15 posts tagged “photography”

What's that secret dream job you've always believed you'd be good at, but never gone for? 
Submitted by wedgeh.

Four years ago while I was head teller at a local bank, i would have quickly said Photographer!  Two years ago while I was working at a photo studio I would have said, Own My Own Studio!

I'm real excited when I look back and realize that I've been on my own for a full year now and we're still alive!  Looking forward, I believe I would be good at farming and natural building.  Hopefully in a couple years I can look back and see that we have moved into those areas as well!

~Ryeli Studios hasn't done much in the way of proactive marketing.  So much of photography is by word of mouth, yet every once and a while there's a brilliant idea that is too good pass up.  I just ordered these cards and am excited to step up our marketing by 100%!

We have a couple local jewelers that may carry our cards as a "thank you" to couples that purchase engagement rings.  I'm excited to start relationships like this as it's not only more couples coming through the studio but it's a great opportunity for the jeweler to give a great gift to the couple.  The couple then has a no-pressure way of seeing how we operate and the level of photography and service we provide.

These cards are very well printed, credit card thickness and come in the envelope shown.  Big things are on their way!

If you're locally in the area and would like to be considered for carrying these gift cards for your clients, please email me and we can see how it may be beneficial for the both of us.

Last night I had the pleasure to shoot something totally new for me:  Proposal Photography.  What a great idea!  Chris, a mutual friend of Rory & Sarah contacted me a few weeks ago and set up the session in secrecy.  Last night Rory was to propose to Sarah on the steps of Captiol in DC, i was there along with a bunch of friends and family.

Due to the hightened security after the crash in NYC the place was teeming with cops, some with semi-automatic weapons and there i was standing in one place, with a camera, not taking any pictures, just waiting.  I think the police presence just about doubled in the twenty minutes I was waiting for Sarah and Rory!

After the proposal the cops were all very nice and even let us go up on the balcony of the Capitol which has been blocked off since 9/11 for some more photo-ops.

I think this was a great idea, Chris did a great and thorough job planning everything and I hope to have opportunities to do Proposal Photography in the future!  To see all of Rory & Sarah's Proposal Images click here 

Jimmy & Arianne's images just went live after our viewing this afternoon.  If you want to view the images in the prettiest form I would suggest you check out Arianne and Jimmy's wedding album. You can view their album by clicking here.  If you're still craving more, you can check out ALL of their images over at our galleries.  You may also place an order through the gallery if there is an image you just must have!

I had a blast shooting this event, meeting so many great people and working in such beautiful locations.  I hope to see some of you again!

~Ryeli Studios is based in Annapolis, Maryland, focusing in wedding and portrait photography.  You can view more of my work on this site by clicking here.  Or on my website at ryeli.com  If you have any questions, or would like to book a session (I'll travel back to Texas!), please email me by clicking here or: Sean@ryeli /DOT\ com.  I look forward to talking to you!

Show us a cool shadow.

So, I spent about an hour go through my six years of digital photography... I have a bias with shadows apparently.  But trust me, the next wedding/portrait I shoot, I WILL break my standoff with shadows.  So why the aversion?  I think it goes back to high school level one photography... Shadows just seem so... photo scavenger hunt... Yet, now, ten years after high school, photo scavenger hunts sound like fun (umm... vox hunt?  yeah, i know)

Anyways... i WILL take this time to post the coolest video that i have shown all my friends and have personally watched a hundred times.  The photographer is John Michael Cooper of Alt-f Photography in Las Vegas.  The story is that he has a wedding package that he calls "zero"... with this zero package you relinquish total artistic control so that JMC can do whatever he wants. 

This is one of the results of that package, notice the ::ahem:: SHADOWS at the end.  Man, nothing has really inspired more than this movie... this is the ultimate in photographic creativity...  Check out more of his work, he is amazing... He specializes in the "anti-bridal session", I have an anti-bridal session coming up soon that I'm VERY excited about at an abandoned hospital from the sixties... can't wait!

