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It’s Sunny in Pittsburgh!

jwramp — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:40:06 +0000

Been shooting quite a bit lately, and brought one of my flashes outside the past couple days when the sun came out. Here’s a couple photos of friends and skateboarders.

Recent Portraits.

jwramp — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:10:28 +0000

Here’s some recent portraits I’ve done for the Sports section of The Tartan:

Athlete Profile

jwramp — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:06:07 +0000

I’ve been doing some new things with the athlete profiles for our weekly newspaper here on campus… here’s the shot we ended up using this week:

Playing with new gear.

jwramp — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:39:02 +0000

Steelers win, Pittsburgh riots.

jwramp — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:06:53 +0000

I went out right after the Super Bowl game to photograph the anticipated riots here in the Oakland area of Pittsburgh. It was mostly Pitt students, with a mix of CMU’ers and even some random adults from the area. I was super-impressed by how well the cops handled the crowds – sure there were torn down signs, leveled busstops, broken library windows and bonfires in the streets, but I still haven’t heard of any major personal injuries.

Click on through for more photos from the riots on my Flickr account.

EOC Cover Photo

jwramp — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:01:15 +0000

I shot the cover of our annual EOC issue insert for The Tartan – had one of our staffer’s friends come in and model for us. Here’s a setup shot and the before and after of the post-processing of the image we chose: