Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Night exposures
The District sleeps alone tonight
after the bars turn out their lights
and send the autos swerving
into the loneliest evening.
So, I've wanted to shoot photos in this location since I moved here. This is about two miles from me. It's the corner where you can view the National Cemetary, the National Monument, the Capital, and the Air Force Memorial. It makes me happy to feel the history of where I live. I went out alone, was asked by one security guard why I was there, and there were 2 others who drove past and slowed down, and a K9 cop... overall, no one was shot (well, literally) and I made it home intact. All in all, a great photoshoot :) I want to go around downtown and do some late night exposures as well. I might actually revisit this spot as well, now that I have a new zoom lens!!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Another trip as a tourist :)
While Mom was here, we went to the National Indian Museum, the orchid exhibit inside of the botanical gardens, and also went to the National Geographic museum. The exhibit at the NG museum was the terracotta warriors. Since most of these places don't allow photographs, it was hard getting any, but I DID take a few. It was kind of rainy and gloomy the last 4 days of Mom's visit, but overall it was fun. We did lots of shopping, since malls don't really exist in the south (good ones, anyway) and then we did a lot of eating of crabcakes. We went to Mccormick and Schmidt, found a German bakery, and went up to G Street Farbics. I think she had a pretty good time with the shopping and crabcakes alone, without all the tourism things. But, the terracotta warriors was amazing to see, especially since I was within an arms reach of something that was created in 200 BC... wow. The National Geographic museum was pretty interesting, there was just enough writing to learn about the warriors and just enough things to see. The American Indian museum wasn't too great, but I guess there's just no main exhibit right now, I'll have to check it out when there's something going on. Well, that about summed up her trip to DC.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
chery blossom festival and kite festival
Saturday, March 27, 2010
cherry blossoms
Can't wait to spend all next Saturday shooting photos with Magin from Magin photography/Arlington Photography!!!!
I'm so happy to be interning for someone who is doing exactly what I want to do.
Cherry Blossoms were fun with Mom and Kris today. We had a great time. Will post more, way more creative photos soon!
Mom's visit...
We began the first day of our journey through DC to U street where we climbed 4 flights of steps to a rooftop restaurant that was called Tarbaq, it was awesome up there, here is a panoramic I did of the view of the place :) it was neat to see the tops of all the rooftops. I enjoyed all the different colors and textures.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
dont ask dont tell
for portfolio, I needed a themed piece.... so here it is.
Don't ask, don't tell (DADT) is the common term for the policy restricting the United States military from efforts to discover or reveal closeted gay, lesbian, and bisexual service members or applicants, while barring those that are openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual from military service.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
end of the quarter crazy...
It's been a little bit since my last post, no worries, I haven't forgotten about those avid readers of mine :) It's just been a crazy couple of days.
Lots of photographers are doing these "high pass" filters on different photots, so I tried my hand at it... they're not my style at all, but I thought they'd be fun to play with for a few things. Well, got my fix, back to working on my own stuff now. Yep, lots of work...I have two portfolios due this week, an 11 page business and marketing plan for my business and my webpage due.... so, have you checked out the webpage yet?
www.ktnicholsphotography.com
I think it's time you did!
Thursday, March 18, 2010
DC...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Shrinking World Series
Shrinking World Series by KT Nichols
To some, this may seem like a collaboration of portraits. To me, this is the world.
Some refer to the human web of social networking as the Six Degress of Separation, which is the idea that if a person is one step away from each person they know, then they are two steps away from each person known by one of the people they know, etc. This idea was popularized in a play by John Guare, but has been revisited in songs, movies, books and even the game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. After researching social networking, I discovered the studies done entitled the “Shrinking World” in 1929 by Frigyes Karinthy. He believed that the modern world was 'shrinking' due to this ever-increasing connectedness of human beings. He posited that despite great physical distances between the globe's individuals, the growing density of human networks made the actual social distance far smaller.
In creating this series, I set up the studio the same every time I had a model coming in, but once they were there, I decided to change the lights, turn them and move everything. I kept consistency with the dark background, using a hair light to show the outline of the figure. I enjoyed the emotion that shown through in the faces of the people without a smile. I would instruct the models to just “Look at me, and I’ll tell you when I’ll photograph you,” however, most of the time I would just snap a few photos of them just staring into the lens. I chose these unstaged facial expressions to express the truth behind their faces, not what the world may want to see or what they felt they needed to show.
The “Shrinking World” is exactly the way this series of photographs came together. Just moving back to the DC area after being away for 6 years, I was able to find subjects for my series through emails, phone calls, and text messages, I connected with lots of subjects. Some of the subjects I just met that day, some have known me my entire life and some I have known their entire life. Due to technological advances in communications and travel, friendship networks could grow larger and span greater distances, just as Karinthy hypothesized in 1929. Washington DC is a melting pot of different types of people: age ranges, nationalities, job titles, personalities and race, however we all communicate and all share the same common structure regardless of our social “labels”. This is why I chose to keep constants throughout the photographs to symbolize the connectedness; changing other factors because no two people are the same. I wanted to express connectedness and difference within my series.
This is my series. This is America. This is my world.
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