Author: JessicaPulis

Next Stop First Grade (storytelling with project portfolio and oral presentation.)

We all grow up and grow old through life. There are so many big milestones in life from birth, your first steps in life, to first words. Then it becomes your first kiss, your first car and graduation into adulthood. Adulthood is a whole other journey. This story isn’t quite there yet. My middle child has just finished Kindergarten and is on to first grade. That’s two down and one more to go next year. One of the reasons I’ve always loved being behind a camera. I love capturing memories to look back on.

Ronald King III (Tre) My middle child is definitely going places in life.
Those firsts I was talking about are represented in this photo. He just lost his first teeth 2 days in a row. His two bottom teeth.
This photo represents his perseverance to learn through struggles. He learned to read this year and practices everyday.
He is officially a big boy so it was only right to pay homage to his baby photo.
Living life through the eyes of my kids keeps me focused and on my toes. It’s fun to stop and get down on a kids level and remember how fun life can still be.
He’s dancing his way into summer fun.
Kindergarten graduation is about walking into a new chapter of responsibilities as a kid.
How we kicked off summer in celebration of being a “big boy” jumping into deep ends.

Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon is a famous photographer who had many styles from fashion, to portraits, to capturing still movement in his photos. I found him by stumbling across a photo of Marilyn Monroe who I enjoy her beauty.

Below is some of his work I found that I was drawn too. It has so many levels at the same time being so basic in black and white. I’m drawn to his creativity in telling a story with a basic photo. He quoted, “A great photographer doesn’t need bells and whistles.”

Famous jazz musicians Louis Armstrong
Marilyn Monroe

I love Elephants so this photo stood out. It also shows how he was known as a photographer. he shot this photo for her Dior dress in Paris in 1955.

This was a beekeeper. I read a story about his dad’s farm and bee’s always being in his home.

Shoe by Perugia, Paris for Harper’s Bazar.

Robert Dixon, Meat Packer. I love this simple photo that captures the tan or dirt on his skin while also bringing out the sharpness and beauty in his eye.

P-2 Aperture and Shutter Speed studies

On this assignment I took 2 groups of photos that are moving subjects. I played with adjusting my aperture and shutter speeds to give different results like motion blur, motion freezing, and DOF with motion captured below.

S1/4000
ISO 3,200
F/1.8 

S1/60
ISO 6,400
F/22

S1/13
ISO400
F/11

S1/13
ISO400
F/11

S1/200
ISO3,200
F/6.3

S1/2000 ISO 3,200 F/1.8

S 1/50 ISO 3,200 F/10

S 1/15 ISO 3,200 F/22

P-1 Textures

Rough Textures in photography refer to images that capture depth, coarseness, detail and bring emotion or feeling to something basic like a pile of gravel that I photographed below. I shot different angles from my subjects and would aim my lens with the sun hitting on different sides. I realized that the direction of my light source played a big part on how my photos turned out. Being the direct light gave me more detail in my rough textured photos.

shutter1/2000 ISO200 F|2.8
shutter1/40 ISO3200 F|4
shutter1/3200 ISO200 F|4
shutter1/1000 ISO200 F|8

Smooth Textures are captured to show soft and smooth details in subjects. Having my subjects not directly in the light and angled helped me capture the smoothness in my photos below.

Facial texture is captured by adjusting lighting and aperture to capture the fine lines, bright eyes, and details in skin down to each strand on a person’s eyebrow. I played around with shining a light in front of my daughter’s face to get her eyes to brighten. I also adjusted the exposure and shadows on my son’s face to bring out any little bump or line he has on his face.