Dustin Diaz Photography

Welcome to the 365 project blog of professional photographer Dustin Diaz

Happiness

March 14th, 2010 | 64 Comments

man, expression, happiness, nikon, d3, 200mmf20g

I pulled this one out from Cam & Lisa's wedding set. I don't know who it is, but I like this man's expression.

I did, however, catch many other moments just like this during the wedding, but for some reason this one stuck out to me and I thought I'd share it.

Erin and I are delivering their photos to them tonight — our hope is that they'll like what they see :)

Day Three Hundred Sixty Five

December 31st, 2009 | 631 Comments| [permalink]

365, theend, strobist, threelights, nikon, d3, 200mmf20g, sanfrancisco, market, kickedoutbycops, train, me, final, holycrapthisisover, congratsdustin, featured

365/365. The End (and making of)

Good bye everyone.

Day Three Hundred Fifty Nine

December 25th, 2009 | 60 Comments| [permalink]

365, strobist, christmas, santa, apple, portrait, dedfolio, featured, onelight, softbox, cto, nikon, d3, 200mmf20g

359/365. I am Santaand I like apples

Except of course, not this one - because it's wrotten.

Hey, who said my ideas would start to make any sense by the end of the year?

Anyway, Merry Christmas folks. Don't waste your time here. Go play with some new toys ;)

Or of course, see the details...

setup, camera, strobist info: see here

Day Three Hundred Fifty Four

December 20th, 2009 | 85 Comments| [permalink]

365, strobist, sunday, christmas, linda, onelight, nikon, d3, sb900, sanfrancisco, portrait, umbrella, 200mmf20g, dedfolio, featured

354/365. Perchance to dreamAy, there's the rub

Had a Christmas present shoot today which was a gift from Linda (shown in photo) to Stephen (the other half). This was shot in the Montgomery Mall center thingy place... outdoor... place... yeah. You'll also see Erin holding a lightstand in the setup shot too. 'Twas a great end to a long weekend.

11 more days!

... and of course, you lighting folks that made this such a great year... let's do this.

setup, camera, strobist info: see here

Day Three Hundred Forty Nine

December 15th, 2009 | 88 Comments| [permalink]

365, tuesday, marriage, strobist, dedfolio, featured, kiss, sanfrancisco, wedding, moms, parents, walk, street, nikon, d3, 200mmf20g

349/365. Lovebe spontaneous

Everyone, meet Megan, Claude, and their Moms. They just got married.

Continuing along with the end of the year favorite photographers, I wanted to call out Maxime Villalonga, a Paris based Photographer from whom I've also gathered much inspiration and has heavily influenced my own photography. Give his work a look and click back a few pages.

strobist: SB-900 @ 1/16 @ 17mm w/ 1/2 CTO thru 50" big mama softbox. front left of frame.

Day Three Hundred Forty Four

December 10th, 2009 | No Comments| [permalink]

365, strobist, 200mmf20g, thursday

344/365. Suicidethis is my subtitlte that links to a larger version

Ok. Everyone in the world knows how to create shots like these. So I'm purposefully disabling comments (yeah yeah, "nice bokeh" bla bla). You want to see some who is actually talented at this? Everyone, see Roger Lim. Hands down, best out-of-focus photographer. See you tomorrow.

Day Three Hundred Forty One

December 8th, 2009 | 103 Comments| [permalink]

365, strobist, monday, street, sanfrancisco, twolights, missiondistrict, postalservice, dedfolio, featured, nikon, d3, gels, softbox, 200mmf20g, me, dustindiaz

341/365. I am not a permanentand the only thing keeping me dry is where I am ~ Postal Service

I can feel my throat getting dry.... which means I shouldn't be taking photos like this outside in the freezing San Francisco weather. As I'm typing this I may have finally caught that cough I've been avoiding all year.

Anyway, today was a Monday. This is how Monday's go.

Lighting geeks, do your thing :)

setup, camera, strobist info: see here

Day Three Hundred Thirty Four

December 1st, 2009 | 58 Comments| [permalink]

365, monday, 200mmf20g

334/365. Untitledview large

"When you can't get a day off, you get an off day in return" - Me

See you tomorrow.

Day Three Hundred Twenty Four

November 20th, 2009 | 80 Comments| [permalink]

365, strobist, erin, friday, sanfrancisco, missiondistrict, portrait, hotness, dedfolio, featured, twolights, gel, nikon, d3, 200mmf20g, sb900

324/365. Hot to the touchso wear some gloves

Sorry for the wait folks. Major thanks to those who have been voting for me (for Flickr photog of the year)! You guys rock! And of course if you haven't had the chance yet, you still can. It's crazy to know that 2009 is coming close to an end and this 365 will sadly be discontinued.

Anyway, here's a classic of Erin for ya. She is damn hot; this I know.

And now for the rest of the goods...

setup, camera, strobist info: see here

Day Two Hundred Ninety One

October 18th, 2009 | 97 Comments| [permalink]

365, sunday, erincaton, strobist, portrait, dangerous, knives, killer, murder, sunglasses, night, evening, action, nikon, d3, stubby, 200mmf20g, twolights, skirt, dedfolio, featured, omfgerinishotsors

291/365. I will destroy youand really, who's going to argue with that? ( << view large! )

There was a few things that made tonight feel right, and this photo was part of it. It's beginning to get dark out earlier, and I've had too long of a rest from the city (with a camera). Erin and I didn't travel far, but it we got the job done.

Alright now. let's do this lighting thing....

setup, camera, strobist info: see here

and for the sake of submitting this to strobist pool:
2 lights. one SB @ 1/16 camera left. one SB @ 1/128 camera right ;)

All photos © Dustin Diaz, 2010. Not for resale or redistribution