Photo Breakdown #8 with Scott Diussa

Scott Diussa is a photographer, teacher, musician, and traveler.  He is a graduate of the Southeast Center for Photographic Studies at Daytona Beach College in Florida with a degree in Commercial Photography. His first position out of school was teaching photography at the Disney Institute at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. From there he joined Nikon and held five positions over twenty years all centered around photographic education for photographers. Scott has taught thousands of photographers in the areas of concert photography, video and audio, basic photography, and travel photography.

In this episode, Scott shares the story and inspiration behind a guitar product photo and the new techniques and tools he is trying.

• Find Scott at scottdiussa.com
• See the photo from this episode here.

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Scott Diussa: Hi, my name is Scott Diussa and this is the photo breakdown.

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: Photo

breakdown is a podcast where I talk with the photographer, sharing the story of a specific photograph technique or business when I’m your host, Scott Wyden Kivowitz and this is the photo breakdown. Let’s break it down. Welcome to the photo breakdown.

I’m sitting down with Scott to YUSA to talk about a really, really. Cool photo for multiple reasons. For those who have followed me for some time you know, that I was still am technically a musician, as well as the photographer and the photo we’re looking at today, we’ll be talking about today is in the music realm.

And so, and it’s also a very vibrant photo high contrast, beautifully lit. So we’re going to we’re going to dig into it, but before we do. Hello, Scott. Hi

Scott Diussa: Scott.

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: Oh boy. It’s not too often that we get to do that on a, on a podcast with, with, to Scott, Scott, Scott, but it’s great. Yeah. So I just, as a, as a related note, so I I’m part of this group of photo friends that pre pandemic we would get together once a year and travel somewhere and spend like a few days to a week photographing wherever we go.

And on that trip, there was three Scouts. And. One of them. So three, three people named Scott, including myself, and then one person not named Scott, but he’s actually Scottish. So there was three and a half Scott’s. So, and that was it also very, got very confusing when we were like sitting down for lunch or whatever.

And, you know, everybody turns around when your neighbors

Scott Diussa: called boy.

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: I bet. So, so let’s start with an icebreaker. Let’s see, I got a list I’m going to pick from. Let’s see if you could give advice to your 16 year old self, what would it

Scott Diussa: be? Practice your guitar more. Always. I think of that all the time.

Cause I started playing when I was 15 years old. I took guitar lessons for four years during high school. And although I, I really am happy. Yeah. Pretty much where I am with that now. I wish I had just really just dug in deeper, you know, and been one of those crazy, like eight hour a day kind of people.

I still, even though I can, I could play today and I’m happy and it’s fun, but I would tell my 16 year old self practice your guitar more. I’m going to leave any girl thing out of that, you know, but I’ll go with the guitar one. Awesome.

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: Awesome. I, you know, I always thought that learn piano better would be mine in the music topic for sure.

You know, just it’s one of those instruments that really You go to some of these house and they have a piano, you can just sit down. Not everybody has a it’s it’s not often that a guitar is sitting out when you go to a friend’s house. So my, my, my my brother-in-law just bought a house not too long ago.

And he inherited a piano that came with the house. They didn’t want to take it with him. Wow. And you know, you sit down and yeah. What should I play? Well, you know what? I can play piano, but I’m not good enough to just play something out of the tick, out of the hat, you know? So it’s one of those things, but anyway,

Scott Diussa: I know, I know what you mean, actually learning the piano would have been a good one to do when I was 16 as well, but that, wasn’t the cool, you know, the cool thing, you know, you had to wear your hair long and play guitar and be in a pan.

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: Yeah. So my next question is what are you proudest of?

Scott Diussa: What am I proudest of? Oh God, that’s a big, big question. But if I were to just put it simply what I’m most proudest of is the ability to actually teach people things. Whether it be, I used to teach guitar lessons. I teach photography now, as you know, for a living, I teach classes.

I teach a lot and I can. My mother was a teacher. My sister’s a teacher and it’s just sort of ingrained in me. And it’s not something that just anybody can do. I ever job that I ever had, the, my boss would always say, Hey, can you train so-and-so on how to do this? And you know, because they couldn’t and, and I could, and it just kind of found me.

I didn’t go, I, that was not my goal. In life to be a teacher, but you know what? I really enjoy it. And so I’m kind of proudest of the fact that I can stand in front of a group of people. I can be on a video. I could be on a podcast like this. I can be virtually on, on a video class. And I could just, I, I get the point across and I want to have fun with it.