::edit:: I've spent an hour or more waiting for the tags on youtube to propagate through so vox will pick it up in the video link area of here in vox... no luck yet... here's a direct link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btVCqvOEbMk
(this version, being on youtube is rather low-res and only does the real thing half justice... if you dig it and want to full res version, email me and i'll email it to you... i just don't have the bandwidth right now to host it myself.)

also check out this "Simple Photo Minute" where John Michael Cooper sets a bride's dress on fire... click here

Downtown Houston

After being here almost a week we finally made it out the suburb we've been staying in (Tomball, TX) and went into Houston.  We went to the "Downtown Aquarium", it was cheaper and SO much nicer than the Baltimore Aquarium.  It was smaller but half the price and INCREDIBLY welll taken care of.  They were open last night until 10p and we got there at around 8pm.  The combination of Houston not being very touristy right now and it being a school night we were the ONLY people in the aquarium... Eva was able to get out the stroller and do her thing, it was great for her.  Had i realized how freakin' cool the aquarium was i would have brought my real camera... but the point-n-shoot did pull off this one great image of the city skyline with the ferris wheel spinning.

I will still miss SONIC most of all... I'm sure i'd get sick of it very fast, it's probably best for us to have a long distance relationship.  I promise we'll KIT!  (umm.. ask an eighth grade girl... if you don't remember what KIT is.. although asking an eighth grade girl ANYthing might be seen as rather creepy).

The food here is amazing... Being so close to the border, mexican and tex-mex is a whole other world... Laura and I will usually go to the chain tex-mex restaurant when we actually get a date night back home... After eating here and tasting actually authentic tex-mex and mexican... it's going to be hard to go back to the imitation east coast stuff!

I can't wait to get into this wedding and edit and design their album... This might be the album i mass produce into sample "give-away" albums... we'll see how it turns out, but the images are incredible and in many different locations...  I'm going to also be shooting Arianne and Jimmy at an abandoned Hospital when we get back home.  It apparently was abandoned in the fifties when all the staff and patients got TB and died... The beds are still there along with many other creepy "ghost town" things... complete with paint peeling off the wall and broken windows.  I can't wait to shoot there, hopefully we don;t get kicked out!

In about six hours we'll be on a plane home to the nation's capital... Eva, Laura and Myself are all sick... probably due to the huge change in climate.

rattle rattle

My good friend from Maryland just emailed me... he was in Houston all weekend too.  Weird, I wonder why he was out here and what were the chances?

Yesterday was a blast, I had so much fun being with Jimmy and Arianne and all of their friends.  All of the locations were great, the lighting was perfect, the clouds were beautiful, it was ALL good.

I was shooting by a historic railroad station yesterday and i had Jimmy and Arianne over on the track and I was in some uncut grass... I heard a noise maybe 10 feet from me.  In my zone of getting the perfect shot, I didn't notice it at first until either the second or third warning... When I honed in on the sound I had never heard before in person (being a city boy from the east coast), it was definetly a rattlesnake.  Looking it up last night when I got back, I had no idea how MANY rattlesnakes were in texas:

There are fifteen (15) venomous snakes native to the state of Texas. These include one (1) coral snake, three (3) different copperheads, one (1) cottonmouth and ten (10) different rattlesnakes. To learn more about any of these venomous snakes, please select and click on the species you are interested in.

yikes.... i'm glad my day didn't end in the emergency room!

It's me!  I'm Sean... SethW brought me in and this is my first experimental post... will i stick around?  I've been using xanga since 2001 and although xanga is so very comfortable and has chronicled my life for years... I like the community idea and more control... and of course the web2.0... from the looks of this site so far, vox could be the poster child for web2.0 right down to the color scheme :o)

I'm a wedding and portrait photographer based out of Annapolis, MD.  In true wedding photographer style, I'm in a hotel room in Houston, Texas awaiting the start of what should be a great day and a great wedding.  I love going into a city that I know almost nothing about and stumbling upon wonderful places to shoot.  Today will be a good day.  My family and I will be here all week, if you're familiar with Houston, let me know some kid friendly places to go!

more information on me and my photography?  check out ryeli.com and xanga.com/ryeli

I'm excited to post these publicly.   Candice and Kaloug we married a little more than a week ago and are a perfect fit.  I have enjoyed knowing Candice for years and immediately enjoyed Kaloug and look forward to getting to know Him better.  If they just weren't so busy! :o)  Below are a couple samples of not only their images but new borders and actions we have implemented into our bag of tricks!

For more images and tricks from the bag, you can view Candice and Kaloug's wedding album by clicking here.  I love this album and can't wait to have a copy for myself!