Photo Talk Plus with special guest Joe Azure

Episode 22 of Photo Talk Plus is available to view on YouTube. Cohost Thomas Hawk and I had a great time interviewing Joe Azure, who is an all around great photographer and has taken amazing and iconic photos of the Golden Gate Bridge. He shared his experiences and advice with us about shooting the bridge, as well as other scenes and long exposure photography with filters.  Joe and our other wonderful panelists: Vincent Mo of Google Photos, Brad Sloan, Vivienne Gucwa, Suzanne Haggerty and Keith Barrett of Vidcast Network discussed a variety of topics including the new Google+ iPhone app, the NEX 7, and the top photos of the previous week.

Thanks, as always, to our sponsors SmugMug and Blurb Books, who make the show possible. Join us next Wednesday, live at 8PM Pacific at http://vidcastnetwork.com, for another episode with special guest Mike Shaw!

Photo Talk Plus Live Tonight at 8PM Pacific with Mickey Osterreicher

Go to http://vidcastnetwork.com tonight – after you watch LIFE Through The Lens stick around for Photo Talk Plus (usually airing on Wednesdays) at 8PM Pacific with Award Winning Photojournalist and Attorney for the National Press Photographer’s Association, Mickey Osterreicher.

What a great show it will be – come ready to ask Mickey all your photography/art/legal questions. We have an amazing panel available for discussion as well, including cohost Thomas Hawk, Photography Is Not A Crime Blogger Carlos Miller, Tamara Pruessner from LIFE Through The Lens, photographer Sandra Parlow, and Keith Barrett of  Vidcast Network.

Thanks to our wonderful sponsors, SmugMug http://smugmug.com and Blurb Books http://blurb.com! They provide great products and services for photographers. Thomas Hawk was at SmugMug HQ this past week and filmed a live hangout tour, which you can see here: http://youtu.be/licf7-4JxMo

So join us this evening and get in the chatroom with us at http://vidcastnetwork.com/chat and hang out at 8PM Pacific. Be ready with your questions for Mickey Osterreicher and our panel and to have a great time. See you all there!

Plus One Collection Limited Edition Fine Art Photography Book

 

If you’ve been following me at all you know that I’m a big fan of Google+ and feel that it’s the best social networking platform out there nowadays, and especially if you’re a photographer. The Photography community there is vibrant and active and engaged, and I can’t say enough good things about the connections I’ve made and the amazing work I’m exposed to every time I log on and watch my stream move by. I’ve had the best conversations about art, life, and passion there and it’s a part of my day I truly look forward to when I sit down at my computer.

Here’s another sign of community and art flourishing there – with Ivan Makarov at the helm, and many others working hard to contribute their efforts, there is a beautiful G+ community photography book that has been created. The book holds the work of photographers active on G+ and all net profits go to Kiva, a fantastic charity organization. There are going to be 3 versions of this book, and the very first one is available NOW.

You can purchase it here: +One Collection, 2011

The Limited Edition of the Plus One Collection launched TODAY and is only available to purchase for 10 days. After that, it will never be made available for purchase again. Here are some details about the book:

• 193 artists featured, 200 pages long
• 11×13, landscape
• Printed on Fine Art Paper
• Includes a bonus print, made to museum standards, of one of the photos in the book
• Only Available to purchase for the next 10 days
• Ships in early March
• All profits go to Kiva

Don’t miss your chance to purchase this book – one of a kind, limited edition with big, beautiful photographs and a wonderful contribution to charity.

 

 

When the 10 days for this Limited Edition are over, there will be a standard version of the book available as well, and eventually an eBook version with over 500 photos submitted from the G+ Photography Community.

Photo Talk Plus, EP7 With Nicole S Young

If you missed this episode with special guest Nicole S Young, you can watch it here easily. Nicole is a successful professional photographer who makes a decent income doing food / stock photography. She gave many tips and insight into doing this kind of work. You can view all her books by clicking here.

In addition to interviewing Nicole, along with our panelists Timothy Jordan, Ivan Makarov, Gino Barasa and Kimberly Pemberton we discussed the following topics:

• Best of 2011 – G+ Photography Book
• SOPA/PIPA
• New Google+ text on photos feature
• Google+ photography related hashtags
• Trey Ratcliff s article from GigaOm on why eBooks are so successful

 

Join us for EP7 of Photo Talk Plus with Nicole S Young Tonight!

