Dustin Diaz Photography

140/365. Girl phoned me the other day and said "Come on over, there's nobody home." I went over. Nobody was home ~ Rodney Dangerfield

So I have rented another Nikon D3, this time from Borrow Lenses. Damn are they so much cheaper! And they deliver for free :) This shot was taken up near Guererro in a nice little neighborhood of houses. I was fond of the "no wind" factor, and of course, this fence. I tricked out my radio remote by placing my iPhone in front of it.... making it look like a phone that can call the moon.

Other than that, I've been getting quite a few questions on "how do you do this every day?" — I thought about this, and the answer is simple.

If you're passionate about something enough, you will do it. Consider a cross-country runner (athlete) who trains daily. For anyone to be decently competitive, they must train at least two (or more) hours a day. Including warmup, an eight mile run, cooldown, stretching, and lifting weights.

These same principles apply to what I'm doing now, except I'm not running, I'm going out, setting up lights, taking a photo, tearing down, post-processing, documenting (via strobist info), and describing this right now.

Which brings us to the final point, you strobistas can read on...

setup, camera, and strobist info: see here

BACKSTORY: This is after an evening of fooling around with a wireless radio transmitter remote control for the Nikon that aparently can submit a sigal up to 100 meters. This is a lie. This was about as far as I could get and I'm only about 25 meters away. This was shot in our parking garage under poor lighting using my 200-400mm lens on a tripod. Anyhow, it's a good thing my camera has an interval timer which can essentially replace this stupid remote.

Testing the distance on the remote in daylight.

Things just sitting on my desk