Earlier today, I noticed my Flickr account was getting blasted with comments. After doing some peeking, I realized I had been featured on a very popular photography blog called Strobist, which has a cult-like following. It is run by a well-known photojournalist named David Hobby and is one of my daily must-reads for keeping my lighting skills up to par and for continuous inspiration from the talented photographers featured there.

More than a year ago, David Hobby quit his full-time gig as a photojournalist to devote more time to his family and to teaching his immense lighting knowledge to the masses through the Strobist blog. He is a master at using small shoe-mount strobes and has a less-is-more philosophy when it comes to equipment. He has a way of teaching people to use minimal equipment to get good lighting results – even with homemade equipment. The only revenues he receives are from advertisers on the blog and a donations section. I have huge respect for him for taking the risk to quit his job and be with his family full-time and to share his knowledge for free. Check out www.Strobist.com and the Strobist Flickr Group… there is much to be learned from both.

David, thanks so much for noticing my work and writing the feature – it’s a great honor!

The feature on my work can be found here:

http://strobist.blogspot.com/2007/10/readers-shoot-back-keith-taylor.html

The Strobist Flicker group can be found here:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/strobist/

The photos featured look like this:

Both of these were created with the Strobist mind set. There was no electricity in the building I shot them in, and the nearest outlet was a few hundred feet away. Rather than running 300 hundred feet or so of extension cord and getting it covered with soot in the process… well I decided that a couple of Vivitar 283’s would get the job done. I was quite pleased with the end result. This particular shoot was the last of 30 something photoshoots I did in order to represent multiple programs offered at Gwinnett Technical College. What a way to end it all… so nice when images just fall into place as these did.

Learn to light at www.strobist.com y’all.

Be Good,

Keith