So I think that awesome. Simple.

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: Yeah. Yeah. I love it. I love it. I, you know, it’s. Being able to, to teach someone new to photography, someone that has been in photography for trying to learn more. It’s definitely a nice feeling when, when you walk away, And you can see that the goal has been accomplished and they, even if it’s one little nugget that they walk away from, it’s a good feeling.

Scott Diussa: Oh, it’s, it’s the best when someone says, thank you. I learned so much, like when I would teach classes in person, you could see it on their faces. Now I teach to a camera lens. It’s shooting video and out virtually, but in the chat at the end of the program, when people are saying, thank you so much. That was wonderful.

I take that for real. I mean, People can say whatever they want to online these days and people say, thank you. That was great. So that makes me really very happy. It’s very rewarding and it’s kind of like an adrenaline rush afterwards and, and you know, it’s, it’s, that’s the best part of all. Yeah.

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: Before we dive in this episode is sponsored by my lead generation course for photographers called more leads more clients.

Yes. If you would like to increase the leads you’re generating on your photography site, you can use the strategies I teach in my course, access it@scottwiden.com slash Lee. Let’s break down the photo.

We are looking at a beautiful yellow guitar, a beautiful yellow guitar, and it’s on this pitch black background. Now this photo is on your. So, again, for everybody listening, please be sure to go to the show notes and we will be linking to this photo on Scott’s Instagram, so you can check it out.

What is beautiful about this as well is that you actually use the Instagram carousel feature. So please be sure you swipe or click over to the other photos in the carousel because Scott includes behind the scenes photos of exactly how we photograph this photo that we’re talking about. So first what is this that you photograph?

Okay.

Scott Diussa: So this guitar has got an interesting little story behind it. This was never one of my main guitars. When I was playing, I don’t have that many. I have like seven guitars. This has always been my my wife calls it, the ugliest guitar that I have, cause it’s actually fluorescent yellow and it’s a throwback to the eighties, like completely, which, which was my heyday for playing guitar.

So it’s a total shredder. It’s a, it’s a crazy. It’s a Kramer guitar, but it’s not the stock Kramer guitar. So any guitar players out there, email, oh, wow. He’s got a vintage Kramer from the eighties. Well, this one is fluorescent yellow and I never expected it to photograph this well, and I keep, I look at this picture and I’m like kind of mesmerized by the color.

It’s really close to the original, but you know, photography just doesn’t get that fluorescent part out of it. Yellow yellow, but it’s really 20 years ago. This was an ugly guitar. Now all of a sudden it’s like back in style. So the story, the quick story behind this is I was teaching guitar lessons at a music store in Waldwick New Jersey called SG music.

So, cause I know you’re from Jersey and if there’s any Jersey people here, you might know SG music. I was teaching guitar lessons there and I was with the owner of the store and this kid comes walking in and he’s got this guitar in his hand. Busted in half and he goes, oh man, the drop my brother’s guitar down the stairs and a busted the neck and half.

I need to buy him a new guitar. What do you have? And so this kid had the buyer’s brother, a new guitar that day. So I was looking at it and I’m thinking, you know what, just a few days earlier than that actually went to the Kramer factory and in Neptune, New Jersey, it was, and I bought some spare parts and I bought this Kramer American neck.

And I thought, oh, this neck is beautiful. I’m going to make a guitar out of this. So I said, Hmm, let me see. We took the neck off the bus, that neck off. And I said, I’m going to see if this thing fits. And I said, Hey, listen, I’ll buy the guitar for parts from you. How much you want for me. I don’t know how about like 60 bucks?

And I said, you got it. So I gave him 60, 60 bucks and I went home, the neck fit beautifully. And it actually, I mean, it plays incredible. It’s still a little screwed up on the electronics part and, and everything, but it plays great. And I love this guitar. And at one time I actually tried to sell this thing.

Back in, I don’t know, the early two thousands, when this was the ugliest guitar in the world, I tried to sell it at a garage sale for 60 bucks and no one wanted it. And and I am so happy that no one wanted it because I just kept it. It was stayed in a case forever. And now I live in Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee area now.

And I have my, my studio room, which if you float through my Instagram, you’ll see it. And I hang it up on my wall. It’s wall decoration, basically. So recently. Started getting a little creative with photography and I shot a lot of my guitars, but this was the last one I did. And it actually turned out to be my favorite.

