Archive for February, 2008
Back to the Future (Tennis Edition)
I’ve been trying to get practice with sports I haven’t shot in a while, so today I went out to shoot tennis. The last time I shot tennis was at the NCAA Championship in May of 2007 (here and here). I think I did better than back then, which I’d hope because I’m much more [...]
Gatorbait (Florida vs. Georgia)
Tonight was my final UGA basketball game of the season for The Associated Press. Given that, I wanted to do it right and knock out everything I felt I’d been lacking over the past few months. If only I’d been able to figure it out faster. First thing I did was be realistic, Georgia didn’t [...]
Big Hearts for Special People Pageant
Last Saturday I got to shoot a pageant for children with developmental disabilities. The first part of the assignment was to get photos of two participants who were getting ready at one of their homes and the second half was to go to the pageant itself. I really liked the photos when I first looked [...]
Play Ball! (Arizona vs Georgia)
Today was the first baseball game of the collegiate season. Georgia played host to Arizona which is ranked as the number 2 team in the country, at present. I hadn’t shot baseball in nearly 2 years and the last time I shot it I was using a Konica Minolta Maxxum 5d. Minolta hasn’t been making [...]
Barbershop (Not the movie)
Today I went to Wilson’s Barbershop. It is in the part of downtown Athens named Hot Corner (the coffee shop was named after it). Its the historically black area of town and given that I’d never been to a black barbershop before, I decided I wanted to shoot it. I’m not super-stoked about any of [...]
Variations on the Death of the Moon
As I’m sure many of you are aware, tonight was the lunar eclipse. I went out as it was just starting to play around with the RAW mode of my camera and see what I could come away with. Here are two variations of the same scene with some adjustments made in between. Which do [...]
1-2-Draw!
After class today I decided to venture out to see what I could find. As I was walking down Prince Avenue I spotted two people sitting at a table outside of Daily Groceries. When I got closer I saw that they were drawing and asked if I could shoot them for a bit. They agreed [...]
New Domain
I just purchased http://www.joshdweiss.com since it made more sense to have than the current domain which I bought before I’d started shooting regularly. Going to the old address should forward you to the new one, but you will want to update any bookmarks you have.
Life Imitating Art (Demosthenian’s Annual Impeachment)
One of the interesting thing I’ve noticed since I began shooting is that I begin looking at snapshot photos in entirely new ways. It hadn’t really become apparent to me until this weekend while I was attending The Demosthenian Literary Society‘s anniversary meeting. As a member, I was taking photos for myself so that in [...]
Vol-ted
These were from Saturday’s game against Tennessee. I didn’t submit them cause they didn’t need them, but I figured I’d post some anyway. Georgia’s Albert Jackson (34) goes for the layup.
