My photo and digital artwork graces the cover of the Pittsburgh Penguins Legendary Moments brochure. The original artwork is displayed on the suite level of Consol Energy Center on 48″ x 70″ aluminum.
Legendary Moments Cover - Jeanine Leech, Artist
For more of my sports artwork, please visit jeanineleech.com
This August my friend and follow photographer, Perri K. Schelat, invited me to hike and photograph with her in Glacier National Park. Naturally, I jumped at the chance to spend 11 days in the park sharing my passion for photography with Perri. She gave an excellent tour – taking me to all the great photo hot spots in the park.
See my photos here.
Jeanine Leech and Perri Schelat
I just recently returned from a one-day photo workshop with Joseph Rossbach at Ricketts Glenn State Park. This park is famous for it’s 22 named waterfalls. The workshop had about 6 participants and we started at 7 am hiking along Ganoga Glen trail down to Waters Meet and back up Glen Leigh trail. We spent about 15-20 minutes at almost every waterfall, but towards the end we became waterfall snobs and didn’t photograph the ones that were less “attractive”.
Joe and few of the other participants got wet early and went right into the stream – looking for the best angle. One guy, I called him “billygoat” seemed to be always be hopping along the rocks to the other side of the stream. I was not so brave. It wasn’t until close to the end that Joe held my hand and encouraged me into the water. I managed not to fall and the shot was well worth the effort.
June 3, 2012: Triangle Cascades
It was long day, but was also a lot of fun and well worth getting a little wet! Thanks Joe.
MLB: APR 05 Phillies at Pirates
Received my first 5 out 5 stars and awesome words from ICON for my coverage the Pirates Opening Day….
Jeanine,
I just wanted to tell you how fantastic your live take was today…absolutely perfect! It has a beautiful General View, two great “Opening Day” shots, fans, hitting, pitching and fielding action, and a great “play at the plate”! This is the type of take that clients love; varied, beautiful and timely!
I want all of our Baseball shooters to see this! I want to point to it and say “see you can have a fabulous live take without submitting 100 images, or 20 headshots or 4 sequences!
Well done!!
Have a great night.
Elliot
Elliot Markman
VP Content & Operations
I just finished creating two new panoramic images from my fall trip to Colorado.
September 30, 2011: Mountain colors along Last Dollar Road
September 28, 2011: The Dyke, Kebler Pass
Dr. Lonny Harrison at Advanced Vision Care purchased these images for the lobby of his office in Bethel Park, PA. Both images will be printed on white hi-gloss aluminum at size of 20 x 58 inches.
Do you think the desktop publishing programs automatically create the look of professional typesetting? Well as good as InDesign and Quark are at handling type they don’t make the adjustments that a experienced designer will do to create a quality finished document.
Some of my personal pet peeves are the improper use of quote marks. All too often I see the inch or foot mark (straight marks) used instead of the proper curly-q mark. It goes both ways — how often do you see a numeric measurement with smart quotes instead of the straight inch marks? Drives me crazy!
In the beginning of my career I worked with a professional typesetter, where I learn it is the small details of typesetting that sets the pros apart. Things like spacing between paragraphs, quote marks and inch marks, spacing at the end of sentences, fractions and numeric symbols, etc.
For more on these details, here’s a great article from Smashing Magazine.
I just read this great article from Freelance Folder ….
While the author is a freelance writer, I think the benefits still apply to a graphic designer.
This is true in my case, if you do business with Double Play Designs, you are doing business with Jeanine Leech. There is no middleman and you will deal directly with me.
This may depend on the size of the agency and if the same designer is always working for the same client. The larger the agency the more likely it is not the same designer. As a freelancer, I will always be working on your project with attention to detail and consistency across different projects.
I can take on projects on short notice and complete them quickly. As a freelancer, I have the ability to juggle my schedule to suite the clients timeline.
We all know advertising agency’s charge big bucks. I on the other hand do not have all that overhead, but I do have agency experience. So with Double Play Designs you get an experienced designer at a reasonable rate.
Working one-on-one creates a strong customer and designer bond. As a single source design shop, you can trust in me to fulfill all your design needs.