It just photographs really well.

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: Yeah. So in the, behind the scenes photos, it looks more fluorescent than it does in the final photo.

Scott Diussa: Kinda,

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: I guess it’s just the magic of lighting. It, it, you know, it has, it brought down the fluorescent aspect

Scott Diussa: of it. It does, you know, it’s kind of weird, fluorescent colors are really hard to get right in photography.

But yeah, actually I guess my iPhone behind the scenes photos, I guess I-phones no fluorescent colors better than a Sony, so who knows, but yeah, but it’s still, it’s still made a really cool image in a very small space.

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: Yeah. So, so let’s talk about the lighting aspect. Well, first of all, before we do that before we dive into the lighting, the, so the, the, the, the guitar is actually up on a slant now in the, behind the scenes photo, you can actually see how you did it.

But so did you. Light it a certain way. So that the feet from the stand are just too dark to notice. Or did you Photoshop that?

Scott Diussa: Actually I, well, one, I didn’t touch this with Photoshop at all. I only processed it a little bit in Lightroom. I’m not a huge Photoshop person. I, I know enough to make me stupid and Photoshop, but light room, light room.

Okay. So I might use a little bit of like, A little bit of a brush and just take the exposure down. But yeah, this stand that I have, doesn’t have a back to it. So I was able to lay the guitar down on its side and I actually propped it up on the feet of the stance. So they would fall into shadow more.

And because I cause either that, or I had to recreate part of the guitar. So it was, it was. Gently on there. I’ve walked really slowly in my room because this thing would’ve fallen off in a heartbeat. Yeah. You know, you can

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: tell, you can tell now if you look at the behind the scenes photo, you can see that it’s, it’s like just on the edge, whereas where instead of where, how you were normally fit, sit a guitar in there, like, you know, straddled.

Scott Diussa: It is absolutely. But the best part was, is what I was doing. And I’ll talk about the lighting in a second, I was moving the lights. So one, the guitar would look good, but to the stand went almost completely into shadow. And that all I did was just kind of, do a little bit of a vignette around it too, to take out any of the extra that you might see a little hint of where the stand is and just black it out.

And, and I was really surprised at that, that I could actually really get it like almost perfect black. I mean, I, there’s probably a bunch more touch-ups I could do this picture, but this was done. Processed in and up on Instagram within minutes, I don’t labor over images and I just like to get it right in the camera.

That’s it?

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: This is something that I could see in a, in a Matt, you know, a catalog for, for looking for a guitar really. It sells

Scott Diussa: the guitar. It does. It does in a sense. And I posted this on a, on a Kramer fan page on Facebook and, oh, it got hundreds and hundreds of likes and questions and stuff. And somebody was asking me, how did you shoot that?

So I hope that person that asked me that is listening to this because actually wrote them back a pretty detailed description of how I did it. But it’s, it wasn’t any sort of Photoshop magic. This is just. This is like 95% of the exact image when I shot it. And then I just did a couple touch-ups and process that to give it a little pop

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: it’s that’s, that’s the way to do it.

And, and that’s where as we, as we transitioned into the lighting discussion, this is exactly where lighting comes in handy because you get the lighting. You’ve got to do a lot less afterwards.

Scott Diussa: Absolutely.

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: Absolutely. And it’s more fun in my opinion, getting the lighting right. Is way more fun than, than, than you know, her killing herself in Photoshop.

Scott Diussa: Well, the creative process on this. So like I, one day I just, okay, so, well, let me back up here. I’ll start talking about how, like what I was using and stuff. The lighting is something it’s not flashy. It’s not. It’s not strobes or anything like that. The lighting is actually led lighting and I got this thing called specular and it’s by a company called spiffy gear.

And it’s actually sort of meant for the video industry, but I’m like, you know, My subject’s not moving. I could shoot whatever exposure I want. And it was like, yeah, I know it was like a 60th of a second. You know, it really wasn’t that low. But so I got these specular lights from spiffy gear. If you guys want to look that up, but they’re basically what they are, is like a led.

Bars and you could put them together in certain ways, and then you can connect them together to make like a three light setup, which is actually what I did with this. So I had this lighting system and I’m like, you know what, I need to be creative today. And, and I’m like, okay. So I photograph my bass guitar first and I did a real kind of closeup.

