J.W. Ramp Photography » Pittsburgh

Sure has been awhile.

jwramp — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:16:31 +0000

Well, it’s been a long while since I’ve updated here – figured I should put a couple recent works up. Then try to do it again in a couple days. Then maybe again after that. You get the picture.

So here’s some light-painting, concert-going, long-distance shooting, and portrait-taking goodness from around Pittsburgh this past month.

Strobist Assignment – What Moves Me

jwramp — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:19:03 +0000

A while back I decided to try out one of Strobist‘s photo assignments, and made a picture of my new car, an ’03 VW Passat W8. I’ve been really enjoying driving it and went up to Mount Washington with @jdebner to shoot the car.

We used one of my Alienbee B800s connected to a Vagabond II (power source) on a lightstand into a large softbox and Josh ran around the car strobing all over the place. Then I stacked up all the photos in Photoshop and painted in the parts of layers to get highlights to show up on the car. I think it turned our pretty nice for just using one light.

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.

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:

Shopping at Goodwill.

jwramp — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:26:58 +0000

I hooked up with some friends down at Southside Works this weekend and we ducked into the Goodwill to see if we could find any treasures…

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.

Jubilee Benefit Dinner & Dance

jwramp — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 05:27:34 +0000

I worked at and photographed a benefit event for the Jubilee Conference coming up here in Pittsburgh last week. Here’s a couple photos from the evening:

March for Life 2009

jwramp — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:19:09 +0000

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Photoshoot with Sara.

jwramp — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:34:38 +0000

Sara just found me on Google and we were able to set up a photoshoot yesterday. We used my studio lights up in the attic at the Wightman house and got some really great images.

Just tried out some of the Nik Color Efex Pro filters in their Aperture plugins – this is one of the cross-processing filters.