Dustin Diaz Photography

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

129/365. Happy 5th birthday, Flickr

do this photo justice by seeing it large

What a crazy night being in a room filled with more cameras than you could imagine. Today marked a belated 5th birthday (5.25 to be exact) for Flickr. In celebration, there was a party downtown in San Francisco. And as you could imagine, we packed light. Unfortunately I don't have a complimentary setup photo since this was more or less a "one-time-only" shot that we either got it right, or not at all. Not to mention, this may be the only time in my life that I will ever have an entire room looking at me while I stand on top of a bar (although no sexy dance proceded).

Cheers to flickr, and thank you for continuing to be awesome.

camera, setup, strobist junkies... you can keep reading the giant chuck of text that ensues...

camera info: Nikon D700 | 14-24mm(ƒ/2.8G)@15mm | ƒ/4.0 | ISO 640 | 1/50s

strobist:
SB-900 @ 1/8 @ 14mm thru 1/8 CTO camera left
SB-900 @ 1/8 @ 14mm thru 1/8 CTO camera right
SB-900 @ 1/4 @ 20mm into 43" silver umbrella high center behind me standing on top of the bar. triggered via pocket wizard ii's

setup: it took near 30 minutes of coordinating this photo, from pulling my gear out of my bag, putting it together, talking to people, drinking my margarita, having Erin project manage the crowd as to where to stand and when to throw the balls, then splitting up the crowd into blues & pinks.. then lastly a small countdown... and a quick "boom, boom, boom" (three frames (this was the middle frame)). Cheers.

[UPDATE] this photo was blogged on Yodel Anecdotal! :)
[UPDATE2] Stephen Garcia managed to get a photo of me taking this picture
[UPDATE3] Apparently there was a vide of this shot! :)

107/365. If you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy ~ Peta Wilson

This is Cindy, Erin, and Dottie... And Yes, this really happened. I was there. The funny thing was that I could barely tell what they were doing having stood so far away.... but when I reviewed the LCD screen, I knew it was a winner.

This shot was taken after a few bottles of sake near 3rd avenue and Geary. Those truly dorky enough to look at the setup, read and view on...

camera, setup, and strobist info: see here

Happy Birthweek Dottie!

87/365. Life is good

Today is Angela's birthday. She is shown here giving some love to her hubby Lindsey. Cheers.

strobist info: SB-900 @ 1/32 on 17mm bounce from 43" silver umbrella handheld by Erin. Back lighting provided by Temple SF (an interesting experience).

camera info: Nikon D700 | 50mm(ƒ/1.4G) | ƒ/1.4 | ISO 640 | 1/40s — handheld

Hope everyone is having a great weekend.

65/365.
Happy birthday, Seth

Tonight was Seth's 40th birthday. People jumped.

And yes, I haven't posted yesterday's photo. It's on a CF card at work. I'll have to post day 64 on Monday. Cheers.

strobist info: SB900 @ 1/8 — 45° camera left pointed straight up bouncing into ceiling with 1/4 CTO gel

camera info: Nikon D700 | 24-70mm(ƒ/2.8G)@24mm | ƒ/3.5 | ISO 1600 | 1/25s

Cindy offering a drink. But not really. I am too tired to write the rest of this description because I just got back from the party. cheers.

Photo by Michael Leggett. Photo shown here is "as is," straight out of the camera on Program Exposure (and I fine job it did) on vivid, high contrast. The timing and angle was all Michael. The goofball flying up the air, well, that was me.