Dustin Diaz Photography

255/365. This is 1994 — remember?

Dunno what happened to yesterday, but we're back on track today.

Tonight Erin and I did a shoot for San Francisco Magazine. Had a couple good ones... but none that I could technically post here since I'm sending those to the editor.

I picked this one out since it was outside the context of what they were looking for.

Many folks were dressed up in their best 90's outfits, including this woman. They even passed out slap-on wrist bracelets, how awesome is that? You know you remember those too.

Anyhow, I wasn't able to snap a setup shot. I suppose I could have if I tried a little harder... but somehow I think since it was a paid gig, "getting the setup shot" sorta went out the door. In the meantime, this louzy text will have to suffice...

strobist info: SB-900 @ 1/4 @ 17mm w/ 1/2 CTO into 43" white umbrella tucked up high in a corner.

144/365. Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire ~ George Bernard Shaw
(express yourself)

Today was the San Francisco Mission Carnaval. Tens of thousands of people along with a mass slew of photographers were out today which makes it difficult to get any shot. It was unclear whether you needed a press pass to get into the middle of the street — cops were everywhere watching the sidelines... but there appeared to be an unwritten rule that if you had a big enough camera, you could waltz right in (no pun intended).

Anyhow, this is the Energia do Samba dance group with a friend of ours shown center of attention. They were all awesome.

Be sure to check out Erin's photo stream later this afternoon for more photos from the parade.

strobist: n/a

camera info: Nikon D3 | 85mm(ƒ/1.4D) | ƒ/1.4 | ISO 200 | 1/5000s — full manual

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! :)

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.

75/365. No really, you tell *me* what's going on.

Seriously, if you can explain what's going on in this picture, props to you. This was one of those spur of the moment / get up on a chair / point the camera at the people kind of shot. It was also the first time I had mounted my flash to my camera in quite a while, and it kinda felt good to be a little lazy. Braden (the man pictured front and left) helped me as a light assistant for the day. He's totally awesome.

strobist info: Nikon SB-900 on good 'ol classic bounce pointing straight up mounted go camera (sorry, no off camera fun-ness today) @ 1/2 power with CTO gel.

... and when one says "bokeh me up!" — you do it!
Happy Weekend everyone.

73/365.
Kiss me, fool
It's that kind of a week here in Austin at the SxSW conference. Thanks to Hugh Forrest I managed to get my press pass again. (Thanks a ton Hugh!). The next dozen or so photos are just a brief experience of the first day. So be sure to check out that set as well as more to come.

And for those counting, there is a day missing in my 365 which is on my memory other memory card, so I'll get to that later.

strobist info: SB-900 @ 1/16 on a portable human lightstand (Erin) attached to a 43" reflective umbrella — camera left.