The Strobist Goes Mainstream

The Strobist Goes Mainstream

David Hobby, AKA The Strobist, got some love outside of our geektastic photo blogosphere today, with a profile in USA Today. Hobby has been making flash photography accessible to *literally millions of folks on his instructive blog, which he started while a staff photographer at the Baltimore Sun. David’s an incredibly sweet guy; it’s fun to see him get a close up.

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photo by H Darr Beiser, USA TODAY

From the article:

    Hobby grew up in Florida and moved to Maryland
    to work for a chain of weekly newspapers as a staff photographer. He
    started work at The Sun in 1999. He has until August to decide
    whether to return. “I miss being a news photographer,” he says. “If I
    do go back, I would have to reprioritize the blog and post less
    frequently.”

    He says he still hasn’t made a decision. He
    augments his income with teaching — he leaves Thursday for a lighting
    seminar in Dubai; last week, he was at a Kentucky university — and says
    he loves the new experiences that Strobist has afforded him.

    “I have friends from all over the world now,” he says. “My readership is larger than many cities. That’s pretty heady stuff.”

Heady, indeed. Photographers are taking the world by storm.

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