Dustin Diaz Photography

112/365. This is Twitter

And so this concludes the announcement.

camera, setup, and strobist info: see here

105/365. Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle? ~ Flann O'Brien

This bicycle belongs to a friend of mine named Trent. He traveled down from Vancouver (by plane) with his bicycle because, yes, he is totally that hardcore.

This shot was taken near 21st & Mission, just underneath the big "Mission" sign.

Happy Wednesday Everyone. Nerdy folk read on:

strobist info: see here

{update} this photo has been featured on the Flickr Blog! Woot.

91/365. Life of a Mission Hipster

It's fun to make fun of ones own self every once in a while. And although I don't think I epitomize the true nature of being a Mission Hipster, it's fun trying :)

This shot was taken near 24th & Valencia, in the middle of the road (suicide lane as some call it). Read the rest of the hoopla for the technically curious.

strobist info: SB-900 @ 1/16 on 85mm about 25' away (on the curb) direct subject left.

camera info: Nikon D700 | 200mm(ƒ/2.0G) | ƒ/2.0 | ISO 800 | 1/30s — VR Normal enabled (tripod detection) on 3' tripod, roughly 40' away from subject using spot focus (center of the frame). triggered via interval time shooting.

Happy Bokeh Wednesday everyone!

Oh, and be sure to check out the mission hipster outtakes photo. It's sure to be a good laugh.

77/365. God I can't wait for pancakes.

Random photo from the IHOP pool. This photo qualifies for today even though it feels like yesterday since it was taken quite a bit time after midnight.

strobist info: SB-900 & SB-600 both @ 1/4 on both sides of the ceiling. created sufficient light for the whole back room. triggered via PWii's.

70/365.
Domo <3 Nikon

Today I had the opportunity of teaching photography to Junior High School students for a Volunteer after-school program. It was actually quite fun and I was rather amazed on how much information can be stored in a 12 year old brain considering how much I went off with all the math. I'd love to post some of those photos but I'm sure I'd need some sort of parent consent form hoopla. So I shot this one when I got home.

Be sure to check out the detailed strobist info in the previous photo.

Happy Bokeh Wednesday!

56/365. For Frodo! ~ Aragorn (LOTR)

I didn't think I would think this so early, but... I love my SB-900. Having owned an SB-600 for so long, I didn't think there was anything more than I would love from the 900 except more power, and larger zoom range on the head. Oh no no. Just the UI itself was fun to play with. Despite my interest in learning the math behind flash exposure... I don't "actually" like thinking about when I'm taking pictures. And yet at the same time, I don't want full TTL either.
Enter the SB-900 with it's cool ability for you to just plugin numbers, and let it do its thing. Tell it what aperture you want at what ISO for a given distance — it recommends a power setting :) — Not to mention, you can also set it to "distance priority" where my camera sends it my exposure information, and the flash makes up the exposure based on how far away your subject is (LOVE).

If all that was jibberish to you.... here it is in simple terms (by the way, this counts as my strobist info).

I walked up to that tree on the left, set my flash on a stand behind it, and pointed it over at that other tree on the right. I set the zoom head to 24mm (even though I had a 50mm prime on my camera), then thought to myself "Hey, It's Bokeh Wednesday!" — So I told the flash I wanted to make an exposure at f/1.4. I also made a "guestimate" that the tree was ~about~ 10 feet away.... so I twisted the power setting dial until I saw a reading of 10 feet.
I walked away, kneeled down, and took this shot. It was like magic :)

Yes, I know, not the most exciting photo in the world, but I was quite happy with how well lit such an ordinary scene was.

And now that I'm done boring you, Happy Bokeh Wednesday!

49/365. Is this just like the young boy dreaming in the olden days ~ Less Than Jake {A good time for change}

Well, I started a photography blog as you may have anecdotally saw yesterday that I hinted at. I whipped it up on the bus ride to and from work and wrote a welcoming post. We'll see how things work out. Hopefully I'll get a chance to discuss some of things I mentioned in yesterday's photo.

Oh, and Happy Bokeh Wednesday everyone!

42/365. I'm never going back again. ~ Less Than Jake

Just staying on the heals of Dave's raindrops, had another fantastic night watching the strobist DVD, but you know what Wednesday is for ;) You guessed it. Happy Bokeh Wednesday. Again, extremely apologize for not catching everyones streams. I'll do a major catchup this weekend. Ciao

35/365. Grab a brew. Don't cost nothin'. ~ Bluto (Animal House)

This is my beer, that I drank. Yes, I drank it... but it was for artistic purposes only! Not because I enjoyed it!

Today Dave walked me around a side of Google I never been to with a pond, cool trails, and lots of leaves (as if it were still fall!). The next two photos before this one are from that same walk. It was a nice break from staring at code all day — I must say Greasemonkey, Firebug, GMonkey, and Gmail do not play well together!

ANYWAY, Happy Bokeh Wednesday Everyone! See you tomorrow.

84/365. We unleashed a lion ~ Jeremy (Pearl Jam)

Super tired. But on the news front, the 200mm ƒ/2 shows up next Monday :) Cheers.