And you’ll, if you look through my Instagram, you’ll see all these pictures. And then I photograph my blue Sharpeville guitar and then I’m like, okay, this is looking really cool. And then I photograph my. My natural wood carving guitar. And then I picked out this yellow Kramer, and this is the one that made me excited.

I’m like, okay, now I’m now I’m getting there. So it took like four guitars in for the creativity to happen. And yeah. And I’m like, okay, I’m starting to perfect the process. See the lighting, get the composition. Right. And it was, it was exciting because you could just move these lights. And I’m watching.

What I was doing is I was tethered to the computer and I was watching on my monitor in my studio here. And I say, studios is my office music room. Photography. Everything is just a room in my house. And so I’m walking, looking at the live view from the camera on my monitor. I was using a program called smart shooter.

And I was tethered like with a, you know, an orange tethered tools cables. Yeah. Straight into it. So I’m, I’m looking at the live view and I was able to actually move the lights because if you look at the guitar, as I’m talking to you about it right now, there’s some highlights on the back of it.

The back of the guitar is lit and underneath the neck of the guitar is lit and I was able to compose and move the lights. So the reflection of the lights. Just where I wanted it to be, because the first couple of images I’m like, Ooh, that’s a big hotspot there. And oh, that’s not really good there. Ooh. I can see the stand there.

So I started moving the lights around and with live view on, I could just see exactly what they’re going to look like before I take the picture. And so instead of using strobes and having to shoot the picture, move the light, shoot the picture, move the light. I was actually doing everything in real time, live tethered to my computer with live view on.

So it made the process really easy. Which is

really cool.

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: Yeah, that’s a, that’s the beauty of the tether tools system too, is just good quality long cables that can go where you need them. And just, just having a nice tethering situation, whether you’re going into Lightroom or whatever software, it’s just a really nice thing.

I do. I do it whenever, whenever I need to. I do it. But. Those, those cables come in real handy for a variety of things. Yeah. And, and the, the, the, the specular lights from spiffy the fact that they’re short, narrow led lights, I think is perfect for. The product, the objects that you’re photographing, whether it’s guitar do you have, you’ve got violin in your, in your, on your Instagram.

Those are perfect because they’re not too big. They’re not these giant light sources. You need to worry about, you know, flagging or whatever. They’re, they’re very specific of, of where the light

Scott Diussa: goes. The best part is, is you can actually add them together. So they make a larger light source, or you can stretch them out.

I had like two end to end in front of the guitar. I had a couple end-to-end underneath the back. If you look in the, behind the scenes and the third picture behind it, like it was, this was sitting on like a Pelican case with a black piece of plastic over it. And I put them on the ground pointing up.

So that’s the light that’s actually highlighting the underneath side of the neck and the headstock. And then in, in like right next to the camera, I had one bar lighting, the, the. The basically the side of the guitar where the strap goes. And because if I take that out, that would have fallen into shadow.

So I had a three light set up. I had the front of the guitar, the side of the guitar and underneath the guitar for the neck. And that’s where it all came together. I’m like, oh, now you can see it. And the background is just one of those. Pop-up a Westcott, you know, You know, simple backdrops for like headshots and stuff.

I think they

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: call them the X yes. Backdrops or something. Yeah.

Scott Diussa: Yeah. The extra, extra, extra. Yeah, I have, I have one of those. So that was just sitting in the background. So if you look in the, behind the scenes picture, you can see that backdrop. And I mean, it was bright in the room, but those specular lights were really bright.

So I was able to tailor the exposure. To just the guitar itself and not have anything else really show up. So the backdrop actually did go black in the picture.

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: Interesting. So you, so you leave the room light on, you don’t turn it off and just,

Scott Diussa: I turned it off, but it didn’t make much of a difference.

Cause I got two bright windows in this room and daylight was just pouring in. So it wasn’t like I was shooting. Right. So I just use the specular light. The power of those lights are actually, those led lights are really, really powerful and they’re very much flicker free, which is awesome. So that you don’t get like, bands in your images from LEDs.

Like a lot of them do. And you also don’t get exposure differences between pictures. Cause that’s going to lead me to my next point in this whole thing, you can’t get this image the way I shot it in one single. Okay. Interesting. Because even at, even if I stopped the lens down, this was with a Sony, a seven R four and a 24 to 1 0 5 lens.

Okay. And I was back all the way at 1 0 5 for this to cut the amount of back ground down to just the guitar. So I didn’t have any spillover. And also it didn’t have enough depth of field at like F 22 to be able to get the whole guitar and focus. So what I was doing is in the. But once you get to focus stack, I did.

