. On the way out of henry hudson drive, I wanted to take a long exposure from directly under the bridge with the hudson flowing. Unfortunately, I had forgotten I had taken the nd400 filter off, so I have a really nice, totally white image right now. As I was screwing on the filter, on the camera, on the tripod I heard the harsh sound of a park police cruiser horn blare...he was young and nice about it, but he said the port authority police would basically be *pissed* if they caught me with a tripod & camera directly beneath the bridge. I had to agree.
30 second exposure early this morning - fort lee, nj
please see the large view or the original
Google+に誕生日いれてるとこうなるんですね。
MacOS9以前で「謹賀新年」とかでるのがちょっと楽しかった自分としてはこれもちょっと楽しかったです。
あっ誕生日はとっくのとうに終わってます。年末ですんで。
マカロンのかわいいなあ、作りたい。
Nathalie Ribière Creation - don't use on blog or website without my explicite permission .. all right reserved N.Ribière
Membership card for a secret sorority organized in 1927 and 1928 by Barney Google (and the comic strip's creator, Billy DeBeck).
Google Ocean View! Images from the Pacific Ocean, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Kevin Dooley's Pan-American Trek using Google Street View.
In January 2021, we were approached by Google, via the creative agency Stink Studios, to create 10 custom designs for them. They also tasked us with producing 10 copies of each as gift sets! We are finally able to share with you the work we did! We thoroughly enjoyed working with Google and Stink Studios on these sets and they were ecstatic with the results. We hope you enjoy them as well!
You can find more pictures and an article detailing each set here playwell-bricks.com/google-bug-hunters-gift-sets/
Want a custom LEGO® model of your own?
Connect with us here playwell-bricks.com/contact-us/
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