34th Street

34th Street in Baltimore... "Christmas Street"

Monica & Mike Wedding

Lang Family Portraits

Dress Code

The photography from the Dress Code project I completed last spring for my Theory class is now available in softcover book format for $32.00 through the Blurb Bookstore for anyone who would like a copy. Just click on the graphic below to see details, including a 15pg. preview of the book.

Dress Code

[ the photography ]

By Leah Rhianne

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New York City - December 09

Oh and I attempted my first HDR on a person. This was a random Italian guy in the subway who asked me about how I was able to get clear photos without using a flash down in the subway station. I took this photo as a test shot to show him then played with it in Photomatix when I got home.

Mannlein Family Portraits

Daniel & Ana Maria Wedding

Daniel and Ana Maria were married in Gaithersburg at St. Raphael Church.

Francis Family Portraits

Water

After our last meeting I went home and I googled "fine art": Fine art describes any art form developed primarily for aesthetics and/or concept rather than utility, art created for purely aesthetic expression, communication, or contemplation. Fine Art Photography refers to photographs that are created to fulfill the creative vision of the artist.

Well that didn't help much... haha. But I started to think about some of the themes we'd thrown around in our meeting and "water" kept coming back... so I was in the shower watching little drops of water roll down the plastic shower liner and I decided that I was going to shoot water. I started setting up various tests. I started with the shower curtain and then the faucet.. but those images are lost on the hard drive I idiotically dropped. They weren't as successful in my opinion as the images below anyways...

I set up a white background, a big glass bowl full of water and my strobes. Then I grabbed a turkey baster, started squirting water into the bowl and got shooting. I pulled them up on one of the macs in the studio to work on them and knew I had something special when a crowd of students formed around my station interpreting the various things they saw in the water drops.

I know there are a lot of images posted here but I can't decide on which I like the best. I think there's something pretty cool in each one of them...