Category: Photo Talk Plus

Posted on

Photo Talk Plus, Episode 4, With Special Guest Trey Ratcliff

Last night we recorded a very special episode of Photo Talk Plus with Trey Ratcliff. Thank you to Trey who offered such a heartfelt candid personal interview about both him and his work. Trey is a very humble individual who spends so much more time promoting other photographers than his own art and work. He’s given so much to the Google+ Community and I enjoyed having an opportunity to really focus more directly on him as a person and an artist.

If you missed last night’s show, I really hope you’ll take some time to watch this episode and get to know a little bit more about Trey. Trey is a good friend and this was one of my favorite hangouts I’ve done on Google+ yet.

Thank you to everyone involved with last night’s show including my cohost Lotus Carroll and last night’s panelists Lili Ana Chris Chabot Brian Matiash (thanks for giving away a copy of onOne Software’s Perfect Photo Suite) and Keith Barrett.

Thanks also to Keith for broadcasting our show as usual on the Vidcast Network and thanks to everyone who participated in the chat room while we broadcasted. You are the community and are the ones that make Google+ such a great place for photographers.

A special thank you also to our show sponsors Drobo and SmugMug

Check them out here at Drobo and SmugMug.

Thank you also to Chee Chew and everyone on the Google Hangouts team for giving us this remarkable new “On Air” feature that allows us to make these videos available here on Google+ and on YouTube.

Posted on

Join Us TONIGHT for a very special episode of Photo Talk Plus with special Guest Trey Ratcliff, 8PM PST

Trey

Please join Lotus Carroll and myself tonight live for an interview with our very own Trey Ratcliff!!! Tonight’s broadcast will be LIVE at the Vidcast Network and LIVE on my Google+ stream with the new Hangouts On Air feature. Learn more about Trey’s unique photography, outlook on life, and how he has been able to build one of the most successful photography businesses on the planet today with Stuck In Customs.

Tonight’s panelists include Google’s Chris Chabot, Brian Matiash from onOne Software Lili Ana and Vidcast Network’s Keith Barrett.

In addition to tonight’s interview with Trey Ratcliff we’ll also discuss some of the top Google+ photography related stories of the past week including the upcoming Google+ Photography Book being curated by Ivan Makarov as well as the upcoming Google+ Scavenger Hunt curated by Chrysta Rae. We’ll also take questions from the chat room directly for Trey so come prepared to learn more about what makes Trey tick.

One lucky viewer tonight will also win a copy of onOne Software’s Perfect Photo Suite.

This will be an episode you won’t want to miss.

As always thank you to our +Photo Talk Plus show sponsors SmugMug and Drobo for helping to bring you more great Google+ photography interviews live each week. Check them out here at SmugMug and Drobo.

If you’ve missed our first three episodes you can watch any of them here.

The show is also available as a Podcast now on iTunes.

Posted on

Photo Talk Plus Episode 3, Broadcasting LIVE at 8PM PST Tonight!!!

To

Join +Lotus Carroll and myself tonight LIVE at 8PM PST for a very special episode of +Photo Talk Plus.

Tonight our very special guest will be none other than +Karen Hutton (pictured below with Lotus). Karen is an amazing photographer with mad processing skills who will process one of her photos live online tonight in addition to the interview.

In addition to our interview with Karen, well dissect and analyze the top photography related stories of the past week on Google+ with our panelists +Vincent Mo (from Google Photos), +sly vegas Photoshop Pro +Jan Kabili and +Keith Barrett. We’ll talk about Google’s new lightbox view that launched this week with Vincent, as well as discuss popular G+ stories this past week by +Trey Ratcliff +Ivan Makarov +Patrick Di Fruscia and more!

If you missed last week’s show with NASA Astronaut +Ron Garan you can watch that here: http://keithbarrett.com/media/photo-talk-plus-2 It was an amazing episode about space photography and Ron’s amazing photos.