Join cohost Thomas Hawk and me for the live  Photo Talk Plus videocast as we interview professional photographer Nicole S. Young tonight. Nicole is a successful food & lifestyle photographer making a living in stock photography with iStockphoto and Getty Images.  We’ll also have photographers Gino Barasa, kimberly pemberton, Ivan Makarov, and Googler Timothy Jordan present as panelists to discuss the latest in G+ Photography News.

Join us live in the post threads and get your stock and food photography questions answered by Nicole! Look for the On Air Hangout at 8PM PST in Thomas Hawk‘s stream.

Thanks so much to our wonderful sponsors Drobo at http://drobo.com and SmugMug at http://smugmug.com and to all of you who watch and support the show every week. See you there tonight!

Photo Talk Plus EP6 with Alan Shapiro

We had another great episode of Photo Talk Plus on Wednesday night with special guest Alan Shapiro.  Alan’s a self described “Executive-Level Creative Guy” and he’s an amazing photographer with personality to spare. Check out the video above if you missed the live show this past week.

Thanks so much to our panelists Dave Cohen from Google Photos, Profesional Landscape Photographer Jeffrey Sullivan, G+ Scavenger Hunt Curator Chrysta Rae and Keith Barrett of Vidcast Network @ http://vidcastnetwork.com. It’s been such a pleasure to be able to get groups of photographers together and do these shows.

Fellow host Thomas Hawk and I talked about shooting the North American International Auto Show this week in Detroit on behalf of Ford, which was informative and very shiny! (I like shiny.) See Thomas’s NAIAS Set on Flickr here. Our entire panel weighed in on some interesting news stories including Mike Shaw‘s write up on long exposure photography and the Lee Big Stopper filter, Jeremy Cowart‘s post on a new type of camera from CES, Leodor Selenier‘s post on the photography of Kim Keever, and more.

Special thanks to our awesome sponsors, SmugMug @ http://smugmug.com and Drobo @http://drobo.com These are two companies we believe in personally and we appreciate their support!

Join us for Photo Talk Plus EP5 with Colby Brown Tonight!

Join us tonight at 8PM PST on The Vidcast Network for Episode 5 of Photo Talk Plus. You can also watch live via the “On Air” Hangout feature on cohost Thomas Hawk’s profile (refresh around showtime to see it appear). Our special guest tonight is Colby Brown, a very talented, professional fine art landscape, travel, and humanitarian photographer. You won’t want to miss out on the interview with him and find out what makes him tick, how he finds time for all his projects and efforts (like The Giving Lens), and what kind of processing secrets he has. And maybe whether he ever sleeps.

As always, we’ll be discussing popular photography topics from Google+ from the previous week with our guest and our panelists. Joining us this week are Google+ Community Manager Natalie Villalobos, Photographers Michael Seneschal and Anna Nguyen, and our Videocast Broadcaster Extraordinaire Keith Barrett. Thanks to our sponsors who support us and offer fantastic services and products to photographers: SmugMug and Drobo.

We’d love to have you there LIVE at 8PM PST – the discussion threads on G+ and Chat Room at Vidcast are great places to hang out while you watch the show so you can talk to other photographers, make new contacts, and of course ask questions you want answered during the second hour of the broadcast!

See you there!

 

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Photo of Colby by Scott Jarvie of Jarvie Digital
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Photo Talk Plus EP4 with Special Guest Trey Ratcliff

What a great episode of Photo Talk Plus last night with special guest Trey Ratcliff of Stuck in Customs. I’ve grown to respect Trey a lot over this past year. We are all very complex human beings, but it’s really great when someone so talented and interesting opens themselves up on so many different levels and shares such a wide range of information. I really appreciate how much Trey contributes to the photographic community and admire how personal and open he is about most everything about himself. Check out the video above if you missed the live show last night!

Thanks so much to our panelists Chris Chabot Brian Matiash of OnOne Software (and he gave away a copy of Photo Suite 6 to one of our viewers!), and +Lili Ana, and to our awesome tech-guy Keith Barrett of Vidcast Network @ http://vidcastnetwork.com. It’s been such a pleasure to be able to get groups of photographers together and do these shows. It’s so exciting for fellow host Thomas Hawk and myself when we see people in the chat room and the hangout threads asking questions, and when we hear that others are enjoying this, too!

Special thanks to our awesome sponsors, SmugMug @ http://smugmug.com and Drobo @http://drobo.com These are two companies we believe in personally and we appreciate their support!