While a circle like this has the obvious drawback of missing some excellent photographers newer to the site, Charles often follows up his Top 500 Most Followed Photographer circle with circles going all the way down to photographers with less than 5000 contacts.
Here are four circles Charles has created to help us discover and recognize photographers at all levels within the G+ community:
Under 5000 –
Under 7500 –
Under 15,000 –
500 Most Followed Photographers – (here)
I like to interact with people who are active in photography… share at least a photo or two of their own original work per week, so I'll slowly whittle the circle down to a stream of excellent photography (I've started, but may not finish for a few weeks).
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+Charles Lupica Charles Lupica Dec 25, 2012 (edited) – Public
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Top 500 most followed photographers list
circle of 500
and Group 6: 421 to 500
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If you're not in this circle and you think you should be, I'm sorry. I have missed a few people by pure accident. My methods are entirely manual and I do miss people. I have checked every profile and I have included only those people that share their own work, and share it on G+. Bloggers and people doing mostly reshares weren't included. Some big name photographers that don't share a lot of their own work were included – sorry for the double standard.
Here is the 6th and last part of my list of the top 500 most followed photographers – Here are links to the previous parts of the list.
Group 1: http://tinyurl.com/cf58vws – 1 to 100
Group 2: http://tinyurl.com/bodaspk – 101 to 193
Group 3: http://tinyurl.com/bsb87u4 – 194 to 250 and circle
Group 4: http://tinyurl.com/d4ulv6q – 250 to 340
Group 5: http://tinyurl.com/cjpmgy4 – 341 to 420
Group 6: 421 to 500 and circle of 500 (this post)
If you are on this list, I urge you to comment, plus and share the post.
I have sifted through lots of pages and circles as well as http://circlecount.com/ to try to get an accurate list. If I'm missing anyone, please let me know. I have specifically left off a few people who only share links to their content housed elsewhere, people who share a lot of other people's work without sharing their own, or people that appear to be inactive.
The rank numbers are off by 1 because I included the same person twice in an earlier list.
#Top500CircleDec #circleshare #circlesharing #sharedcircles #sharedpubliccircles
420 +Jennifer Luzio 21797
421 +Matt Suess 21794
422 +Nichole McCall 21754
423 +Dane Clingan 21718
424 +Xavier Ruiz Canadell 21700
425 +Emi Fujimoto 21697
426 +Peyton Hale 21665
427 +Klaus Kubelka 21650
428 +Nick Chill 21620
429 +Brandon Doran 21594
430 +Scott Kublin 21582
431 +JUNE FERROL 21563
432 +Heiko Köster 21548
433 +Kel Hayner 21458
434 +Greg Schmigel 21429
435 +camelia bogorin 21375
436 +Dawid Martynowski 21375
437 +Beverly Cash 21366
438 +Matthias Haeussler 21347
439 +Aaron Sosa 21335
440 +Wayne Marinovich 21334
441 +Bill Wood 21229
442 +Regina Pagles 21227
443 +Lauren Hurst 21180
444 +Irmgard Hartmann 21136
445 +Martin OBER 21129
446 +Hidehiko Sakashita 21108
447 +Randy Jay Braun 21101
448 +Marketta Aaltonen 21095
449 +Tricia McDonald Ward 21015
450 +Andreas Wecker 20960
451 +Randall Sanger 20920
452 +YASUKA SUZUKI 20920
453 +Jo Garrett 20921
454 +Clark Crenshaw 20896
455 +Lorena Masi 20890
456 +Natascha Schröder 20886
457 +David Murphy 20863
458 +Andreas Levi 20843
459 +Daniel Treadwell 20756
460 +David Terry 20756
461 +Brett Crosby 20730
462 +J. Rae Chip 20719
463 +Sangeeth VS 20701
464 +Gailen Mapes 20665
465 +Dirk Vietzke 20652
466 +Snorri Gunnarsson 20629
467 +Drew Hopper 20580
468 +Laurie Rubin 20552
469 +Patrick Hübschmann 20502
470 +Hidetaka Onoyama 20502
471 +Gary Randall 20495
472 +Mikael Svensson 20780
473 +Ian Plant 20455
474 +Erwin Vindl 20451
475 +Dietrich Bojko 20418
476 +Russ Bishop 20409
477 +Julia Harwood 20405
478 +David Thompson 20374
479 +Zero Dean 20363
480 +Shelly Gunderson 20293
481 +Jenn Oliver 20298
482 +Jake Johnson 20281
483 +Geoff Ridenour 20276
484 +Todd Sisson 20241
485 +Yuga Kurita 20188
486 +Matt Shalvatis 20186
487 +Beverly Everson 20078
488 +Daniel Chen 20069
489 +Alex Wild 20039
490 +Remo Primatesta 19964
491 +Luc Asbury 19933
492 +Melissa Kester 19878
493 +A.D. Wheeler 19868
494 +Christopher Prins 19856
495 +Nick Gatens 19827
496 +Baldur McQueen 19820
497 +David Kingham 19800
498 +Sam Breach 19812
499 +Lance Rudge 19786
326 +Andy Gray 24815
500 +Thomas Paris 19758
501 +René Pirker 19703
107 +Rinus Bakker 43313
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Comments
nice
many thanks +Jeff Sullivan !