We’re going to broadcast tonight’s episode of Photo Talk Plus in two places — right here in my Google+ Stream with the new On Air Hangouts, as well as on the Vidcast Network with +Keith Barrett http://vidcastnetwork.com.

We’ll have recordings after the show available on both Vidcast as well as Youtube going forward.

A special thank you to tonight’s show sponsors +SmugMug and +Drobo (follow them on Google+!!!!) and check them out at http://smugmug.com and http://drobo.com

Posted on

Photo Talk Plus EP 2 with NASA Astronaut Ron Garan


Watch live video from The Vidcast Network on Justin.tv

We had a fantastic time talking to NASA Astronaut Ron Garan on Episode 2 of Photo Talk Plus. He shared his experiences of photographing from space with us, and it was truly inspiring and educating. Thanks so much to our panelists Catherine Hall, Ricardo Lagos, and Sandra Parlow for adding to the conversation.

Thank you to Keith Barret & Vidcast Network for broadcasting and recording, and to our wonderful sponsors SmugMug and Drobo.

http://www.smugmug.com
http://www.drobo.com
http://vidcastnetwork.com

Posted on

A Sunday Photo Talk Plus Extra!

In this Photo Talk Plus Extra, Lotus Carroll and I talk with photographers Billy Wilson, Olav Folland, Doug Kaye, Todd Green and Helen Sotiriadis.

In this discussion we talk about Olav’s aerial photography this week and his photos from a Cessna airplane of the Golden Gate Bridge.

We recap Lotus’ San Antonio photowalk yesterday and share photos from the walk.

We talk about a new Christmas based photography series Billy Wilson has started.

We talk about 10 photography based films for photographers to watch and review my personal Amazon.com wishlist for photography related items that I want for Christmas this year. 🙂

We also share the photos of Helen Sotiriadis and talk about some of those.

Todd Green joins us for his very first hangout ever and Doug Kaye stops in and updates on his movie plans tonight. 😉

Towards the end Mark Esguerra joins us, but too late as we already were over the 1 hour broadcast mark.

Braden Carroll makes a brief guest appearance to remind us all that he loves us.

Thanks to our +Photo Talk Plus sponsors +SmugMug and +Drobo Check them out at http://smugmug.com and http://drobo.com.

Posted on

Photo Talk Plus LIVE 8PM PST Tonight!!! Special Guest Photographer and NASA Astronaut Ron Garan!!!

We are *super pleased* to have a very special guest on Episode 2 of +Photo Talk Plus tonight. NASA Astronaut +Ron Garan. *8PM PST LIVE* at http://keithbarrett.tv

Join +Lotus Carroll and myself tonight along with panelists +Keith Barrett +Catherine Hall +Ricardo Lagos +Jim Sherhart and +Sandra Parlow for an exciting second episode of our new photography videocast.

Tonight’s episode will be a great one to learn more about what it’s like to take photographs in space and to learn more about some of the unique scenes/locations that Ron has been able to photograph in.

We will announce the winner of last week’s Drobo/SmugMug giveaway as well as give away a custom SmugMug metal print tonight too.

Don’t miss tonight’s live broadcast, we look forward to seeing you there. There will be a broadcast for viewing later for people who are not able to make the live broadcast.

Thank you also to tonight’s show sponsors +Drobo and +SmugMug. Be sure to add them on Google+ and check them out at http://drobo.com and http://smugmug.com!

Posted on

Do You Buy Photography Advertising?

Trey Ratcliff did a little experiment comparing the return on his advertising in traditional old world media like photography magazines vs. new world media like websites and blogs. His analysis shows a much better payoff for him using photo web sites and blogs to advertise vs. photography magazines.

Do you buy photo related advertising? If so what do you think of Trey’s analysis and where do you think is the best bang for your buck?

Oh and go check out Episode one of our new video show Photo Talk Plus. It’s out now. Sponsored by advertisers who DO get it over at SmugMug and Drobo. And don’t miss episode #2 next Wednesday night at 8pm PST when we’ll have space photographer NASA astronaut Ron Garan on the show.