Dustin Diaz Photography

This is Whitney and Jamie at the Palace of Fine Arts in SF. We casted them (among a few others to come) to have new material for the upcoming Strobist Info book. They were awesome!

Speaking of the book, y'all have been extremely patient. I've finally received word from Peachpit Publishing and they're excited about it. In related news, did you know David Hobby owns the "strobist" name? Thus my tentative title "Strobist Info" may become "Strobist® Info" ....

David, if you're reading this, name your favorite whiskey and I'll send a bottle your way if you lend borrowing rights to name :)

strobist info: (withheld)

Took a brief trip to Tahoe this last weekend for Thanksgiving. Stuck the camera out the window for a moment while driving over El Dorado Hills just past Sacramento.

Straight out tha camera.

353/365. Free Mickey — and let him fly

Everyone, this is George, Sherry, and...well... Mickey.

George and Sherry are recently engaged, and they thought they should bring their best pal Mickey to Aquatic Park with them.

In other news. 12 days left!

strobist info:
SB-900 @ 1/1/ @ 35mm into 43" reflective camera right
SB-900 @ 1/1 @ 35mm into 43" white shoot-thru camera left.

camera info: Nikon D3 | 14-24mm(ƒ/2.8G)@14mm | ƒ/8.0 | ISO 320 | 1/250s — via pocket wizard ii's

318/365. The convenient truth — it's just a few train stops away

This shot was pretty fun. Immediately after shooting it, it reminded me of An Inconvenient Truth, however the convenient truth is that as a photographer, I feel extremely blessed to live in a city like San Francisco where it takes 10 minutes of public transportation to get to views like this, even if it takes a dragon claw lookin' speedlight setup to light up the subject.

On another note, I want to encourage everyone again that if you've been enjoying this crazy 365 along with each setup with bizarre strobist info, then vote for me for Flickr's Photographer of the Year in the 3rd annual Mashable Open Web Awards.

And of course, without further reading...

setup, camera, strobist info: see here

312/365. And then the aliens showed up — experience the abduction

There I was minding my own business strolling around in my cart, and then all the sudden, wouldn't you know it. Aliens!!?

I know, right!?!!

Anyhow, it was a lazy Sunday, as all Sundays should be.

On the book front, I may end up going with Peach Pit Press. I am, nevertheless, still putting together a decent TOC that makes enough sense. My hope is to bring in some old content and introduce some new unseen content exclusively for the book.

And of course, for the here and now — here's the stuff you're looking for.

setup, camera, strobist info: see here

302/365. Resting. In Peace. — Come relax

So you thought I had left. Wrong. I was just resting. And awaiting that big, beatiful, Mama. Yep. 50 inches of big, gimassive light.

Yeah. It arrived this afternoon.

Yeah.

I was able to rush out to the Bay by 6:30 and managed to put together this shot in roughly 5 minutes before all hope was lost and my pink sky vanished.

Anyhow, be sure to check out the info on this shot - it makes me laugh everytime I look at it because the softbox is bigger than me!

setup, camera, strobist info: see here

80/365. Queen of Apocalypse

Today we (Erin and Dave and myself) went on a day trip for Dim sum, then to the Santa Cruz mountains for wine tasting, a brief stop for coffee and tea, then lastly the beach for a mini photoshoot. In the end, it was quite an awesome day.

This photo is a combination of vivid Nikon colors and a vibrant flash. Extra contrast was added in post-production.

strobist info: see here

camera info: Nikon D700 | 14-24mm(ƒ/2.8G)@14mm | ƒ/3.5 | ISO 400 | 1/50s

67/365.
We're off to see the wizard... the wonderful wizard of Oz

Today was a good lazy relaxing Sunday. We had brunch at Foreign Cinema then watched cartoons and took pictures the rest of the day. Yeah. Pretty good day.

strobist info: Nikon SB-900 thru Westcott 28" softbox @ 1/1 to camera left angled slightly down about 5' from subject

camera info: Nikon D700 | 14-24mm(ƒ/2.8G)@15mm | ƒ/9.0 | ISO 200 | 1/250s

model: Erin

59/365. White Russian, no ice, no vodka... hold the Kahlua. ~ Catwoman

It was nearing evening as we rushed home from Pauline's Pizza to catch the last of the sky. We missed most of it, but the D700 was able to pull most of it back out at ISO 1,600. This was shot on top of our roof again, this time with a little bit different of an outfit... but made a reintroduction to those damn sweet boots. Be sure to have a look see at the other three photos from the same shoot (previous to this one).

strobist info: SB-900 @ 1/16 near 12' high into 45" umbrella at 80°. SB-600 @ 1/32 45° camera left thru DIY grid spot

camera info: Nikon D700 | 24-70mm(ƒ/2.8G)@24mm | ƒ/2.8 | ISO 1,600 | 1/10s

76/365. Austin.

Taken on the final day of SxSW just on my own to the closing party. Thanks for a good time everyone. It was great to see everyone at the IHOP as well :) Cheers.