Thanks +Jeff Sullivan for the share this is quite the group of photographers +Charles Lupica has laboured to produce
+Jeff Sullivan – thank you so much for sharing. I don't have any immediate plans for another circle but your mentions always get me thinking that I need to do an update of the under 20'000, under 10'000, and people to watch
thank you +Jeff Sullivan
one ore two of my original photographs a week? I can promise that this is what you can get from me. Or may be some more 🙂
If it is excellent? You must decide it yourself 😉
Thanks for sharing the circle, I'm not just a professional photographer and amateur not work very well as circles, I have little time in google+, I would be in this circle because I love photography and it is a way of seeing precious moments world in which we live, if my writing convinces him great for me because I can still see the wonders that you work, greetings
nice list and as you said missing upcomming photographers 🙂 +Jeff Sullivan
That would be a heck of a job +Charles Lupica
+Walter Soestbergen I always raise an eyebrow when I read that a circle of 500 is fully verified. Consider that 5 minutes per profile equals over 40 hours. Three (3) minutes per profile = 25 hours. So, a fully verified circle should take between 25 and 40 hours to produce. For this circle, I scanned the list on CircleCount, looked at some profile that turned out to be other than photographers, and had to decide if the person was photographer, blogger, con-man, or inactive. I then copied their G+ ID number into a Word document, then typed in the follower count and their name. I have no idea how long that took, but I'll guess that it was more than 40 hours.
In the end, I missed at least 3 people that I know of, totally by accident. I'll be honest and say I included some of the high rollers because I felt it wasn't wise to leave them out. I left out some fairly popular people because all they do is promote products and drive traffic to commercial websites, or they blog and don't share photography.
Any way, the time involved and the resistance to large circles is why I've taken to sharing smaller circles for most of my circle shares.
Thank you for sharing +Jeff Sullivan and thank you for your great work +Charles Lupica :-)!
I know how intensive the work can be 🙂 for sure when you start a fresh circle 🙂 +Charles Lupica thanks for explaning your workflow
thanks for the reshare +Jeff Sullivan and thanks as always +Charles Lupica I know first-hand how hard it is to verify circles person-by-person =)
The investment of time you put into curating these +Charles Lupica is an epic gift to the G+ photographer community. I just forwarded your latest "under 15,000" circle, the "under 7,500" is queued up and ready to go, and next I'll go see if you circulated the "under 5000" one you were looking for nominations for recently.
+Jeff Sullivan thanks for including me 🙂 great people and circle! 🙂
Thank you +Jeff Sullivan for the inclusion, much appreciated :))
Thanks Jeff. I love checking out +Charles Lupica's circles. Honored to be included.
Thanks +Charles Lupica and +Jeff Sullivan! Charles, I'm pretty sure I thanked you when you put this out, but it was pretty hectic around Christmas and I may have missed it. If I missed it, thanks – if not, thanks again!
I can't believe I'm included in this! Awesome 🙂 Thanks for the sharing.
nice +Jeff Sullivan
Thanks for the inclusion and effort once again you guys!
Cheers +Jeff Sullivan 🙂
Thank you, +Jeff Sullivan!
+Jeff Sullivan thanks Jeff for shring these.
Thanks for the reshare, +Jeff Sullivan and thanks +Charles Lupica for the inclusion! I've unfortunately been a bit inactive around here, but hope to get back in the swing of things . . .