Nichelle Ryan
New York City
www.nickai.com
[email protected]


Field Experience
Digital, traditional, stock, sports, fashion, journalism, wedding, products, nature, portrait, concert and food photography

Professional Skills
Camera Knowledge: small, medium and large format cameras, digital: 35mm, 120mm, 4x5, 8x10, Nikon D500
Photography: Black and White Film Photography- numerous years shooting film, darkroom and development experience.
Color Photography- experience of color processing, numerous years shooting
Studio Lighting
Photo Equipment: Nikon Pro digital SLR’s; Canon, Praktica, and Minolta 35mm’s; Nikon, Canon, Minolta, and Pentacon Prime Lenses
Graphic Design: Photography, Color Theory, Photoshop, Traditional and digital printing

Computer Skills
Mac OSX, Adobe Creative Suite CS4/CS5 (Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design), Picasa, iPhoto, iMovie
Corel Draw, Paint Shop Pro, Picasa,
Windows 95/98/2000/XP
Microsoft Office 97/98/2000(Outlook, Excel, Word), WordPerfect 5.1/11, Iworks, Microsoft Works 6.0, Lotus Notes
Hardware: Mac and PC

Freelance Photography History
2011 –Yahoo.com - photojournalist contributor
September –present 2011-Shushpootle.com -currently videographer/photographer for up and coming web television site
July 2011 -Link2Us Magazine- Food Photography for family entertainment online magazine
January 2009- present 2011- Exude Magazine.com- on assignment to photograph fashion shows for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in tents, couture and studios and editorial fashion spreads.
2009- 2011 – Full time professional photographer for weddings, birthday parties, personal and family portraits, products, and fashion for various clients.
2003- 2009 – part time practicing photographer


Professional Organizations
The American Society for Media Photographers

Education
Art Students League
Studied Printmaking
New York, NY

Laguardia College
Studied Fine Arts/Commercial Photography
Long Island City, NY

Work Experience
Administrative Assistant (temp positions)
On the Marks Staffing –employment agency
January ‘04 to August ‘10
-Administrative support for various financial and fashion corporations.

EDI Control Analyst
Mamiye Brothers –Children’s Fashion Design Company
September ’06- December ’08
-Verified automatic processes for all inbound and outbound EDI (electronic data interchange), Biz Manager/Biz Connect and FTP AS2 transactions