So, so what I did was I actually brought the expo exposure back down. I don’t know, it was probably a 5.6 or something like that. So I had a decent shutter speed just in case something move, which nothing was moving. So, what I did was I focused on that strap button on the end of the guitar. And then I used the Smartsheet or for software to actually do a script called focus stacking.

So it actually shot, I believe. I remember I wrote a 27. Mm. This one took, so I, and it was in a medium, like medium distance from near to far. And that’s the way smart shooter works. It works in like small, medium and large increments. This one was perfect for like the medium increment. And so I focused on the button on the guitar and then I just ran the script and it just started shooting pictures and moving the focus point all the way down the neck of the guitar.

Now I had a separate, like 40, mm. But I didn’t need that many because in Smartsheet I use what’s called a quick loop and I, I put the little quick loop down on the tip. Of the headstock of the guitar. And I said, once that’s in focus and starts to go out of focus because it went past there, I shut it down because I don’t want anything else in focus is especially if it started to focus on the backdrop itself, you might see some texture.

So I stopped the focus script after I saw the tip of the headstock or the guitar go in and out of focus in smart shooter. And I stopped the script. Right. So that that happened when I hit 27 images. Now here’s where the magic part comes in. Smart shooter. Doesn’t comply. The stack, just like cameras. These days that have a focus, stacking ability only shoot the images.

They don’t compile it. So you need a piece of software to do that. I’ve done it in both Photoshop and a program called Helicon focus. Photoshop is one, not very good at it. And it’s a real pain in the neck to do Heela con focus does this thing automatically. So get this. So here’s where I get kind of techie, geeky.

If you don’t mind. So smart shooter was shooting the focus stack into a folder called a watch folder. Heela Khan focus is watching the watch folder and it’s programmed to take the newest set of images. And put them together, stack them together and give you one sharp picture. Now, how does it know to do this?

It actually has a setting in there. So it’s watching this folder and it weights. It sees new images coming in when it stops. It waits an amount of time. I haven’t set to like 15 seconds. So after 15 seconds, it doesn’t see any more images coming in. Then it picks the last set of images that just came in, stacks them together and spits out a picture for you.

And you get everything in. It’s just, it’s the coolest workflow neural. So I didn’t have to manually go into Hilo, can focus, select all the images focus stack I had to set up to do this watch folder and smart shooter. Run the script, let it go. Watch it all. Stop it. When I needed to heal the can focus, picks it up, stacks them all together, spits out an image.

I bring it into Lightroom. Do a couple of touch ups.

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: That’s fantastic. That definitely makes the workflow way simpler than what it

Scott Diussa: could have been. Yeah. You know, when I started getting into this and I’m like, oh, this, this was too easy on one guitar. So I got to shoot another one. Now you shoot another one.

Now I’m going to do my violin. And not that I can play the violin, but I have one and I want to shoot the violin. And I shot my acoustic guitar, which I didn’t post. And I just started shooting like everything because one, it was set up and two, it was working so great. I didn’t want to waste the opportunity.

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: Regarding the violin. So we were talking before we start recording that we have a lot in common. I also own the violin and do not know how to play

Scott Diussa: it. Friend of mine gave it to me after a trip to Ireland. When I said, I want to learn how to do that. And I started trying to do some video lessons and it sounds like cat’s screaming.

So I just it’s wall decoration at the moment, but I hate, I live in Nashville now. I think there might be a fiddle teacher.

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: Probably, probably, yeah, mine. Unfortunately mine came from an uncle who passed it was in his house when we were cleaning it up. And it turns out that it was a pre-World war II violin it’s super busted up.

I even tried getting it really strong and, and it, yeah, so, but I’m not using it. It’s in the case. It’s. No.

Scott Diussa: I say, just photograph it.

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: Yeah. Yeah. I would, if I was, if I was going to do that, I’d want to clean it up a little bit, but I dunno. I just,

Scott Diussa: yeah, just speaking to that. Oh my gosh. I had no idea how dirty all my stuff was until I started shooting.

Oh man. Now I gotta go find cleaning solution and a rag and everything is circling, but they all my instruments needed to be cleaned anyway. But man, I tell you, focus, stacking shows everything.

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: I mean, you’re talking a shiny surface. You didn’t have fingerprints. You’re going to have pic scratches

Scott Diussa: all over it.

