Dustin Diaz Photography

279/365. The Hero of Time — is just a boy

This is Link, The Hero of Time, whom remains one of my all-time fantasy heroes. Over time, I've found many similarities between myself, and this fictional character. Thus the reason my profile avatar has remained unchanged for the last seven years. But for time reasons, I won't go into detail on that stuffs now.

Anyhow, still a day behind and basically need to do another shot tonight before falling asleep (still jet laggin').

and now for lighting geeks...

setup, camera, strobist info: see here

167/365. Cat Lady, the Band — Become a groupie

A day late in posting this — it was a great birthday. I was quite impressed with Spork last night. It's not common to have a restaurant make a custom menu for your birthday. It may have been the highest form of V.I.P I've ever had at any business.

Anyhow, this shot was taken immediately after closing time and happened all within a few minutes (it's all a blur now). Braden helped put together the lights, Ario held another. I dialed in the power settings, then Erin orchestrated the rest. I still barely remember this even happening — but it was great!

setup geeks keep on clickin'

setup, camera, strobist info: see here

127/365. 2 legit 2 quit ~ MC Hammer

It's not every day you get to hang out with MC Hammer. But today it happened at the Twitter HQ. Oh, yeah, and the guy on the right, that's Britt... he's been around since Twitter was like 5 guys.

Anyhow, I may have been the only person in the office that at one point in time memorized every single word from his Please, Hammer, Don't hurt 'em album.... and then went on to do family dance offs to Too Legit to Quit (hey, I was eleven).

Regarding this particular photo, if you ever have the chance to shoot a celebrity (with a camera), you do not want to waste time baffling with settings. Therefore I dialed in to what I was hoping to be a perfect exposure... and I came pretty damn near close (considering I shoot full manual across the board (shutter, aperture, iso, WB, flash — JPEG)... and on that note, strobist setup junkaholics read on...

camera, setup, strobist info: see here

92/365. Believe me when I say...

Oh, you know the rest. Everyone, this is Willie D. A local here in the Mission who does performances at various corners. I ran into him at the 24th & Mission BART train corner next to El Farolitos Taco shop. I kindly asked if I could take a photograph of him because these glasses are just out of this world.

strobist info: Nikon SB-900 @ 1/32 high camera right into 43" collapisble umbrella w/ 1/8 CTO gel — leaned it up against some fence rail thingy... I was lucky the wind didn't knock it down. Triggered via Pocket Wizard II's.

camera info: Nikon D700 | 200mm(ƒ/2.0G) | ƒ/2.0 | ISO 800 | 1/40s VR-on — handheld, about 10' away

80/365. Queen of Apocalypse

Today we (Erin and Dave and myself) went on a day trip for Dim sum, then to the Santa Cruz mountains for wine tasting, a brief stop for coffee and tea, then lastly the beach for a mini photoshoot. In the end, it was quite an awesome day.

This photo is a combination of vivid Nikon colors and a vibrant flash. Extra contrast was added in post-production.

strobist info: see here

camera info: Nikon D700 | 14-24mm(ƒ/2.8G)@14mm | ƒ/3.5 | ISO 400 | 1/50s

69/365.
Seeing is believing

Ever seen something so sexy? Yeah, what you see here is exactly what you think it is. A few of you already know the story, but for those that are curious. Ask me off-thread ;)

Happy Bokeh Wednesday Eve

One from this last Photo Friday. Petra and Erin show off their cameras. Dave got some similar shots as we were all borrowing pocket wizards. This also makes it easier to drop in the strobist info since he already wrote it!

Strobist info: Nikon SB900 @ 1/1 into 43" silver reflective umbrella 45° camera right about 3' from subject angled down. Secondary flash, Vivitar 285Hv @ 1/1 shot through 45" convertible umbrella, 45° camera left about 2' from subject angled up.

camera info: Nikon D700 | 14-24mm(ƒ/2.8G)@15mm | ƒ/6.3 | ISO 200 | 1/250s

52/365. Does every 365 project have to have a quote go along with every picture? ~ Erin Caton (on cheesy quotes paired with 365 photos)

large on black (worth it)

A storm was a'brewin' and we caught it just in time as the clouds started to scour the rooftop of our home. Just immediately before this shot we were watching cartoons and making grid spots with coroplast and super glue so it was a great reason to get out of the house due to the smell. This was shot with my dinky little SB-600 on full power :) strobist geeks can read the info.

Model: Erin Caton

Strobist info: SB-600 @ 1/1 into collapsed 45" convertible umbrella (so more like 20") about 6' from subject. Head was set to 24mm.

Camera info: Nikon D700 | 14-24mm(f/2.8G)@14mm | f/8 | ISO 800 | 1/2s | rear curtain (or what you canonites call second curtain)

This was shot yesterday but I apparently misuploaded it... or never really did — I was tired and spent the night strobing it up.

Anyway, Erin paused for a minute to get a really cool shot of this thing. So if you thought this thing was cool looking from my end, see the shot she took!