Dustin Diaz Photography

241/365. Love at first sight — see for yourself

It's shots like these where everything clicks. This includes Erin, the BART station, the D3, the 85mm, and a few margaritas... and of course being in lurve.

155/365. This is Sparta ~ 300
(be inspired)

So yes, it finally happened. And this one is mine. I requested to use my wife's 5D2 one last time (for a while at least I hope). There was a small rough patch seeing as how there were no uploads the last two days. Sorry. It drives me crazy missing days as well — especially when you live and breath this stuff. The only thing I'm waiting on now is for the return of stubby and can probably bet your arse that I'll be watching my tripods a bit closer from now on.

Happy continued no-strobist info vacation :)

Yes, of course it flies — as if you needed to know.

strobist and camera info: see here.

58/365. You're sexy ~ Stewie Griffin (Family Guy)

Today was Photo Friday. We had a laugh today at ptg's photo on making fun of my style, lighting techniques, quotes, and general photography demeanor. It was humorous at best.

But on a more important note, this is Ed Ho with his medium format Pentacon Six TL. It had no light meter so he used his compact to guide him. Point being, old film cameras are cool and fun.

strobist info: Nikon SB-900 @ 1/16 with 70mm head. 5' from subject about 80° from camera left. Had an assistant hold it (no light stand).

camera info: Nikon D700 | 50mm(ƒ/1.4G) | ƒ/9 | ISO 200 | 1/50s

11/365. By now, think I've found, Things changed just don't look that way to me. Or it just looks that way to me. ~ Less Than Jake.

Today Erin and I went for another small photowalk to pass time on our Sunday afternoon. I posted this one as my official photo for the day because a good SP with self-reflection is always good every once in a while.

For this particular shot I used my in-camera double-exposure feature of the D700, then the usual post-process in LR (and of course the border and watermark in PS). I would encourage you to check out the rest of the set if you have another minute. And definitely check out Erin's set (much better than mine) (do it! NOW!)

Hope everyone had a great weekend. And like always, see you tomorrow.

Erin's Christmas gift taken with my Christmas gift (a nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 :)

This is Erin's Canon XTi she's selling (along with other various photography gear). I had a lot of fun shooting it in the living room with my hacked up studio (speed light (bounce) with white sheets). The photos turned out quite well.