On Sunday I went to Ohiopyle with fellow photographer and friend Perri Schelat. While I’ve been there several times, it was usually for biking. This time we went hiking in search of waterfalls. I consultant the Ohiopyle map several times as we hiked along the Sugar Run Trail, after about two and half miles we could hear the waterfall and see it through the trees. We thought about trying to climb down the hillside to the waterfall off in the distance, but decided to stay on the trail until it intersected with Jonathan Run Trail. From there it was short walk and down the rocks to be close to the waterfall. The sun was starting to peak out through the trees, but I managed to get a few shots before it became to bright and contrasty.
October 16, 2011: Jonathan Run Waterfall at Ohioplye
After looking at the map (again), we proceeded down Jonathan Run Trail in search of waterfall #2. We came to the biking trail and walked a short distance to Mitchell Trail. We proceeded up the trail along side the waterfall, until we found a nice spot to get close and as Perri says “down in there”.
October 16, 2011: Mitchell Trail Waterfall at Ohioplye
I could tell from the map it would be a climb back to the parking lot along the Mitchell Trail. 400+ steps – 300 feet up in quarter mile, and a sore hamstring later we climbed until the trail leveled off – somewhat. Another few miles and we arrived back at the car and ready for lunch.
We had lunch in Ohiopyle and head to Cucumber Falls. The parking lot was full so I knew there would be plenty of people there. We were pleasantly surprised to see a lot of water going over the fall. We climbed “down in there”, avoided the sightseers, and captured a nice image of the fall.
October 16, 2011: Cucumber Falls at Ohioplye
It was a good day at Ohiopyle and I’m glad to discover new waterfalls. Next time, I will pack the camera bag lighter and be prepared for the hike!
Nancy Rotenberg with Jeanine Leech at Babcock Mill
Back in the early days for her career, I was lucky enough to travel with her and photograph beside her – soaking in her knowledge and mostly her spirit. We spent hours behind our cameras capturing reflections – dancing inside as the light danced on our images. A happy dance.
There was my first trip the Adirondacks, where Nancy, Michael, mom and I spent a few days photographing together. It was truly special. Thanks to Nancy, I discovered “magic light” in those mountains. I love that place and I think it is because of Nancy and the memories I have of being with her. She taught me to go beyond the handshake and capture the essence.
Boot camp – that was my first workshop in Zion. I was young and unaware of what a workshop would be like. Up at 5 am are you kidding me? Well me with wet hair and all – headed out pre dawn to capture magic. I recall several tripod legs interlocked around one puddle as we all discovered magic in one small place. It was photographic bounding. Surprisingly we all had different images. Nancy influence to find our own creative voices, indeed.
I look around my home and see her influence everywhere. Yes, I have a few of her images, but I see her spirit in my own work and life. She changed me, brought me out of my shell and let me be the creative artist I always wanted to be. She taught me so much about life – all with a loving hug and comfort that only Nancy could provide. She gave me wings to fly.
I owe my photography career today to her. While, she didn’t teach me sport photography, she give me the life lessons and photographic skills I needed to pursue my dream. She was a very unique and special person. I miss and love her.
Thank you, Nancy.
Jeanine
Jesus Christ Superstar
The last two days I photographed “Jesus Christ Superstar” for the Pittsburgh CLO. It was a fun and different experience from photographing hockey pucks, baseballs, and footballs. Neither is easy but there are some similarities. With sports you are trying to capture peak action along with reaction photos. The theater is the similar, in that you look for “peak” moments in the story and expressive facial gestures. Both events tell a story and it is my job to tell that story with still images.
The theater has it’s challenges though – the light is constantly changing and the spot light is often harsh on the featured actor. I constantly adjusted my exposure, sometime only a 1/3 of stop, but others required several stop variations within a few seconds as the light changed. I’m very thankful to have a Nikon D3 and its wonderful ability to provide high-quality, low noise images at high ISO.
All in all, it was an enjoyable experience and I’m glad to have the opportunity to fill in for Matt Polk at the CLO.
See some of my images here.
