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The AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER’s VIP Circle –– Announcement Post

#CircleSharingForThePeopleAPCVIP

As you all know I emptied all shared circles in order to bring some more freshness and interestingness into them again. Unfortunately I deleted the AP VIP Circle as well in the process (unintentionally of course). So I will start collecting you people into the VIP circle again.

READ the WHOLE post BEFORE you ask for inclusion.

What is the VIP circle?

It is a circle for people that are following me AND my Photoshop Tutorials page and that wants to learn more about digital photography, editing in Photoshop, lighting set-ups, tips, tricks, tweaks and hacks and so on. On the above mentioned page I will put up posts that are only visible to people in the VIP circle, related to the equally above mentioned topics. In other words, it’s a great way to improve your photographic skills and learn more from me and other members of the group.

I will share this circle with everybody on Monday, August 13.

Who can join?

Everybody. You don’t need to be particularly good or bad –– as long as you have a profound interest for photography.

What must you do?

As with all my circles, there are no free rides. Here are the rules (steps you must take) to get accepted:

1) –– Add me AND the Photoshop Tutorials page to your circles.

2) –– Plus AND reshare this post. Why? It’s very simple: if you want to get all the goodies and get promoted in the original APC, you must be prepared to promote your fellow photographer as well. Do NOT remove this reshared post from your feed immediately after I have added you to the circle. Doing so will get you banned from all my future circle shares.

3) –– Make sure that you do NOT post a lot of YouTube clips, animated GIF’s, blog post teasers etc. in your feed. I don’t mind a few reshares of other people’s work but you must mainly share your own original work on your page. I want ths VIP circle to be as clean as possible and focus on photography –– not other bling-bling. 

4) –– Ask for inclusion in the comments and please state which kind of photography you are into and that you HAVE completed all steps. I will check every feed.

Have something to say about my circles? Wanna know what others gained from being in the circles? Then go here: https://plus.google.com/116219534929662479848/posts/7Evg2rSE2Hv 

NOTE! If you see that I have plussed your comment, then you know that I have added you to the circle. I didn’t PLUS your comment? Make sure that you have reshared this announcement post and let me know that you did so.

*This announcement post is hash-tagged with #CircleSharingForThePeopleAPCVIP so that you may mute the reshares this post will generate. That way you will avoid seeing multiple copies of this post in your feed and your adrenaline level will stay normal. I will add a new hash-tag for every announcement and circle post in the future. That way you won’t miss out on any of the action but still can mute all the duplicate reshares.* 

Here is an excellent add-on that will help you to mute the reshares: http://code.google.com/p/nonplus/

Cheers!