Oh goodness. Yeah. There’s a couple small, little tiny dings on this yellow guitar that bothered me and I touched one or two of them. Yeah. Just so it wasn’t a distraction. But yeah, so it was, it was really cool, but it was it was just a creative fun day to do that. And I ended up with some cool stuff on Instagram and which led me here and now I’m like, oh, so it was worth it.

The day was worth it, you know, just tell people about it and, and it’s cool. So if people check it out, you know, that’d be great.

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: And, and now you have a process down to photograph guitars. So when, when you know, fender and Gibson come calling you, you’ve got a, you’ve got a process, mate.

Scott Diussa: Actually, there’s a G there is a guitar player here in Nashville who plays with the

And a couple of months ago he was like, dude, I really need, I’ve got this really great guitar that I need some pictures of, and I’ll call you next week, but we never really hooked up. But at the time I didn’t have this process down and I’m like, okay, well, let’s talk about it now. I’m thinking, well, you know what, maybe I got something new, a new way to.

Whatever this guitar looks like, that he needs pictures of. And I’m like excited to to, to, I almost want to contact every musician in Nashville that I know and say, give me your most interesting instrument for a day. If you trust me. And I just want to start documenting it. It’s it’s, it’s just, you know, there’s a wealth of that stuff around here and yeah.

And you know, why not? I mean,

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: I’m like a fun project. Yeah. You’re a real fun

Scott Diussa: project. There’s nothing special about the instruments I own. They’re not classic. They’re not vintage. They just happened to be in style again, you know, it’s like back in the eighties, I was the master of like the $500 guitar. You know, you go to Sam, Ash music, you Piyush blue Sharvette and you’re all set.

500 bucks, you know, I’m

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: I’m I’m, I’m giving you a title for this project. You should call it a treasured axes.

Scott Diussa: Ooh. All right, there you go. You get total credit for that one, Scott.

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: Thanks. Well, Scott, thank you so much for breaking down this photo with me. I’ve got one more question for you or two more, but the first one, what should I have asked you?

But didn’t,

Scott Diussa: Catching you off guard. Yeah. What should I have asked you? But didn’t you pretty much asked me some really interesting stuff. Maybe what else do I like to photograph besides guitars and things like that.

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: Alright. What else

Scott Diussa: do you like to photograph? My favorite stuff to photograph is live music.

And I’ve been a concert photographer for many, many years. And I used to teach along with a great concert photographer, Alan Hess on the west coast. I used to teach a concert photography workshops at Photoshop world each year. And I I’m hopefully going to be shooting pictures of Myles Kennedy soon.

He’s coming into Nashville. And and I work with a bunch of different bands. So that’s my, that’s my favorite thing to do. My second favorite thing to do is travel photography. I, my previous job, I used to travel all over the world, so I really, I have the travel bug and I loved doing that. And then my third favorite thing is aviation photography actually.

I love, I love air shows. I used to do a lot of air shows, a and M. I’m a part of what’s called ISAT, which is the international society of aviation photographers. The there’s a group of people that just know so much about airplanes so much more than I ever would, but airplanes were like my favorite thing when I was a kid.

So just send me to an air show and I’m a happy person. So kind of a little roundabout thing there

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: you need to do is travel to some location. That’s having an air show and along the way, photograph a band. Live in the same location and then you’ve got it. You’ve got it made.

Scott Diussa: Absolutely.

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: So where can our listeners connect with you online?

Scott Diussa: Well, I’m on Instagram. It’s my first initial and last name. I’m probably gonna do something different soon, but it’s SDIUSSA. So at SDU Suh on Instagram, that’s where I kind of post most of my stuff. Scott, do you see DIU SSA photography on Facebook? You can ping me there. If you friend me on Facebook on my personal side, if I don’t know you, I’m probably gonna let you go.

Cause I just, you know, it’s too much to handle it and I, you know, but I’d rather, if I’m going to talk photography, I want to be, you know, through my photography page or through Instagram. And if you go to Scott to use a.com, that’s my website, which I try to keep fairly updated with some of my stuff.

And. But not as much as like the Instagram, Instagram seems to be doing really well. So I post most of my rock and roll and stuff. Pictures there. The Scott’s use of photography on Facebook is more of anything photography related. Instagram’s a little bit more music.

Scott Wyden Kivowitz: Awesome. Yeah. Well, thank you for listening to the photo breakdown for the show notes and to see the photo that we shared today and talked about today visit photobreakdown.com.