BACKYARD = RAIN MACHINE!

I have a photographer friend who built this rain machine that he found directions to online and loved it.  So simple and easy to make, so I built one myself and gave it a go.  The trick is to keep your talent happy with pumping warm water from you home faucet to the outside, I tried directly from outside faucet with my first test using this rain machine and the shoot ended in minutes!  Warm water = happy talent.  These images are from the shoot I did with the rain machine this week.  First pic is during lighting test and shows the set up in my backyard.

THE BLIND PROJECT VIDEO FEATURED ON YOUTUBE'S HOMEPAGE!

MUSIC VIDEO I WISH I WAS IN!

I stumbled across the most amazing and raw music video I have ever seen, please send me your music videos if you think something is better out there.  Not to mention I love the music as well.  I've watched this five times already today. 

HELI TEST FLIGHT DAY 1

I just received this sweet little EFLITE BLADE SR heli in the mail yesterday, today I went out to give it a maiden voyage in Golden Gate park with my buddy Josh Gruetzmacher.   First flight about 5 feet up and layed it down into the grass.... ouch! .... ok, deep breath... prop it back up.  Ready for second go, this time I give it a little more throttle to get up about 12 feet off the grown, it did a small circle around us as I quickly try to adjust and level her out, no use this thing loves gravity, and proceeds to do a spiral into the grass... smack!  Blades busted, and gear teeth stripped out, GAME OVER.  That was 2 minutes of fun, right?  Now ordering replacement parts and a set of training wheels for a helicopter.....

TREASURES FOUND!

Ok, so I'm a little bit of a junk yard scavenger.  A few days ago I was wondering my neighborhood when I noticed a huge cardboard box, the kind you used to cut up and make into a fort when we were kids.  A refrigerator box size... on the side was written "FREE" I love free things so a split second later I'm inside this box going to town pulling out old books with hard covers I kept putting aside magazines and national geo's from years ago.. and BAM I noticed a VOGUE magazine, pulled it up from the piles and trash, books and other lesser publications, its a 1979 VOGUE!!  I kept digging and digging only to uncover these four magazines.  Now I have a mini collection and keeping my eye out for any other strange looking boxes near that house where I stumbled upon these little gems.  To some its trash, I think its treasure.  :)

NEW CATEGORIES & IMAGES POSTED TO CHADRILEY.COM

These images are from an underwater series I shot earlier this year with a group of amazing dancers from the San Francisco Ballet.

MY DESKTOP

Just a quick view of my workstation from my office/studio.  I want to keep taking pictures of it as the months, years go by and see how it changes with computers, monitors, images on the board, etc....
Its always a work in progress and everyday something is moving, getting replaced with new inspiration or old ideas getting taken down.

TRIA BEAUTY IMAGES

Some more images from TRIA BEAUTY shoot.  Clean and crisp, white on white.

SONY MAKES WORLDS SMALLEST SLR!?!

Very interesting camera Sony just released the Sony NEX-5
Click to watch a short video about the Sony, reviewed by The New York Times.

Not that I'm going out to get one, but its pretty fun to see where the industry is heading as they change with the demand for better, smaller cameras for all consumer levels.  Then you can go the other route and get bigger and heavier and still have tons of demand for it such as the new EPIC camera from RED. If you don't know about RED yet, you should look into what they are dreaming of creating and have already put out some amazing cameras...  (just to show off... added a picture of me wielding the RED one, its a heavy beast!)

VINTAGE SWIMWEAR SHOOT 2010.

Here are a few images from a shoot I just wrapped on a couple weeks ago.  These suits are mostly one pieces so I tried to give it a little bit of an elegance and vintage feeling to the images.  I'm heading to New York City June 7th for another swimwear shoot, this time in the studio and different client. 

Three Year Anniversary! 5/5/10

This post is a little late for our anniversary but thought I would add a photo from our weekend getaway to my aunt & uncles cabin up in Shaver Lake, California.
Living with my best friend for three years, we have had so many adventures in such a short amount of time.  I'm so happy to be with my wife Christy and I love her more then I thought I was able to love.  This image was a random idea while driving through Sequoia National Park on our way back home to San Francisco.  I wanted to stop and shoot something with the trees and the light was going down soon...after awhile into the drive I thought how great and beautiful each tree was and so amazed at their age and height... "look at that one!" "look at that tree, its amazing!"  Then it hit me I'm sounding like a tree hugger... and now we have our tree hugging portrait shot with my 5D MK II on a tripod and a remote shutter release so we can both be some hippie tree huggers, we love trees!  Happy Anniversary to us.

Click on image to see larger facial expressions...its worth it. ;)

TRIA BEAUTY WEB IMAGE #2

New image on the homepage of Tria Beauty that I shot for their campaign and new product launch.  Keep your eyes open for them to hit a number of women's magazines this summer.
Model: Amanda  Agency: Look Models

Lakey Peterson Shoot

Just did a shoot with the amazing Lakey Peterson, 15 yr old pro-surfer.  She has so much energy and such a talented girl there isn't much this girl from Santa Barbara can't do.   Keep your eye on her to be all over the surf mags and headlines in the next few years.

