Rivadeneira paints her visions using a variety of photographic techniques. She photographs her subjects with a large format camera and uses both an old-fashioned paper negative process favored by master photographers such as William Henry Fox Talbot and a modern color film process.

Whereas large format color film negative achieves a sharp and detailed image, that negative printed on paper gives creates the option to produce a more ethereal image with a very visible grain. Other techniques, such as long exposure, printing with special pigments, and digital composite allows her to explore a more ethereal realm.  Using soft contours and blue tint tones, her female subjects evoke Victorian paintings as well as the pictorialism and cyanotype images of the early days of photography.