David Hobby's super popular photographer.

Because of David's superb photography skills, he is often invited by some organizations and individuals to give lectures with repetitive themes and contents. Because of his kindness, David had to promise that he would try to open a blog to publish what he had been teaching repeatedly. That's how flash knowledge was born. David Howby, on the other hand, said frankly and humorously: The emergence of flash knowledge actually stems from my laziness.

At the beginning of blogging, David knew almost nothing about Internet technology. He doesn't even know how powerful Internet information dissemination is and what it can bring him. With many years of professional photography experience and the application experience of small flash, David wrote a wonderful blog. After his views were published on the blog, they were quickly supported and responded. A few months later, the number of blog visits soared to millions. People either praise David's unique views, or praise his excellent practical skills, or put forward different opinions on photography. All this makes David happy to find a lover. An unexpected blog has made him and his technical ideas more widely recognized by fans. While David was excited, he also deeply realized that many people were stupid on the road of chasing equipment. They need to wake up, produce evidence and arm their minds with new ideas and knowledge to stop this meaningless pursuit. So David began to work harder to organize the theme and write a blog. Wonderful content makes knowledgeable readers snowball. For photographers, the greatest benefit of flash knowledge is free photography knowledge, which has been widely concerned and welcomed. After a while, David grew tired of all kinds of emails flying to the mailbox. He wants to spend a little time running a blog every day, which almost kills all his spare time. Fortunately, with the increasing popularity of the website and the increasing number of visitors, people began to contact David's advertising business. This made him get the reward of his labor-his income even exceeded that of the newspaper. This trend became so fierce that many advertisers later had to wait in line for vacancies in order to put advertisements on David's blog. Finally, David decided to quit his job as a newspaper photographer to write blog articles and experiment with small flash technology.

What Mr. David himself didn't expect was that this blog became famous overnight, and then it quickly became popular all over the world ... Two months after its opening, the number of hits reached six figures. In the following year, 1 1.7 million photographers around the world became "fans" of the blog, with about 1.5 million views per month; At present, the customer base is as high as 350,000 people, and the monthly page views exceed 265,438+10,000 times ... At present, it is showing an increasing trend, becoming the most "awesome" photography blog in the world-the blog version with the largest readership, the most dynamic community, the most influential in the industry and the most languages.

Because of the sudden, David was almost caught off guard, and his "no strict timetable" had to be turned into a "full-time" blog construction after work. Due to the popularity of blogs, in June 2007, Mr. David resolutely quit his job as a photojournalist for the Baltimore Sun and wrote blogs full-time. Now his income mainly comes from the advertising income of blogs, and it has also become the main source of their family of four.

His blog has a friendly tone and is really useful. It has a good guiding role for photographers, especially beginners. The interaction with readers is also full of freedom, and more is to encourage readers to feedback and practice. David's blog is fundamentally different from most other photography websites. These photography websites can be divided into two categories: the first category is mainly about photography equipment, which mainly introduces the functions, parameters and cost performance of the equipment, which is very different from flash knowledge; David's blog won't tell you what to buy, but teach you how to make better use of the equipment you already have and take better photos. The second kind of photography website is a chaotic photography forum, where all kinds of people have it, and there is no guarantee that the other party is a professional expert; David's blog is based on his years of teaching experience and shooting practice, and introduces the shooting process of each photo in detail with his own personal experience. All the articles are original. In this way, articles with flash knowledge can directly improve the level of taking pictures, so they are welcomed by the public.