American Eagle Shoot / Pittsburgh 2010

The American Eagle video crew (left to right:  Phil Anema, Chad Riley, Bradley Shaffer, Leanne Ford, Anthony Dodero) Now off to NYC for day 3.

AUTUMN CASHMERE

NYC client Autumn Cashmere.  Link to site here.

San Francisco Magazine / Style Counsel

Here are a few images from a recent San Francisco Magazine portrait shoot.  The subject is a local SF landscape architect, Andrea Cochran.  Thank you Misty Schmidt for helping assist me on this shoot.

PARIS SHOOT

Here are a few screen grabs from the final product of my shoot in Paris last month.
Shabby Apple.

Things I want and "need"...

This is something I have been slowing working on and will get to this point soon but major kudos to Eric Austin for setting this R/C Helicopter so nicely with a Canon 7D.   I need I want... 


Aerial video with a Canon 5D , 7D helivideo.com from Eric AUSTIN on Vimeo.

Fun in Paris

I just returned from a two week adventure in Paris, Switzerland and Barcelona.  Here are a couple images from our Paris shoot.

Blaise Rosenthal / Snowboarder & Artist

Last year I was able to take a few moments to spend with a good friend and amazing artist of life.
Blaise Rosenthal was known for years in the professional snowboard industry for his fluid and stylish spins and perfectly executed video parts.  Now he is taking his artistic style to the canvas.  This is a portrait from us sitting around his studio talking about "back in the day" snowboard stories.

Getting fans for The Blind Project!

Hey we need to reach at least 2000 fans on facebook... so please click here
Do your good deed of the day and help put an end to human trafficking and sex
slavery by becoming a fan of our Non-Profit on Facebook!!  Thank you.

Snowboarding in Argentina

Getting powder turns in August, what can be better?

THAILAND 2009 SWIMWEAR SHOOT

Here are a few images from a swimwear shoot in Phuket, Thailand.

This is for DiNeila Brazil.  Neila the owner is an amazing swimwear designer with loads of energy and creates high-end swimwear out of New York City & Brazil.  This shoot was so much fun hanging out in one of the most amazing places on earth with good people soaking in the sun!

TRIA BEAUTY SHOOT

Images from a recent campaign I shot are up online now at TRIA BEAUTY
More to come from this campaign as images start to hit the magazines and billboards soon...

7X7 Magazine

Here is a funky image that I did for San Francisco's local magazine 7x7.
This is Sara Kraft, a local SF performer who brings a little bit of everything to the table for her shows.
She mixes media like mix master mike.  A number of video cameras record her while she is on stage and projectors display the images at different times on large canvases or silks suspended on the the stage while she interacts with other images, lights and even herself via the pre-recorded or live at the event recordings.  I didn't do it any justice with my explanation but its very unique and intense.

Roof Top, NYC.

Camera Luv..

Forgot about this post from good friend and designer Jeremy Kennedy..
Gave me a little shout out awhile back... Thanks Jeremy!
Check out his site and amazing graphic designs and art work here: Jeremy Kennedy
http://www.cameraluv.com/
http://www.cameraluv.com/chad-riley-photography/
 

Fun with the 5D Mark II after a fashion shoot.

Model: Kacie Schiffer
Location: Studio, New York City

iphone movie

Filmed this short movie on my iphone of my buddy Phil Anema while on a hike with a few friends in Muir Woods just outside of San Francisco.  Enjoy! 

Recent Shoot in the Desert.

Thanks to Make-up Artist: Lucy Crawford & Digital Tech Guru: Pat Blewett.
Model: Sarah Walker

Swing Dancing in Camarillo, CA

A good friend of mine Sarah Breck is a professional swing dancer, she travels the world swinging and bopp'n. I had the pleasure to shoot a few images of her dancing with her swing partner Dax at the Camarillo Airport.
The airport was full of amazing vintage aircraft flying around all day as we danced on the tarmac.  Here is a sample of one late in the day shot.  I have to get more images up soon once I finish editing more.
Thanks to Make-Up Artist: Lucy Crawford and my wifee Christy Riley for putting up with me shooting on a rare weekend off together.

Golden Gate Park shoot.

These are some images from a shoot I did for a clothing designer out of NYC... I shot this
in Golden Gate park a couple months ago.. just going through images again, tons of images
to work with and re-visit.   Models:  Amanda Price & Camille Zajac from Look Model Agency.

Snowboard Lifestyle Shoot. (first time on the slopes in 2010!)

Went up to Lake Tahoe last week for a few days on the mountain.  Had a fun time
at Northstar's park and then found left over powder at Squaw Valley.  Did some shooting
of my friends and my buddy Seth did a little post of the images with his company
here at Venture Visuals.  Check them out...