by irene liebler | Mar 10, 2016 | personal projects, Portraits, Recent Work
Burning the Candle at Both Ends. We all do it. We push ourselves to extremes – meeting deadlines for clients, juggling multiple jobs, writing papers for teachers, studying for exams – often working into the wee hours of the night, getting little to no sleep....
by irene liebler | Nov 29, 2015 | Behind the Scenes, personal projects, Recent Work
I recently joined the North Haven Camera Club and participated in my first group competition – the theme was “Bottles”. Step one was finding some interesting old bottles, so I called my neighbors Lynne and Deb who used to own Azteca’s Restaurant in New Haven. Their...
by irene liebler | Nov 10, 2015 | personal projects, personal projects: video, Portraits, Recent Work
I recently helped my husband with a ukulele video where he wore his straw hat and freshly grown “Novem-beard”, so I thought it would be fun to photograph him as a cowboy. I used 2 lights: a beauty dish with a 30-degree grid on the left, and a medium softbox on the...
by irene liebler | Apr 26, 2015 | Project 52 Portraits, Recent Work
And now for something completely different! Mary Ellen Mark is a documentary photographer. Kind of voyeuristic. She comes from a time (not too long ago) when magazines would send her across the globe on assignment for 6 months or 3 years to document prostitution,...
by irene liebler | Mar 27, 2015 | personal projects, Portraits, Project 52 Portraits, Recent Work
Portrait Study: DAVID BAILEY This week’s featured photographer is David Bailey, a “problem” kid with dyslexia in 1960’s East London. After a series of dead end jobs, he served with the Royal Air Force in 1957 where he bought his first...
by irene liebler | Mar 27, 2015 | Behind the Scenes, personal projects, Recent Work
In early November of 2014, I had my first-ever opportunity to do a LIVE photo shoot at the North Haven Camera Club, to show how I put together a series of images to build a final image. The concept for my proposed image was about college, and whether it was worth it....
